CMS Board sets 2014-2015 work plan

Friday, September 26, 2014 07:55 AM

CMS’s organizational excellence goal statement states that CMS will be a well governed, effectively managed, fiscally sound organization that meets the needs of a diverse membership in a rapidly changing environment. Striving to meet this goal statement, the CMS Board of Directors met on Friday, Sept. 19 to review the activities of CMS in fiscal year 2014-2015 and adopt a work plan for the upcoming year. The plan will continually evolve to incorporate direction by the House of Delegates and to adapt to new situations and opportunities as they arise.

The work plan is directly tied to the CMS strategic plan - which was updated earlier in the year and approved by the House of Delegates at the Annual Meeting - and, where noted, previous BOD and HOD actions.

Internally, the work plan outlines how we intend to upgrade and repurpose communications to our physician constituencies, streamline our administrative and governance functions, and boost our outreach to medical students and other component societies. Externally, the plan top-lines how we intend to engage and respond to the game-changing issues already in play - Medicaid Reform, repealing the SGR, and maintaining our relatively stable liability climate - and those that are coming online, such as Colorado’s new Commission on Affordable Health Care and the federally grant funded initiative to integrate physical and behavioral health.

“Veterans of this extraordinary work on behalf of medicine understand that the words on these pages don’t convey what will be required of our advocates and volunteer physician leaders in terms of grace, magnanimity, diplomacy, risk taking, and consensus building under both internal and external pressure,” said CMS President Tamaan Osbourne-Roberts, MD.

During the meeting in Vail, the board broke into three groups to discuss in detail physician well-being and success, health care systems evolution, and organizational excellence. For each work plan item, members reviewed the proposed goal, the proposed objective and the proposed strategy, and then assigned a level of importance. They presented each item to the full board and approved the plan.

Click here to view the 2014-2015 work plan.