Sheri Stoltenberg Donates $50,000 for Scholarship Fund

Ann Arbor, MI, October 28, 2009 – Sheri Stoltenberg, founder and CEO of Stoltenberg Consulting, Inc., a Women Business Enterprise-certified company that helps health systems and hospitals implement, manage and utilize information and business systems, and a CHIME Foundation Firm, has donated $50,000 to the CHIME Education Foundation.


The CHIME Education Foundation supports the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives by providing scholarships for CHIME members to attend educational events.

The Stoltenberg 25-Year Future Fund Scholarship will award $2,000 scholarships through the next 25 years to be used for any of CHIME’s educational events, including the Healthcare CIO Boot Camp, Fall CIO Forum, CHIME/HIMSS CIO Forum, and LEAD Forums.

The recipient of the 2009 scholarship from the Stoltenberg 25-Year Future Fund is Jeanne Fallon, director of clinical information systems and VNA, South Shore Hospital and South Shore VNA.

“Basically, our goal is to provide the CIO with access to education that will provide them with ideas and knowledge in order for them to be innovative and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach to enhance their organization’s ability to be successful in the area of healthcare IT,” said Stoltenberg.

“I also feel it is the responsibility of industry leaders to find ways to enhance healthcare IT outcomes as a way to return something to our community,” she said.

Scholarship applicants must be CHIME members in good standing, express a need for financial support for continuing education, and describe their professional goals in the healthcare IT industry. Stoltenberg presented the inaugural recipient of the Stolteneberg 25-Year Future Fund Scholarship at the CHIME09 Fall CIO Forum.

For more information on The CHIME Education Foundation, Scholarships, or CHIME educational events, visit www.cio-chime.org.

About CHIME

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is an executive organization dedicated to serving chief information officers and other senior healthcare IT leaders. With more than 1,300 CIO members and 70 healthcare IT vendors and professional services firms, CHIME provides a highly interactive, trusted environment enabling senior professionals and industry leaders to collaborate; exchange best practices; address professional development needs; and advocate the effective use of information management to improve health and healthcare in the communities they serve.
For more information, please visit www.cio-chime.org.

UPDATED: 11/5/2009 2:10:23 PM