President's Message
Welcome to the Massachusetts Society of Healthcare Risk Management
MSHRM President Message
September 2026
A Shared Vision – A Common Goal
With September seen as the season of “natural renewal,” I hope you are planning on renewing your MSHRM membership. To support our members, the MSHRM Board has established a NEW FLAT rate that includes the annual membership dues AND fees for our semi-annual Educational Conferences. Under the direction of Surabhi Saxena, we continue to offer our Collaborative Calls, providing one (1) CEU per call, again at no cost for members.
Effective with our 2026 membership renewal drive, starting September 29th, Active Member (voting member) membership dues are $100. Yes, that is not a typo. $100.
Why this change? The MSHRM Board has heard the concerns that funding from many of our healthcare organizations is no longer available for professional association membership and/or educational programs. We are also fully aware that overall costs have continued to rise. Thus, our decision to merge dues and fees for educational conferences into this new flat rate to help our members with their professional development, professional collaboration and networking, and professional practice.
So, starting with our November 13, 2026, Educational Conference, those who have renewed their membership by that date will be able to attend this hybrid conference at no additional fee.
The Student Member (Non- Voting) will remain $40.00 as we continue another MSHRM goal of engaging nursing and allied health professionals with risk management and patient safety education.
Please share the new flat rate membership information with your colleagues in quality and patient safety, with those in these roles in your multiple clinical settings and even introducing MSHRM membership to your clinical students and academic faculty!
This brings me to our hybrid November 13th Educational Conference at UMass Memorial in Worcester. Susan Montminy and the Education Committee have the challenging responsibility of selecting speakers from many wonderful submissions and will have the agenda out shortly. Please save the date! Frank Korn, our MSHRM Sponsorship Chair, has announced that RLDatix will be a Gold Sponsor for this conference.
A reminder that there is still time to register for the ASHRM Annual Conference in Phoenix, AZ. The conference is October 4-6, 2026, with options to participate in the Preconference learning opportunities on October 2nd – 3rd and Workshops prior to the Conference on October 4th. Many of our MSHRM colleagues are teaching and speaking at the conference.
MSHRM Board Positions: Our Past President, Ronnie Hanson is finalizing the slate of nominees shortly. We ask for your votes as we continue to build YOUR professional organization. Thank you for all those stepping up to nominate yourself or others.
Along that line, we understand the caution to nominate yourself for the MSHRM Treasurer position and are working on strategies to reduce that hesitancy to take on this position. In addition to our strategies, a shout-out to Beth Uhl-Israel, our current Treasurer, who has volunteered to make the transition to this role as smooth as possible.
September is also the time for introspection. For MSHRM that means embracing our work on developing a Peer Support Program for risk management/patient safety professionals. Thank you to all those responding to our survey on what you see as the major issues risk management professionals face and the support that would be beneficial. Thank you as well to those volunteering for the committee. The Peer Support committee is reviewing the survey results and prioritizing plans that we will share with you as well.
You will continue to see our LinkedIn presence through the efforts of Mike Uzer and Linda Habibi. If you are not yet signed up as a follower for our page, now is as good a time as any to do so.
We have several more plans in the works, including updating our website, reaching out to colleagues in non-hospital settings for their participation with MSHRM, and continuing to meet YOUR needs and expectations of YOUR professional organization. Please do not hesitate to contact me ([email protected]) with your feedback and suggestions.
Hope to see many of you at the ASHRM Conference, Thanks to Frank Korn we will have a booth (529) in the Exhibit Hall with NNESHRM and CSHRM so please stop by to say Hello!
May you have a great September and all that Autumn (and MSHRM) have to offer!
