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Care Communications, Inc. Hires New Director of Cancer Registry Services

Posted on: Monday, 18 June 2007, 09:02 CDT

Care Communications, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in the health information management (HIM) industry, today appointed Laurie Hebert, RHIA, CCS, CCS-P, CTR as its new Director of Cancer Registry Services. Hebert joined Care Communications after working in various capacities, including cancer registry/coding management for a leading quality HIM coding services company.

"Laurie Hebert brings tremendous knowledge and expertise to Care Communications' team of qualified HIM specialists," said Patricia Thierry Sheridan, MBA, RHIA and president of Care Communications. "Her skills and leadership abilities will help us continue to provide our clients with the high quality abstraction, data collection, survey preparation and quality assurance cancer registry services they've come to expect."

As Director of Cancer Registry Services, Hebert will manage cancer registry consultants and client relationships at Care Communications. She will also be responsible for selling cancer registry services and providing oversight for research projects requiring cancer registry data.

Hebert has spent much of her career serving in a variety of HIM leadership roles for many of Louisiana's top hospitals. She is an active member of the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) and the National Cancer Registrars Association (NCRA), among other leading healthcare organizations.

"I look forward to joining Care Communications' team of HIM professionals," said Hebert. "I will continue to be an active advocate for the cancer registry profession and also look forward to helping healthcare organizations more effectively treat patients afflicted with cancer and better understand and comply with the industry's frequently changing requirements."

Aside from Care Communications' cancer registry division, the company provides a wide array of patient care improvement, revenue enhancement and data abstraction services to healthcare providers, consulting firms, universities, and other research organizations. Just some of it's most in demand services include leadership training, onsite and remote medical coding, coding quality review and education, and full-service HIM consulting.

About Care Communications

Care Communications is a nationally recognized leader in Health Information Management (HIM) and has served the needs of leading healthcare organizations since 1976. Care Communications' Systems-based Leadership and Change ManagementTM approach offers healthcare organizations the industry's most focused, effective and comprehensive suite of HIM services. From consulting and change leadership to outsourced coding and staffing, the nation's most successful hospitals turn to Care Communications for help with their most challenging HIM issues. Care Communications is a VHA, Inc. preferred HIM vendor. For more information, visit www.carecommunications.com.

Source: Business Wire

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