Canadice: At age 56, Melissa passed away on Saturday, January 24, 2026. She was born on July 16, 1969, to John W. and Karen F. (Wright) Clark. Melissa is predeceased by her husband, David J. Collins. In addition to her parents, Melissa is survived by her siblings, Patrick (Travania) Clark, Read more
Darlene McKendrick, RHIA, CCS has been in the Health Information Management (HIM) field for 37 years. Most of those years have been in the health insurance and hospital setting. Since 2016, she has been a DRG Coding and Clinical Validation Analyst for Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS). Darlene has Read more
Mary Pasciak, RHIT, has been in the Health Information Management (HIM) field for 18 years. Since 2023 she has been an Outpatient Coder, on the facility-side, with Garnet Health System in Middletown NY. Mary has a strong background in outpatient coding, as well as medical record analysis. Her role has Read more
I had the pleasure of speaking with Penny Hankins, MS, RHIT the current President of RRHIMA. Penny is a senior medical records coder at the University of Rochester (URMC). Penny holds a RHIT credential and has been coding for two years. Penny codes Home Health Care and Ophthalmology cases. She Read more
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 Read more
RRHIMA made several bylaws changes at the Mid-Year Business Meeting on January 26, 2023. A vote was taken and the bylaw changes were approved. Please take a look at these RRHIMA bylaw changes today.
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 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!!