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HomeMy WebLinkAboutBOH Minutes 112019MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH November 20, 2019 S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda & Abstracts\2019 Agenda & Abstracts/ November Page 1 ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT: To enhance the quality of life, promote the health, and preserve the environment for all people in the Orange County community. THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH MET ON November 20, 2019 at the Southern Human Services Center, 2501 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill, NC. BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS PRESENT: Timothy Smith, Chair, Jessica Frega, Vice- Chair, Keith Bagby, Bruce Baldwin, Jennifer Deyo, Aparna Jonnal, Liska Lackey, Sam Lasris, Commissioner Earl McKee, and Alison Stuebe. BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS ABSENT: Lee Pickett. STAFF PRESENT: Quintana Stewart, Health Director; Rebecca Crawford, Financial and Administrative Services Director; Angela Entzel, Community Outreach Specialist – Nutrition; Victoria Hudson, Environmental Health Director; Donna King, Health Promotion & Education Services Director; Rita Krosner, Tobacco Prevention & Control Coordinator; Pam McCall, Public Health Nursing Director; Kristin Prelipp, Communications Manager; Beverly Scurry, BOH Strategic Plan Manager; and La Toya Strange, Administrative Support I. GUESTS PRESENT: None. I. Welcome New Employees Timothy Smith, Chair, called the meeting to order. Quintana Stewart, Health Director, introduced the new employees that were in attendance: Angela Entzel and Rita Krosner. II. Public Comment for Items NOT on Printed Agenda: None. III. Approval of the November 20, 2019 Agenda Motion was made by Jennifer Deyo to approve the agenda, seconded by Aparna Jonnal and carried without dissent. IV. Action Items (Consent) A. Minutes of October 23, 2019 Meeting Motion was made by Bruce Baldwin to approve the minutes of October 2019, seconded by Alison Stuebe and carried without dissent. B. 2020 Board of Health Schedule Motion was made by Sam Lasris to approve the 2020 Board of Health schedule and to meet in Hillsborough, seconded by Keith Bagby and carried without dissent. V. Educational Sessions MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH November 20, 2019 S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda & Abstracts\2019 Agenda & Abstracts/ November Page 2 A. Community and Faith-based Engagement Dr. Lori Carter-Edwards is an Associate Professor in the Public Health Leadership Program, and adjunct faculty of Epidemiology and Health Behavior at the UNC Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health. She leads the development of a statewide model of the Faith-Based Organization Network (FBON), in partnership with the NC Institute for Public Health, the NC Area Health Education Center, and the NC Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities. Dr. Carter-Edwards’ presentation covered the history of research interventions in faith settings in NC, distinguished between faith-placed and faith-based interventions, and provided some principles of community engagement. Below are some highlights. • The faith community has served an important role in health promotion in NC for 40 years. • NC is located in the Bible Belt, meaning faith-based organizations can be significant influencers and health promoters in their communities. The emphasis on faith-based organizations as sources for promoting health programs and interventions, particularly in Black communities is indisputable. • Maximize opportunities for community engagement by increasing emphasis in understanding faith-based organizational networks and their capacities to promote health. • Dr. John W. Hatch had many publications regarding the black church and its role for health promotion in the community. • Interventions were defined as faith-placed if health professionals used the church or a similar secular arena to test an intervention. Faith-based interventions were a part of the church’s health ministry, targeting the faith aspect bringing a higher being into the intervention (e.g. God). • Faithful Families provides funding to churches to help promote their goals. They recognize that faith communities play a special role in supporting their community’s health and decreasing health disparities. Faithful Families builds on the connection between health and faith at multiple levels of the socioecological model. Program facilitators and lay advisors help faith communities extend their reach into the local community and support community-wide health initiatives. • Community engagement seeks to better engage the community to achieve long-term and sustainable outcomes, processes, relationships, discourse, decision-making, or implementation. We must learn how to communicate and work together while building trust with the faith community. • Remember that the community defines who they are and what they do. We can’t define them. An engagement strategy for leveraging faith community assets for collective impact is working together as a system, not just one faith-based organization but a collection. The BOH had questions that were addressed by Dr. Carter-Edwards. B. Water Safety Initiative Dr. Jonathan Klein, Board Chair of the Dr. Charles van der Horst Water Safety Initiative or Swim for Charlie, and Meg Pomerantz, Executive Director of Girls on the Run of the Triangle, gave a presentation on the initiative that provides an opportunity for every child to be safe in and around water. Below are highlights. MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH November 20, 2019 S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda & Abstracts\2019 Agenda & Abstracts/ November Page 3 • The stimulus for the creation of Swim for Charlie was the untimely death of Dr. Charles van der Horst, a physician, leader, and humanitarian, during a marathon swim in the Hudson River in June 2019. In keeping with Charlie’s love for swimming, values, and interest with youth, fellow swimmers and friends of Charlie formed a nonprofit charitable organization in his name to provide funding along with development and implementation of youth-based water safety/swimming skills programs. • The initiative will operate using the values embodied by Dr. Charlie van der Horst: compassion, integrity, collaboration, confidence and courage. • Childhood drownings are one of the leading causes of death in