The Kansas City Healthcare Communicators Society (KCHCS) is dedicated to assisting communicators who work in or have an interest in the health care field continue their professional development by increasing their understanding of the industry and their role in it.
In today's highly competitive and fast-changing health care world, KCHCS provides members with a unique opportunity to collaborate with their peers throughout the Greater Kansas City area.
Benefits include educational programs that are offered to members through luncheon or breakfast meetings, as well as at an annual half-day seminar. While topics often focus on the communicator's role in a changing health care industry, programs also include more general marketing and communications topics. In addition, KCHCS offers unique networking opportunities through social activities.
For more information contact KCHCS president Jessica M. Salazar at (816) 346-1346; or KHA liason Cindy Samuelson or MHA liason Beth Morell.
KCHCS Is Accepting Membership
Applications for 2012
Download the KCHCS 2012 Membership Application and share it with others you think would be interested. We are increasing our membership dues as of April 1, 2012, to $50 for a year's membership. If you pay your membership dues before April 1, 2012, you will be charged the previous rate of $40. Also new this year, at our August general meeting, we will raffle a free attendance to the KCHCS 2012 Fall Conference. We are looking forward to a great year!
Make sure to mark your calendars for the KCHCS educational presentations in 2012 . Our first event of the year is:
Marketers: Prove Your Value!
Susan Kaufmann
Vice President Marketing and Public Relations
HCA Midwest Health System
Susan Hakes Kaufman is Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations for HCA's MidAmerica Division, which spans 18 hospitals in Missouri, Kansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. The division also includes HCA Midwest Health System, the largest health system and the largest private sector employer in the Greater Kansas City area.
Susan has more than 23 years of health care marketing experience, mostly in the academic medical center realm. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism where she completed a science journalism fellowship. Susan has received numerous awards for health care crisis communications, advertising, writing, publications, internal communications, events and physician relations programs.
Wednesday, February 15
3:30 p.m. Appetizers
4 p.m. Meeting Begins
Grinders West
415 East 18th Street
Kansas City, MO
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