WSIA
Regional Meetings & News
Please Note: Our new Regional Meeting structure is explained at the bottom of this page.
Upcoming Regional Meetings
Date: Wednesday February 1, 2012
Time: 9:00-11:30am
Topic: Ethics - What Claims Managers and Employers Should Know
Speakers: Sherry Davies, Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara LLP
Maureen Larson, Maureen Larson Consulting
Chris Fowler, Sedgwick CMS
Location: Valley Medical Center
Auditorium
400 S 43rd St.
Renton, WA 98055
Please RSVP to kari.heinold@wsiassn.org if you plan on attending
Date: Wednesday February 1, 2012
Time: 12:45-3:15pm
Topic: Ethics - What Claims Managers and Employers Should Know
Speakers: Sherry Davies, Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara LLP
Maureen Larson, Maureen Larson Consulting
Chris Fowler, Sedgwick CMS
Location: Allenmore Hospital
Basement Classroom
1901 South Union Ave
Tacoma, WA 98405
Please RSVP to kari.heinold@wsiassn.org if you plan on attending
Date: Wednesday February 8, 2012
Time: 9:00-11:30am
Topic: Ethics - What Claims Managers and Employers Should Know
Speakers: Chariti Callahan, Brentwood Services
Drew Dalton, Ford Law Offices
Cory Turner, Vocational Connections, Inc
Location: Northeast Washington ESD #101
4202 South Regal
Spokane, WA 99223
Please RSVP to kari.heinold@wsiassn.org if you plan on attending
Date: Wednesday February 15, 2012
Time: 9:00-11:30am
Topic: Ethics - What Claims Managers and Employers Should Know
Speakers: Jan Donley, J. Donely and Associates LLC
Jim Gress, Law Offices of Gress and Clark, LLC
Craig Stone, Intermountain Claims, Inc.
Location: ESD #112
2500 NE 65th Ave
Vancouver, WA 98902
Please RSVP to kari.heinold@wsiassn.org if you plan on attending
Date: Wednesday February 22, 2012
Time: 9:00-11:30am
Topic: Ethics - What Claims Managers and Employers Should Know
Speakers: Neil Bennett, OSC Vocational Systems
Mandee Hewitt, Sedgwick CMS
Erin Sullivan-Byorick, Vandeberg, Johnson & Gandara LLP
Location: Community Transit
7100 Hardeson Rd.
Everett, WA 98203
Please RSVP to kari.heinold@wsiassn.org if you plan on attending
Date: Friday March 9, 2012
Time: 8:00am-2:45pm
Topic: Navigating Your Way Through Complex Medical Issues
Speakers: Garrison Ayars, MD
Kelly Early, ESD 113
Glenn Hansen, MultiCare Health Systems
Becci Merritt, RN
Jan Moss, R.N., GENEX Services, Inc.
Betsy Reeve, Reeve Shima, PC
Location: Jackson Hall Medical Center
314 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Tacoma, WA 98405
Directions to the Jackson Hall Medical Center: From I-5, take the City Center exit onto I-705. Follow directions to Schuster Parkway, exiting on Stadium Way. Turn right onto Stadium Way. Follow approximately ½ mile, turning left onto Division Avenue. Continue on Division for five blocks. Turn left on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Jackson Hall will be on your right.
Please RSVP to kari.heinold@wsiassn.org if you plan on attending
Note: For those of you who had not heard, at the Business meeting at the May 2010 Annual Conference, the Employer members of the Association voted to change the Bylaws. The Bylaws changes reorganized the Board of Directors to provide for two directly elected Associate members to the nine-member Executive Committee (Vice President at Large – Service Companies, and Vice-President at Large – Associate Members), and appointment of a number of Associate members to other positions on the Board. We believe the changes will make the Board, and the Association, more responsive, more timely and more dynamic to issues that arise.
In order to better coordinate the Association’s priorities and messaging, the new position of Vice President of Education was created. Grace Casey of Valley Medical Center was elected to the position at the May 2010 meeting. She works with the Chair of the Industrial Insurance University Board of Regents Liz Fischer of Sedgwick CMS, Conference Coordinator Patrick Koenig of City of Redmond, and Regional Coordinator Gail Pearson of Coventry in relation to presenting our training, conferences, and regional meetings respectively.
While our training and conference processes have not changed substantially, our regional meeting structure has. We no longer have 6 regions or regional directors. Instead, we have been identifying geographically diverse cities in which to hold regional meetings. When a particular topic is to be presented, meetings will be coordinated in a number of those cities so that as many people as possible can benefit from the presentations. As we have previously, we will also be submitting the content for the regional meetings to the Department of Labor & Industries for Certified Claims Administrator Continuing Education Credits.