children. While acknowledging that no child is ever water safe, the goal of swim lessons is to make children safer in, on, and around water. • Research shows that 64% of African-American, 45% of Hispanic/Latino and 40% of Caucasian children have little to no swimming ability. In households with incomes less than $50K/year, 79% of children have little to no swimming ability. • Specific goals for the Swim for Charlie initiative are to evaluate existing child water safety programs and assist in further development, implementation and growth; to focus on childhood groups most likely to benefit from water safety programs; and to provide programs in which children will learn basic water safety and swimming skills, which will keep them safer in and around the water. • Swim for Charlie, in collaboration with the Orange County Schools and the OC Sportsplex, will transport 2nd graders during the school day to the pool for water safety/swimming instruction which is comprised of 8 lessons over a 2 week period. The program will use the NC Healthful Living Standards and will be part of the Physical Education curriculum. Schools will be added to the program prioritizing those schools with the greatest need. The initial classes will begin spring semester 2020, will have approximately 250 students from Efland Cheeks, Central, and New Hope Elementary Schools. • Program expenses include 1)$40 per child to go through the program which includes the cost of instructors, pool fees, supplies, bathing suits/towels for those students that are without; 2)program director salary, administrative fees, office supplies and transportation costs. • In regards to funding, Swim for Charlie will initially secure funding through private donations and grants, request that the OCS provide transportation to and from the OC Sportsplex and have petitioned the BOCC to waive the pool fees at the OC Sportsplex for the initial period of the winter/spring 2020 and for the 2020-2021 school year. Lastly, it was requested that the OC Board of Health draft a letter in support of the petition. The BOH had questions that were addressed by Ms. Pomerantz and Dr. Klein. VI. Action Items (Non-Consent) A. Elections (Chair & Vice-Chair) The Board members shall elect a Chair and Vice-Chair by majority vote each year at the last meeting of the calendar year. Motion to elect Jessica Frega to Chair for the 2020 calendar year was made by Jennifer Deyo, seconded by Liska Lackey, and carried without dissent. MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH November 20, 2019 S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda & Abstracts\2019 Agenda & Abstracts/ November Page 4 Motion to elect Jennifer Deyo to Vice-Chair for the 2020 calendar year was made by Liska Lackey, seconded by Timothy Smith, and carried without dissent. VII. Reports and Discussion with Possible Action A. BOCC Annual Report and Work Plan The BOCC will review the Annual Work Plan report during a work session in the spring of 2020. Ms. Stewart mentioned that each advisory board and commission is given three minutes to present highlights to the BOCC and requested input from the Board on which topics to highlight. Some of the topics suggested included: equity work, Community Health Assessment & priorities, fluoridation review (if completed), Environmental Health’s tremendous effort with the implementation of Energov, and Family Success Alliance. Ms. Stewart gave acknowledgments to Beverly Scurry and the OCHD Leadership Team for their input. B. Health Director Report Prior to giving her report, Ms. Stewart informed the Board regarding the Customer Service Survey that was presented at last month’s Board meeting. She stated that according to Dr. Michael Day, there is a four month wait time for appointments and that the wait time is extended for restorative type appointments. Also, it was determined that our Language Services Team had not been notified of the Dental Clinic’s increased need for translation services. Lastly, Ms. Stewart gave a follow up on the Dental Clinic’s front desk staff. They will be receiving additional training and will began notifying the patients of the fees upfront. In addition to the report, highlights given by Ms. Stewart are below. • Ms. Stewart and Renee Kemske, Nutrition Program Manager, attended the Diabetes Advisory Council meeting in Raleigh and picked up the 2019 John Bowdish Community Award. • Cardinal Innovations Advisory Council is looking for members, Orange County resident stakeholders. Ms. Stewart encourage the Board members to apply. They will meet 8 times a year and have extended their deadline to apply to January. The draft PowerPoint was sent to the Board members. • The NC DHHS has suspended implementation of Medicaid Transformation until further notice. • Ms. Stewart spoke with the NC Care 360 Engagement Specialist. There will be an intro and demo in Hillsborough on Tuesday, December 3rd from 10am-11:30am at the Whitted Building, Room 230. She also stated that she’s still trying to have them attend a BOH meeting. At 8:20pm, Liska Lackey motioned to move into closed session and Sam Lasris seconded. VIII. Closed Session to Discuss Health Director’s Annual Review During the closed session, the Board of Health discussed the Quintana Stewart’s annual review. MINUTES - Draft ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH November 20, 2019 S:\Managers Working Files\BOH\Agenda & Abstracts\2019 Agenda & Abstracts/ November Page 5 IX. Adjourn to Open Session Jennifer Deyo motioned to move from closed to open session and Jessica Frega seconded. X. Board Comments. The Board indicated they wanted to ensure that they are very supportive to Ms. Stewart and that Ms. Stewart had access to any training opportunities she required. Ms. Stewart affirmed that she felt supported. The Board also mentioned that they wanted to make certain that Ms. Stewart had a balance between life and work given all that Ms. Stewart has accomplished so far in her time as health director, while prefacing that they didn’t see any signs of burnout but were just being proactive. Jennifer Deyo thanked Timothy Smith for his service as Chair. Mr. Smith wished Happy Holidays to everyone. XI. Adjournment Jessica Frega moved to adjourn the meeting at 9:03pm and Alison Stuebe seconded. The next Board of Health Meeting will be held January 29, 2020 at the Orange County Health Department, 300 West Tryon Street, Hillsborough, NC at 7:00 p.m. Respectfully submitted, Quintana Stewart, MPA Orange County Health Director Secretary to the Board