Membership Committee Responsibilities
The four primary objectives of membership administration are: member recruitment and promotion, member renewal and retention, member advancement, and member services. Other specific responsibilities are:
To plan and implement recruiting and promotional activities for new membership. Increased membership strengthens our chapter and gives each of us a vested interest in asking our peers who are not currently members to join.
To contact each hospital in the Chapter area that has no members and promote HFMA.
To develop a list of healthcare providers other than hospitals such as nursing homes, HMOs, and ambulatory care centers, and promote HFMA.
To use the member profiles, which are provided by National HFMA, to profile current membership and determine where marketing efforts could be best directed.
To seek co-sponsoring Chapter meetings with other related healthcare groups or associations.
To display membership brochures and applications at all Chapter meetings and programs.
To conduct at least one new member campaign through the use of direct mail or telemarketing techniques.
To encourage members to qualify for and become advance members.
To identify and facilitate new member services.
To publish a Chapter Membership Handbook, including names and addresses of members and other important HFMA National and Chapter information, to be delivered to members by the 10 th of November each year.
To survey the membership to determine how their needs and expectations can best be served by the Chapter. The results will be summarized and presented to Chapter members and leaders.