Foltz Joins UC Clermont as It Launches First All-Online Associate Degree Program

Darline Foltz joins UC Clermont as a full-time assistant professor-educator in the new Health Information Systems Technology (HIST) Program at the college. The new HIST Program is UC Clermont’s first all-online associate degree program.

Foltz is a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) that has practiced in the field of Health Information Management (HIM) for more than 30 years. She has managed HIM departments and Information Systems departments at local area hospitals and has consulted at more than 100 hospitals, nursing homes, dialysis clinics and mental health facilities in the field of HIM and IS through her consulting firm, Foltz & Associates. Foltz also was a part-time faculty member of UC Clermont for the past three years.

“I know that having Darline onboard will enrich the educational experience of our students. She brings years of experience in the field of HIM, and we are fortunate to have her here full-time,” said Dr. Karen Lankisch, RHIA and HIST Program director. 

Foltz has been very active in volunteering both professionally and personally. She has held local, state and national positions in professional associations, including president of the Ohio Health Information Management Association and chairwoman of the Long-Term Care Section of the American Health Information Management Association. Foltz has been an active volunteer at her children’s schools (St. Thomas More and McNicholas High School) and at her parish (St. Thomas More). Currently she is the chairwoman of the annual St. Thomas More Parish Festival.

To find out more about this new online program, plan to attend the Health Information Systems Technology Open House at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 23 in Snyder Room 142 at 4200 Clermont College in Batavia.

For more information about the HIST Program, please visit the website at

http://www.ucclermont.edu/HIT.html

or contact Foltz at 

darline.foltz@uc.edu

or Lankisch at

karen.lankisch@uc.edu

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