Help Us Celebrate
65 Years of
AARC!
The American Association of Respiratory Care will be celebrating its
65th birthday this summer. As a way to wish them a happy birthday,
we are challenging therapists across Kansas to enter a photo contest.
Photos will need to include something that represents respiratory
care in Kansas and the number "65".
Prizes will be awarded to the top 3 photos. Photos will be judged on
creativity & theme. Entries must be emailed by March 15, 2012 midnight.

Click HERE for more information and a sample picture

 

If you get your creative juices flowing early you can also submit your photos to the AARC by February 15 for additional prizes check out their "FUN with 65"

Meg Trumpp receives the 2011 Outstanding Affiliate Contributor Award at this year’s AARC Convention

Check out the CEU page under the Educate Tab

or click HERE

 

MSRC District IV and
KRCS Chapter 1
Annual Seminar 2012
Joint Meeting in Kansas City
March 2, 2012
KCI Expo Center
Robert Kacmarek PhD FAARC confirmed speaker

Flyer

Brochure

Registration

 

New Bylaws

Chapter presidents replaced by Trustees

New Board Members

Visit the About us pages and the Board Member Pages

Adopt-A-Company

AARC is partnering with DRIVE4COPD for a Year 2 campaign that will help shape the health of Americans

 

A project called Adopt-a-Company will bring respiratory therapists in contact with local businesses to help them understand how COPD affects their work force and what they can do to make a difference.

Begin now by identifying a company in your local area. You adopt them and give them health information, schedule an on-site screening this fall, and provide them with important information that will help bring a focus on COPD to their wellness programs and health risk assessments

 

Visit the AARC website to find out more

Join the DRIVE4COPD campaign and make a difference

Newman Hospital in Emporia Adopt-a-Company ativities
More information Here

Click Here to visit the Manhattan, KS Country Stampede site that took place June 23-26, 2011

DRIVE4COPD
Pictures from the Wichita River Festival Parade June 3, 2011

 

Click here to review are new Bylaws

MSRC District IV and
KRCS Chapter 1
Annual Seminar 2012
Joint Meeting in Kansas City
March 2, 2012
KCI Expo Center
Robert Kacmarek PhD FAARC confirmed speaker
Flyer
Brochure

 

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The 35th Annual
State Meeting
Topeka, KS
April 18 - 20, 2012

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The 36th Annual
State Meeting
Wichita, KS
April 10 - 12, 2013

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Visit the CEU page for other CEU opportunities

Letter From Bill Dubbs "Refining Time Standards

It was good to see many of you in Vail recently. While there I updated the House of Delegates on several important items. One of the most important is the update of the AARC Uniform Reporting Manual which is presently in process and will conclude in late 2011 or early 2012. In light of the intensifying use of industry consultants hired to improve profitability, the availability of productivity tools that accurately measure workload intensity to managers is vital. These tools use time standards based on relative value units and can accurately determine appropriate staffing levels, assist in budgeting and serve as the foundation of benchmarking. The AARC needs the assistance of the state societies to help make sure the time standards reported in the 2010 AARC Uniform Reporting Manual are rock solid and unassailable. This can happen if managers of respiratory care services have developed solid time standards and contribute that information via the surveys that will be conducted this fall.

Free AARC Resources for Developing or Refining Time Standards

In anticipation of the surveys to come, now is the time for managers to review or develop time standards for services. To assist them the AARC is providing a new resource center on its website. This Productivity and Time Standards Resources center contains 3 concise documents:

• "Productivity Systems-The Importance of Accurate Time Standards"- This document explains the commonly used productivity systems and metrics used to support staffing decisions. It explains why metrics used commonly by consultants cannot accurately define staffing levels required for respiratory therapy services and provides rationale for a system based on relative value units.

• "Developing Time Standards-Collecting Data"- This document provides a step-by step approach to gathering the data required to develop time standards. It also contains discussion on the importance of getting buy in from administration in development and adoption of time standards.

• "Statistical Methodology For Developing Time Standards" This reference document provides basic statistical information to assist in developing valid time standards from the collected data.

These resources will hopefully encourage managers who currently have time standards to selectively evaluate the need for updating them. We also suspect that since we have not previously asked the managers of non-invasive cardiology, sleep laboratory services, hyperbaric medicine and pulmonary rehabilitation services to report time standards they may have not yet developed them and will find these resources useful. You may download these documents at: http://www.aarc.org/resources/standards_development/

Please Share These Resources

Please use all communication channels available within your state to make your colleagues responsible for hospital inpatient services, non-invasive cardiology, sleep, pulmonary function testing and blood gas laboratories, wound care and HBO centers, and pulmonary rehabilitation services aware of the availability of these free resources.

Please consider using your state society website, any internet networking communities, local communities of special interest to managers within your state. We want to get this information to all managers regardless of their AARC membership status. You will find a Productivity and Time Standards Button for your website at http://www.aarc.org/affiliate_web_design/ Please help us by seeing that this button appears on your state society website homepage as soon as possible.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Bill Dubbs dubbs@aarc.org

Articles from Local News Papers

Transport Training at NWKTC

 

Emporia Gazette

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