CENTRAL DISTRICT
NEW YORK PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TRANSITION MEETING
June 7th 2017
This meeting was held at the Recovery Sports Grill in Verona, NY. The meeting commenced at 7:15 pm. Attending members of the executive committee included Jonathan Small (Director), Brittany Simpson (Co-Chair), Maureen Mancuso (Co-Chair), Amy DeBlois (Vice Chair), David Hawley (Corresponding Secretary), Jen Collis (Recording Secretary), Ken Stack (Treasurer), Kevin Neville (outgoing Nominating Committee member), Shelly Nunno-Evans (Nominating Committee), Staci Dudden (nominating committee), and Michelle Cooney (incoming Nominating Committee member).
· New/outgoing officers
o Kevin Neville – finishes term in nominating committee
o Michelle Cooney – new nominating committee officer
· Updates
o Spring Board Meeting updates from Jon
§ Working on changing current direct access laws
· Would like to change 10 visit/30 day limit
· Reduce 3 year clinician experience policy to 1 year
§ Changes in format of lobby day
· Not to have a specific designated day but to get in front of legislators all year round
· Also trying to “profile” legislators to see what their ties to PT are.
§ Re-established Student Special Interest Group (SIG)
· Unknown that there was a Facebook group with the NYPTA logo on it.
· Facebook group made invite only
o District Chairs’ Meeting
§ Membership
· Idea of student liaison to the district
· Have a student who is a liaison for 3 years, be able to communicate with all students but then would ideally stay in the area upon graduation
· Last one known was Alison Poetzch, not sure if there is one now
· Maybe use SIG as vehicle to go through to identify a student
§ CEU Approval process problems
· CEU approvals have been quicker
· Many districts are paying speakers
· Presenters who present earn more CEU’s than those given out to attendees, as there is lots of work involved in being a presenter as they have to submit course learning objectives.
o This would be a good way to market the perks of being a speaker
· All in agreement to keep our speakers on a volunteer basis
§ Release of liability for lab courses
· NYPTA looking into developing release of liability forms for hands on labs
· This came up because of a vestibular course in a different district
§ Join Me versus other free options
· Chapter has free options, but may need to coordinate with Gloria or Kelly
· May be easier to keep JoinMe.
· Ken suggested coordinating with other districts and sharing cost of JoinMe ($250) with other districts and to network.
o Maureen will ask if others are interested
o 2017 Delegate Assembly
§ Jim Smith elected to NYPTA Nominating Committee
§ Adam Rufa, Mike Tisbe selected for 2018 HOD
· Jim Smith alternate
· Need another alternate, Dave will send out another e-mail
· Bylaws and Policies/Procedures
o Amendments – is there someone in the chapter who could be looking at them to edit?
o Filling positions in the middle of a term
§ This should be updated, as it has been 6 years since they have been updated.
§ Maureen will update and send it out to all district members for a period of comments, also look into what needs to be done on a chapter level here
§ Kevin suggests going to the chapter bylaws to check
o Paying for courses
§ Dave suggests looking into getting a Square, people at home could input their information versus sending in checks.
§ Should ask NYPTA if there are better ways to collect money, as they are willing to help with registration
o Elections/transition of new officers
§ Many districts change over at the end of delegate assembly (May 1st)
§ Need to change what we do as it is very antiquated
· 2018 HOD Designated Delegate
o Due June 30th, with 2 alternates
· Yoga Course
o Ken’s update: Cross Country education does not exist anymore, BYNE education took the company over.
§ Ken has checked out other vendors but need to go through NYPTA list of approved vendors
· Approved vendors on the office of the professions website
§ Upstate is one of these approved vendors and was willing to host Yoga course
§ Course likely not a reality for September, but we should still move forward with it as the district members have mentioned wanting a Yoga course
§ Ken/Jon suggest making a subcommittee for Yoga course
· Ken, Jon and Brittany will work on the yoga course as a subcommittee
· 2 week deadline for this (end of June)
· Next year schedule
o Topics and Possible Presenters
§ Pediatrics
· Reach out to Melissa Murphy for pediatrics and acute care
· Kevin’s wife involved in Adaptive Design Association
o involves family in completing low cost equipment for children who need it
· Erin Wentz, new Upstate pediatrics professor willing to speak on tummy time
§ Women’s health/refugee women’s health
§ Spinal Cord Injury
§ Concussion
§ Jon – Spine? In 2018
§ Feldenkrais – Jan Coy?
§ Kevin - new CPG (developed by PT’s and published in PTJ) for DVT and PE (potential for March 2018)
§ Kyle Adams – wanted to do pain, but maybe something else as pain was recently a topic
§ Dave send out another e-mail asking for volunteers to present or topics
§ Ken brought up having a membership meeting regarding direct access
o Locations
§ Ask presenters where they would like to present
· Membership Liaison
o Staci has been keeping up with new members, wondering if she should be forwarding e-mails on
o Maureen reports contact info is automatically added on to district e-mail list.
· Date for next meeting
o Look into presenters, and communicate via e-mail
Meeting adjourned at 8:35pm.
Respectfully Submitted by:
Jennifer Collis, PT, DPT
NYPTA Central District Recording Secretary