DATE: December 23, 2009
TO: KCMS Members
FROM: Anita R. Avery, MD, President
SUBJECT: Dues reminder
As we fast approach the end of 2009, I wanted to remind you to renew your dues with the Kent County Medical Society. Your society has worked hard this year to better serve you.
If you have paid your 2010 Dues, THANK YOU!!! Now more than ever, membership in the Kent County Medical Society and the Michigan State Medical Society is critical.
Kent County Medical Society offers you, its members:
- www.kcms.org website with updated news and views
- Project Access, a program assisting you and your staff in serving uninsured patients
- 2010 KCMS Membership Directory (arriving mid-January)
- Community resource and navigation for your patients
- The Bulletin magazine
- Dinner meetings with CME opportunities
- Organized advocacy to protect patients and the practice of medicine
- Referrals for people seeking a new physician
- Committee participation
- A unified voice of medicine
- Neutral association for physicians
- Liaison involvement
- Policy making
- Mailing service for alerts, address changes, and more
- CME opportunity on Saturday, February 20 (4.25 CME credits)
- (Early 2010) online membership Directory
The KCMS office, along with MSMS, organized a very successful White Coat Rally in Lansing. More than 80 of your local colleagues participated to save physicians from a proposed tax on gross revenue. Most physicians saved $6,000 for 2010. Certainly worth membership dues!
Finally, a reminder, members who pay their dues in full by December 31 will receive one free registration to any MSMS Foundation educational program in 2010, including the Annual Scientific Meeting.
The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 12. You will be receiving your notice soon. I hope to see you there.
Thank you for your membership. This year has been challenging and rewarding for the Board. Please know that your Society has and will continue to work on physicians’ behalf. Happy Holidays to you and yours.