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Lorri Lauzze, RHIT, CHC, is the Director of Corporate Compliance for Rochester Regional Health (RRH) and has been in the department since the program’s inception more than 20 years ago. Lorri was a key contributor in designing, planning, and implementing the Corporate Compliance program. The building blocks of her career stem from her strong background as an Inpatient and Outpatient Coder and as a Clinical Documentation Specialist (CDI). She was in the right place at Read more…

Donna Barnard has been working in the HIM field for 37 years and contributes her multi-faceted HIM career path to “being in the right place at the right time and finding the right thing I enjoy doing.” Currently, she is the Director of Health Information Management/Utilization Management at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) where she will be celebrating her 25th anniversary next May. During her tenure at URMC she has witnessed the transformation of Read more…

Beth Ann Hinog, Co-Director of Education (1st year), and Mary Pasciak, President of RRHIMA, had a great time today at the Breast Cancer Walk at Frontier Field. There were many walkers today. The walk was sponsored by Rochester Regional Health System. There were over 509 walkers from RGH alone!!

Elizabeth “Lisa” Wild, RHIA, CHPS, has been working in the HIM field for over 30 years. As Senior Manager of the Privacy Program at Rochester Regional Health for the past seven years she says, “I can’t say I fell into the position. I kind of ran into it.” Like many HIM professionals, Lisa was first drawn to coding. “In college I loved coding and I loved data.” She earned her Bachelors of Science degree in Read more…

Ann Ortolaza, RHIT and former “roving” reporter for this column for the past four years will be celebrating her 10th Anniversary as an Outpatient Coder for Rochester Regional Health on July 5, 2022. Her love for the HIM field began when she as a teenager visiting her mother in the hospital. Walking down the hallway she spotted a big Medical Records sign and wondered what it was all about. There was something about the hospital Read more…