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BOARD OF GOVERNORS’ HIGHLIGHTS
OCTOBER 9, 2015
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The Board approved the 2016 GLMS budget.
Treasurer Frank Burns, MD, spoke about the
budget’s intentions before the board, saying, “This budget is designed to bring in as
much non-dues revenue as possible. There
have been no active dues increases in the
last ten years.”
The Board approved a recommendation from
the Executive Committee for GLMS to provide
$5,000 for a new Physician Wellness Program
set to launch in 2016. The program would
provide GLMS members an opportunity to
seek and receive free, anonymous counseling from a psychology practice contracted by
GLMS, which will pay for up to six counseling
sessions. “We’ve all read information about
physician stress and dissatisfaction. Across
the country, there were 400 physician suicides
last year. We think this is an important project
to get behind,” said GLMS Board Chair Bruce
Scott, MD. Look for more information about
the program in the coming months.
A sponsorship of $2,500 for The Healing
Place’s Heroin Symposium was also approved
by the GLMS Board. “The symposium is about
what we can do as a community to focus on
a heroin solution,” said The Healing Place
President Karyn Hasca l. The symposium will
include several guest speakers and a 12-step
experience, which will dispel the myths surrounding the 12-step program. The symposium is all day on October 28 at the Marriott
East. “We’ve had a great relationship with The
Healing Place and consider this an important
community need,” said Dr. Scott.
Dr. Scott encouraged physicians to join the
GLMS Wear the White Coat program which
began October 14 at the Kentucky Science
Center. Many in attendance said they’ve loved
past years of the program. “I participated in
the Wear the White Coat event a few years ago
and it was a very profound experience for me.
It was just phenomenal,” said Karyn Hascal.
Sarah Moyer, MD, Medical Director for the
Louisville Metro Dept. of Health & Wellness,
asked GLMS to help get the word out about
the department’s community health assessment. She also reported 92 overdoses so far
in 2015. Also, a large percentage of users
tested are found to have Hepatitis C. Fifty
percent were already aware they have it, and
approximately 40 percent of the remainder
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were found to have it as well. No cases of HIV
have been discovered.
KMA Executive Vice President Pat Padgett
reported that attendance was up 50 percent
at the annual KMA meeting which took place
in August. Padgett also reported the Physician
Leadership Academy, which took place at
the annual meeting, was funded by a grant
through the KMA Foundation. The grant allows for two more sessions to take place
throughout the state. The cities of Bowling
Green and London, KY, have been chosen.
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