HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-01 January 28 PHAB Meeting Minutes“To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.”
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January 28, 2015
12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Stan Owen, Deschutes County Health Services
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Facilitator Jock Pribnow, Chair
Meeting Coordinator Tom Kuhn
Scribe Lisa Michael
Next Meeting February 25, 2015, Health Services, Stan Owen
Agenda Items/Discussion/Motions
Topic and Lead
1
Introductions & Approval of October Meeting Minutes
The Board and guests went around the room and everyone introduced themselves.
Katrina moved to approve the minutes as submitted with a second by Mike. Unanimously
approved.
2
Brief Announcements & Unfinished Business
Charla announced the clinic received a $5k grant from SCMC for the food voucher
program designed to provide healthy foods for clinic patients.
Katrina mentioned she will be attending a statewide farmer’s conference tomorrow. She is
on the steering committee and anticipates over 250 in attendance with 20 food service
directors. Katrina also noted she received $6900 from the UDSA for fruits and vegetables
from local producers.
Jessica announced that a new BH technician has recently been hired to train for suicide
prevention and that she has also attended two keynote presentations so far on tobacco
cessation.
Penny is organizing a training program for teen tobacco cessation and seeking facilitators
to assist. Training starts on February 27th. She spoke about procedural changes in
handling students who get caught smoking on campus. Instead of suspending the student,
they will be required to attend a tobacco cessation program.
Mike noted his staff of 400 employees just completed a smoke free campus training
effective immediately at all Advantage Dental facilities.
Deschutes County Health Services
Public Health Advisory Board
“To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.”
3
Annual Strategic Plan Update
Cherstin Callon, Administrative Analyst and Shannon Vandegriff, Quality Improvement
Specialist, presented to the Board a 2015 update to the current Strategic Plan. As part of
the process, managers and supervisors met to identify a set of priorities, determine what
items have been resolved, and what to continue working on or postpone, thereby
attempting to achieve a balanced “scorecard”. The team identified measures and
deliverables and revised and defined goals, including carryover items, while considering
ten essential PH services and priorities from strategic planning retreats. Five top priorities
were noted during the PH retreat: 1. Assessment and redesign of the reporting structure
and staff responsibilities, 2. Development of a rational distribution of resources, 3.
Improvement on internal and external communications, 4. Re-evaluation and update of the
workforce development plan, and 5. Collection and utilization of data information.
Tom provided a review of progress made on Strategic Plan goals during the past year and
earlier. Some highlighted accomplishments include the opening of the new Sisters SBHC,
receiving accreditation from the Public Health Accreditation Board, suicide prevention work
and orchestration of the new tobacco free campus policy.
The basic theme behind the Strategic Plan “snapshot” is to concentrate on promoting
better health and better care for less cost. The 2015 goals focus on integrating
community/client and stakeholder to accomplish just that, promote individual health and
prevent disease, while monitoring community health as a whole. As part of this integration,
staff will evaluate and enhance system performance and improve business processes,
while improving fiscal security and effective use of resources.
Cherstin noted that the plan is in draft form and staff is currently working on fine tuning
these measures and deliverables.
4
What’s for sale in our community: e-cigarettes and flavored tobacco products
Penny Pritchard gave a PowerPoint presentation to create awareness of developing
tobacco matters and discuss the prevalence of youth and flavored nicotine products being
sold in our community. E-cigarettes and flavored tobacco products are the gateway to
addiction, especially when packaged in such a manner that appears attractive to youth.
Nearly 90% of all daily smokers start before the age of 18 and a recent poll of 8th and 11th
graders in Deschutes County revealed a higher than state average for tobacco use within a
30 day timeframe. New products are rapidly flooding the market that include candy
flavored cigarettes, cigars, and hookah, and nicotine flavored foods, etc. mainly packaged
to entice our youth. Sales of electronic cigarettes are increasing at an alarming rate with
$1 billion dollars projected in 2013 alone. Penny noted why our youth are so interested in
these products. They are sweet and mimic popular candy bra nds, they are cheap and/or
free, they are widely advertised with a vast majority of retailers placing these products near
candy or at a child’s eye level, and they are easy to obtain, meaning most of these tobacco
retailers are located near schools. In order to address these issues, several states have
imposed a required tobacco license upon retailers who sell such products. Within these
states, many counties also have their own licensing program. Lane County is the first and
only so far who has adopted a tobacco licensing program in the state of Oregon. Another
such solution is to prohibit the sale and use of flavored nicotine products where minors are
allowed and prohibit the sale and use of delivery devices to minors. Penny asked the
Board for a letter of support to the BOCC in implementing a tobacco licensing program
here in Deschutes County. She also added that www.smokefreeoregon.com is a great
resource for those seeking to quit smoking.
“To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.”
5
COCC Dental Screening Partnership
Pamela spoke about the new partnership between DCHS and the COCC Dental Assisting
program designed to accommodate adult clients and their families (18 or older). These
patients come to our office for a dental screening at no cost to them, and if eligible, can
then schedule an appointment to have fillings or extraction work done at the college by
volunteer dentists and students enrolled in the program. Each service costs the
patient a mere $20 and one service is typically provided for each appointment. The first
dental screening took place in mid January and DCHS already has 16 patients on the
waiting list for the next screening. COCC will provide two dental clinics per month on
campus.
6
PHAB 2015 Survey Results
Tom asked the Board which prior topics the Board would like to continue discussing from
2014. Six categories were chosen: 1. Suicide prevention, 2. Oral health, 3. Youth
marijuana usage, 4. Senior health, 5. Legislation and 6. E-cigs/flavored tobacco products.
The Board was also surveyed on new items up for discussion in 2015. Some of those
mentioned were immunizations, to implementing the new marijuana laws, to the oil trains
that regularly pass through town, amongst many others. Tom also asked for any general
comments or suggestions.
7 Adjourn at 1:30 p.m.
Board Members present: Jock Pribnow, Keith Winsor, Holly Remer, Katrina Wiest, Mike
Shirtcliff, Charles Frazier, Charla DeHate,
Staff Members present: Tom Kuhn, Pamela Ferguson, Jessica Jacks, and Lisa Michael
Guest Speaker(s): Cherstin Callon (staff), Shannon Vandegriff (staff), and Penny
Pritchard (staff)
SCMC – St Charles Medical Center USDA – United States Dept. of Agriculture
BH – Behavioral Health PH – Public Health
SBHC – School Based Health Center E – Electronic
BOCC – Board of County Commissioners DCHS – Deschutes County Health Services
COCC – Central Oregon Community College