Today’s guest is Kelly Sutton, RN, BSN, MHL, CCDS, CCS, the CDI educator for Providence Health and Services—Oregon. Today’s show is part of the “Conversations with Karla” series. In every episode of this series, Product Coordinator and Editor Karla Kozak is joined by a guest who’s behind one of ACDIS’ most popular and exciting educational offerings to share their expertise. 

Our intro and outro music for the ACDIS Podcast is “medianoche” by Dee Yan-Kay and our ad music is “Take Me Higher” by Jahzzar, both obtained from the Free Music Archive.

Have questions about today’s show or ideas for a future episode? Contact the ACDIS team at [email protected].

CEU info:

Each ACDIS Podcast episode now offers 0.5 ACDIS CEUs which can be used toward recertifying your CCDS or CCDS-O credential for those who listen to the show in the first two days from the time of publication.

To receive your 0.5 CEUs, go to the show page on acdis.org, by clicking on the “ACDIS Podcast” link located under the “Resources” tab. To take the evaluation, click the most recent episode from the list on the podcast homepage, view the podcast recording at the bottom of that show page, and click the live link at the very end after the music has ended. Your certificate will be automatically emailed to you upon submitting the brief evaluation. (Note: If you are listening via a podcast app, click this link to go directly to the show page on acdis.org: https://acdis.org/acdis-podcast/cdi-educator-roles-part-2-provider-education)

The cut-off for today’s episode CEU is Friday, October 13, at 11:00 p.m. eastern. After that point, the CEU period will close, and you will not be eligible for the 0.5 CEUs for this week’s episode.

Today’s sponsor:

In lieu of a traditional ad, we want to make sure all our listeners are aware of an exciting change that took place last week: HCPro, the parent company of ACDIS, has been acquired by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). You may be wondering what that means for ACDIS. The good news is that nothing is changing with our leadership and staff, with our membership benefits or education offerings, with the CCDS and CCDS-O certifications, or with our mission and vision for the association. Laurie Prescott, ACDIS interim director, and Rebecca Hendren, ACDIS director of programming, will continue to run ACDIS, along with all the wonderful people you know and love, including our best in the world instructors and editors. For answers to the questions you may have, read this article from Hendren: https://ow.ly/3z4050PUORT

ACDIS update:

Register for the 2024 ACDIS national conference, which takes place April 8-12, in Indianapolis! (https://ow.ly/3GEu50PQMLO)