Member Survey
Educational programs, Community Initiatives, meetings
Background:
The legal regulations of health related industries continues to expand, limiting commercial sponsorship of educational programs and meetings. Our chapter has been trying to find ways to keep our membership programs exciting, informative, and enjoyable. We, as a chapter, can not charge dues for chapter membership. This leaves us with no set way to raise money. When we have speakers for our programs, we offer a gift valued at $50 which comes from the $5 fee we charge for the quarterly meetings. We can also get the AV equipment free of charge. The meeting locations normally do not cost us anything, though their costs are absorbed by the meal fee. The meals generally run $35-$55/person, after the gratuity and taxes are added. There is limited space in Charlottesville to hold meetings for 25-45 attendees. They consist of a very few restaurants or locations at the hospitals. I think it becomes evident the difficulties the chapter leadership has been facing. We are trying to obtain grants for our programs. However, a lot of companies do not want to pay out $2-3000 for a program lasting 2 hours. It took 4 sponsors to hold our February program. At that rate, you run out of sponsors pretty fast. With this as background information, please give us your input on the following options. We want the answers that would keep you coming to the meetings, so please be honest as to what motivates you to attend our programs.
1. What options would you consider for meeting times? (circle all that apply)
a. weekdays b. Saturday mornings c. weekday lunchtime d. other (specify)
a. 5-7pm b. 6-8pm c. 7-9pm d. 8a-10am e. 10am-12pm f. 1200-2pm
2. Which venues are acceptable to you for our membership programs?
a. hospital conference or class rooms b. restaurants
3. Does the program need to include food?
a. yes b. no
4. Would food other than supper be an acceptable alternative?
a. breakfast b. lunch c. hor d'oevres d. snacks e. beverage only
5. Is catering an acceptable choice?
a. meal boxes are OK b. Ok as long as served as a buffet
We will continue to try and present the best possible program and venue we can for our meetings. If you have suggestions or can offer any choices, please contact one of the officers at noted below.
One of our chapter goals is to support efforts to reduce heart disease with community programs. Though we are not yet in a position to offer our own programs, we have been involved in participating in efforts of other organizations. Which programs do you support for our community involvement efforts? Place a check mark next to the programs you would support by your willingness to be a
- 1. Remote Area Medical (RAM)-presented by Audrey Snyder at the February meeting, this program serves the medically under-served residents primarily in southwestern Virginia. Both MJH and UVA have teams which they send down to the RAM clinics to help staff the programs.
______a. July 3 day clinic ______b. Oct weekend clinic
- 2. Albemarle County Fair health screening. Fair runs in Sept each year. _______
- 3. Day of Caring Oct _____
- 4. suggestion for our own program_____________________________________
Officers:
Suzanne Fuhrmeister email spf2cr@virginia.edu
Cherie Parks email CLM4S@virginia.edu
Reginia Stottlemyer email ROS9Q@virginia.edu
Karen Coleman email KGC3C@virginia.edu
Stephanie Searnock email SDH2V@virginia.edu
