Welcome to

The New Mexico Rio Grande Chapter of CMSA

The Case Management Society of America is the leading membership association providing professional collaboration across the healthcare continuum to advocate for patients’ well being and improved health outcomes by fostering case management growth and development, impacting health care policy, and providing evidence-based tools and resources.

Care managers are advocates who help patients understand their current health status, what they can do about it and why those treatments are important.  In this way, care managers are catalysts by guiding patients and providing cohesion to other professionals in the health care delivery team, enabling their clients to achieve goals more effectively and efficiently.

We are located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and have about 90 members. Our professional organization is targeted for nurses, social workers and other health care professional case managers in a diverse range of settings in New Mexico.

We are a non-profit organization that has been affiliated since March 11, 1997 with the national CMSA organization. The national organization has more than 7,600 members with 100 affiliated and pending chapters.

Our chapter's mission is to provide education, support and communication to case managers in New Mexico.

 

Monthly Meeting Information

CMSANM meets monthly on the THIRD Thursday of the month from 7:00 am to 9:00 am, unless noted otherwise below.  

The meeting will be held at the Marriott, 2101 Louisiana Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM; located at I-40 and Louisiana in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Sign In, Networking & Breakfast at 7:00 am  Presentation at 7:45 am

The meeting is open to everyone.  The cost is 10 dollars for CMSA members and 20 dollars for non-members per meeting.  CEU’s are provided when appropriate. 

If you need further directions– email your request here

RSVP to nmcmsa@gmail.com by 5 pm on the Sunday prior to the meeting in order to accomodate all attendees

 

Happy National Nurses Week May 6- May 12, 2013

 

National Nurses Week 2013


CMSA would like to thank all of the nurses and nurse case managers in the CMSA community who provide safe and quality care to patients each day, across the globe.  Click here for National Nurse Week information, resources and celebration ideas!

Often described as an art and a science, nursing is a profession that embraces dedicated people with varied interests, strengths and passions because of the many opportunities the profession offers. As nurses, we work in emergency rooms, school based clinics, and homeless shelters, to name a few. We have many roles – from staff nurse to educator to nurse practitioner and nurse researcher – and serve all of them with passion for the profession and with a strong commitment to patient safety.

 

 

2013 Upcoming events

May

Thursday May 16, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott

Health Care Reform in New Mexico

Mark Epstein, MD, MBA

 

June

Thursday June 20, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott

Competitive Bidding for Medicare: The New Changes for DME

John Butler, RT


June 24 to June 28, 2013 CMSA National Conference; New Orleans, Louisiana

 

July

Thursday July 18, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott

Motivational Interviewing Topic

Jean Calhoun

 

August

Thursday August 15, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott

 

September

Thursday September 19, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott

 

October

Annual CMSA Conference, October 10-11 Thursday and Friday at the Marriott

Thursday October 17, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott

 

November

Thursday November 21, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott

 

December

Thursday December 19, 0700 - 0900, CMSA monthly meeting at the Marriott