CAMTS Board Meeting – March 14-16, 2008
Alexandria, VA

The Board of Directors met for three days in Alexandria in conjunction with the AAMS mid-year conference. Ms Frazer and Ms Corbett provided an overview of new projects that CAMTS will be exploring such as scoring and risk analysis for programs demonstrating compliance with the accreditation standards.

There were 22 accreditation deliberations and six progress reports reviewed by the full Board. There were also 54 progress reports reviewed by the Executive Committee.

Mr. Dudley Smith, Treasurer discussed the 2009 fiscal year budget. Budget approved.

Ms Frazer gave an update on the mid-year conference. Ms Corbett and Ms Frazer did a presentation on CAMTS vision for the future that included moving towards a scoring system to determine compliance with the accreditation standards. The presentation was well received.

Dr. Richard Orr, CAMTS Vice-Chair, also convened an ad hoc Ethics Committee to discuss two major ethical questions – 1. As a voluntary organization, is CAMTS required to accept every application for accreditation? 2. In this age of transparency, should CAMTS move towards disclosing when a program has items for correction resulting from their site visit similar to the Quality Checks on hospitals found on the JCAHO website?

The ad hoc Ethics Committee made up of representative of independent, and hospital-based services as well as international representation, agreed with pursuing plans to address both questions. The Board passed a revision to the Due Process policy as bolded in the attachment to be implemented immediately.

Ms Karen Rogers provided a report on the site survey schedule and site visits for the future. Ms Rogers also reported on our continued internal QM process and on results of QM performance evaluations from the September 2007.