NEWS (Continued from department home page)

2009-2010

2008-2009

6-19-09 Vance Named the State's Most Outstanding HIM Student Janine Vance has been named the 2009 Outstanding Student by the Florida Health Information Management Association (FHIMA). She will receive her award at the membership luncheon on Tuesday, July 14, 2009, which is part of the annual meeting to be held in Orlando.
5-26-09 Congratulations! Health information management major Mily Milagros was awarded both the Betty Kernodle Scholarship and Carol Barr Scholarship at the Central Florida Health Information Management Association banquet on May 21, 2009. Click here for a photo of Mily (right) with program Director Alice Noblin. "Mily is a junior in the HIM program who has taken advantage of part-time job opportunities," Noblin said. "She works at Orlando Health for Stat Imaging, an outsourcing company, on the weekends."
4-1-09 Congratulations! Health information management major Janine Vance has been selected the college's 2009 Founders' Day student, an honor bestowed to its most outstanding student of the year. (Click here to learn more.) At UCF, she has achieved an overall GPA of 3.993 and a 4.0 in her major. She has also volunteered many hours of service to local community organizations. Vance is the recipient of a $1,000 scholarship from the Florida HIM Association as well. Click here for a photo.
3-19-09 UCF Trustees Approve Master's Program in Health Informatics The new master's degree program in health care informatics will train students for the expanding, high-tech hospital workforce that develops information systems for patient diagnosis and billing.
3-17-09 Congratulations! Health services administration graduate student Megan McLendon has been selected to receive a post-graduate fellowship at the Linthicum, Md.-based VA VISN 5 Capitol Healthcare Network — the network office for four area VA hospitals in Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Virginia and West Virginia. She will complete her M.S. this August and begin the position in September.
3-12-09 Congratulations! UCF Student Takes First Place in National Health Care Management Essay Competition Health services administration graduate student Keila Rooney earned a top national award for her paper on health care marketing in an annual essay competition sponsored by the American College of Healthcare Executives.
3-25-09 Health Services Administration Alumni Chapter's Fifth Annual State of Health Care in Central Florida Symposium FAIRWINDS Alumni Center 5 to 6 p.m., Career workshop for students 6 to 6:30 p.m., Refreshments and networking 6:30 to 8 p.m., Symposium For further information, contact Katie Korkosz at kkorkosz@mail.ucf.edu or 407-823-1600.
2-5-09 Congratulations! Health services administration graduate student Keila Rooney has been awarded the 2009-2010 Administrative Fellowship with Health First, the largest health care provider in Brevard County. Her selection breaks a long-time tradition of awarding the fellowship to UF graduates, said Chris Sorensen, vice president of corporate risk management and chief compliance officer for Health First. During the one-year, paid fellowship, Rooney will be exposed to Health First's many components and be assigned executive projects by various departments. Some 95 percent of fellows who complete the term go on to pursue executive-level careers in the Health First system.
12-10-08 Congratulations! Health services administration graduate student Keila Rooney's essay, "Consumer-Driven Healthcare Marketing: Using the Web to Get Up Close and Personal," was selected for submission to the 2009 American College of Healthcare Executives Graduate Student Essay Contest. "Typically, 50 to 60 essays are submitted by accredited master's degree programs nationally, and a committee of academicians and health care executives choose the top three entries, which are awarded prizes during the annual ACHE meeting in March," said Professor Myron Fottler, executive director of UCF's HSA programs.
10-22-08 Health Information Management Alumni Present at National Conference Christina Martinez (B.S., HIM, '98; M.S., HS-HSA, '05, RHIA) and Michael May (B.S., HSA, '01; B.S., HIM, '03, RHIA) made a presentation at the recent American Health Information Management Association conference in Seattle.

2007-2008

6-6-08 Alumni Chapter Establishes Scholarship for Health Services Administration Graduate Students UCF's Health Services Administration Alumni Chapter has established a scholarship for master’s degree students in health services administration. The chapter hopes to award the first scholarship in 2010. Click here to learn more.

1-25-08 Proper Nursing Staff Can Save Patient Lives and Reduce Health-care Costs Lynn Unruh, associate professor of health services administration, has published a review of studies on nursing-to-patient ratios in the American Journal of Nursing. Click here to learn more.

12-15-07 "64-Year-Old Lands UCF Degree from Afar" Billie Norczyk graduated with a bachelor's degree in health services administration at UCF's commencement exercises on Dec. 15. Click here to read this Orlando Sentinel article.

9-12-07 Noblin Appointed to Leadership Position in FHIMA Program Director Alice Noblin has been appointed chair of the Arrangements Committee of the Florida Health Information Management Association (FHIMA) for one year. Click here to learn more.

9-5-07 College Hosts Taiwanese Health Information Management Student Iva Chen (right), a health information management student at Kaoshiung Medical University in Taiwan, visited the College of Health and Public Affairs during July and August 2007. Her visit is hosted by Alice Noblin, director of the HIM program, and Thomas Wan, director of the Doctoral Program in Public Affairs. Click here to learn more about her visit.

7-11-07 Zak Named Most Outstanding HMI Student in State Amanda Zak (right) (B.S., Health Information Management, '07) was selected the most outstanding HIM student in the state for 2007 by the Florida Health Information Management Association. The award was presented at the association's annual meeting, held in Orlando, in June. Zak begins the Master of Science in Health Services Administration program at UCF this fall. She hopes to begin her professional career working for a government hospital.

2006-2007

Spring 2007
HSA Happenings Newsletter
Click here to view the spring 2007 issue of HSA Happenings, the alumni newsletter for the
Program in Health Services Administration.

3-2-07
HSA Alumni Club to Host Symposium on ‘Growth of Healthcare’ in Central Florida
The state of health care in Florida, what its future means to local residents and how it may
be improved by the UCF’s new College of Medicine will be the focus of this symposium.
Click here to learn more.