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Summer 2024 Chapter Leadership Election Results
The Local 768 Election Committee oversaw the elections for the following officers of four Chapters over the two few months:
- Social Work Chapter: Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary
- Public Health Sanitarians: Run-off election for Vice-Chairperson
- Public Health Advisors and Assistants: Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary
- DCWP Inspectors: Chair, Vice-Chair and Secretary
For each chapter, nominations were solicited and all nominees were verified as eligible candidates and provided with an opportunity to decline the nomination if they so chose.
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2024 AFSCME Convention Delegate Election Results
The Local 768 Election Committee oversaw the election of our delegates to the 2024 AFSCME Convention. We used an election vendor, ElectionBuddy, for this election.
After nominees were verified as eligible candidates and provided with an opportunity to decline the nomination if they so chose, the election began on June 19th, 2024 and concluded on July 11th, 2024. Per AFSCME constitutional requirements, all eligible voters were sent notice (via USPS mail, as well as email and text message where that information was available) of how to vote online, or if they chose, how to request a paper ballot. Each voter was asked to vote for up to 7 candidates. For delegate elections, the 7 candidates with the most votes are deemed elected. In this election, those are:
- Ryan McGuire
- Tishana King
- Lisa Blackett
- Charlton Smith
- Anthony Scruggs
- Tracey White
- Dorcas Bethel
Chapter Nominations
Nominations are open for Social Work Chapter leadership. Nominations will now be accepted through June 12. After nominations, we will schedule an election to be held online and by mail as soon as possible if more than one nominee is confirmed for any of the positions listed below.
Use this form to submit nominations for the leadership positions of Chapters. Our constitution requires that each chapter that is established has chapter leaders elected by the members of that chapter
- Chair: Primary leader, responsible for scheduling and chairing meetings
- Vice-Chair: Assists the Chair as needed
- Secretary: Responsible for taking minutes of meetings, maintaining records and assisting in communications
To learn more about the roles and responsibilities for these positions, please visit our About->Chapters page here.
Take the surveyMedical Records Specialist Petition
The Leadership of Local 768, would like to thank each and everyone of you who has participated not only in the General Membership meetings, but more importantly the title meetings for Medical Records Specialist. Your participation has brought to the forefront the issues most concerning to you in your job as a Medical Record Specialist.
Due to all of your efforts Local 768 is pushing for fair treatment of Medical Records Specialist, including telecommuting for all, a voice in policy, ending quotas, and streamlining use of outside vendors. Will you sign the petition to H+H?
In Solidarity,
Linda Ruiz
Delegate
Belinda McMullen
Executive Board Member
Carmen De León
President
Local 768, DC37, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
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Petition to Health+Hospitals
We the undersigned Medical Records Specialists start the Revenue Cycle for New York City Health and Hospitals and affiliate clinics. It is our training, education, experience and expertise in coding medical records which ensures that the contractual revenue is obtained. During this pandemic we have continued to diligently perform our duties but are being met with threats, quotas and disrespect to our profession by management. We are collectively bringing forth this petition to demand of Health and Hospitals and affiliate clinics the following:
1. All Medical Record Specialists, Associate Medical Record Specialists and Supervising Medical Records Specialists work 100% remotely throughout ALL Health and Hospitals and affiliated clinics permanently.
Currently there are varying remote schedules throughout H & H and affiliate clinics for no reason than to validate the redundant layers of management. This includes various Associate Directors, Assistant Directors, and Coordinating Managers, many of which have no coding experience or expertise.
2. Form an MRS Advisory Council comprised of union MRS to work closely with Central Office to ensure the adherence of Coding Guidelines in our trainings, meetings and Epic workload.
Credentials without experience in the five distinct areas of coding (ER, Clinic, Ambulatory Surgery, Inpatient Short Stay and Inpatient) does not make for good leadership or guidance. The MRS Advisory Council will be comprised of experienced coders throughout H & H and its affiliate clinics who have the experience and expertise in the five distinct areas of coding regardless of credential status.
3. Adherence and respect of the DC37 Health Service Unit Contract, Article V pages 54-55.
Our contract is defined and signed every three years by the City of New York and DC 37. The specific language therein is clearly stated. Currently Central Office at H & H has been quietly implementing a workload productivity quota for MRS that is violating our contract. This violation is being used to threaten the employment of our members vis a vis counseling, warnings and poor evaluations that lead to termination.
4. Streamline the third- party vendors and nonunion personnel that are creating barriers in MRS daily workload and reimbursement.
Medical Records Specialists inherently have a direct communication relationship with providers facilitating any questions / clarifications regarding their cases. This direct link is now broken by the addition of CDI (Clinical Documentation Improvement Specialists). They were employed to educate the providers in clearer documentation but instead are focusing on coding which is not their area of expertise, at double the current salary of MRS. Clinic cases coded by a third- party vendor in India have to be corrected stateside which delays reimbursement. That contract pays per case more than double the hourly wage of MRS. A third- party vendor contract was recently terminated by H & H because the vendor was fraudulently changing the codes on cases that resulted in H & H having to return reimbursed funds. The money misspent on these non- union personnel and third-party vendors would be better spent on increasing the salaries of MRS and retaining the union personnel who have a vested interest in the continued success of Health and Hospitals and the affiliate clinics.