Sheli Shockley

I am currently a Health Information Management Instructor at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth Kansas. I have served in this position for over 2 years now and helped to build the HIM Program from the ground up. Our program received full accreditation status on November 5th, 2014 after 2 years of hard working building curriculum and connecting with the community to access their needs.

Before my career as an instructor, I was an HIM Director at a small Critical Access Hospital in Northeast Kansas. I held this position for approximately 7 of my 14 years at the hospital. During my years there I performed everything from inpatient and outpatient coding, compilation of hospital statistics, quality assurance reviews, utilization coordination in-house and in conjunction with insurance agencies, chargemaster reviews, and many others. I served as HIPAA Officer for 3 years and held many committee positions issues such as documentation improvement and even fund-raising. During my time as HIM Director and as an HIM Instructor, I also performed independent consultant work for neighboring healthcare facilities performing inpatient facility coding and physician office ER E&M assignment.

I am currently a member of both the AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) and HFMA (Healthcare Finance Management Association. I also received my AHIMA Approved Train the Trainer Certificate in the Summer of 2013. I am currently 2 courses away from acheiving a Master in Business Administration with an emphasis in Healthcare Administration and anticipate finishing this degree in March of 2015.