Executive Board Meeting July 20, 1998
Saint Joesph Hospital, Lexington Kentucky

Posted: 07.21.98
Last updated: 01.29.08

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Attendees

Present

John Isfort, President

Jodi Hignite, Vice President

Dennis Kiper, Vice President

George Glessner, Secretary

Absent

Walt Middleton, Treasurer

Call to Order

A quorum was present and the meeting was called to order by John Isfort a 6:06pm local time

Membership

A discussion was held on improving membership, which currently stands at 34. It was decided to try to obtain membership benefits such as discounts on conferences and certifying courses. It was also decided to try to market the associate memberships. The newsletter was discussed as one membership benefit that needs to be regular in its printing and mailing.

Other items discussed were updating the to include a generic logo for letterhead and a lapel pin.

Newsletter

The next newsletter will be ready for mailing August 1, 1998. An editorial calendar and submission categories were decided on.

  • Editorial Calendar
    • 12/1/98 mailing, Submission deadline 11/16/98
    • 3/1/99 mailing, submission deadline 2/15/99
    • 7/1/99 mailing, submission deadline 5/18/99
    • 9/1/99 mailing, submission deadline 8/17/99
    • 12/1/99 mailing, submission deadline 11/17/99
  • Newsletter Feature Articles
    • Program Profile
    • Safety/Aviation
    • Government Issues
    • Clinical
    • Misc. Filler Articles
      • Public relations techniques
      • Marketing/Management issues

It was decided that advertisements would be sold in the newsletter to offset publishing costs.

KyAAMS will purchase Microsoft Publisher 98 for editing and printing of the Newsletter. Jodi Hignite will be the Editor of the newsletter by virtue of her Vice Presidency position.

Air Medical Transport Run Form

A committee will be formed, chaired by George, to develop the Ky. State Air Medical Run Form and to determine the dataset elements required by KY.

Safety Video

Andre Kinney of UK's Audio Video Radio & TV department will film and edit the safety video. The only cost will be editing time, which PHI has agreed to donate monies to help cover the cost. The script will be developed after input has been received from all programs.

Safety Congress

It was agreed to hold a safety congress or seminar in Ky. in November of December of this year. The agenda will be 8hrs and include a presentation by someone such as Michelle North, Rocky's national safety expert.

Logo Items for Sale

It was decided to begin credit card sales and to include merchandise on the web site. A new logo depicting the Statcare program addition and removal of Skycare and Statflight needs to be created. Jodi will get slides and pictures to John.

Old Business

There was no old business

New Business

It was decided that an executive board meeting would be held before every other regular meeting 2hrs before that meeting.

Adjournment

The meeting was adjourned at 7:10hr local time

The next executive board meeting will be at 5:30pm ET at Statcare in Louisville.