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Home My WebLink About11-2022 November 1 PHAB Retreat minutes MINUTES Deschutes County Health Services Public Health Advisory Board (PHAB) November 1, 2022 12:00 – 2:00PM Deschutes County Administration Building 1300 Wall St. DeArmond Room, 1st floor Near Downtown Bend  Gathering and Lunch  Introductions  Approval of October 4, 2022 PHAB meeting minutes o Motion – Dr Ross Second – Steve  Public Health Advocacy – Commissioner Chang o Sees PHAB as an under-utilized resource to the county o Wants to improve that over time  Fighting a moment where people don’t trust experts and would like to change that mindset o Wants PHAB to weigh in on annual budget  Think the budget shows what is important to the community o The question was asked how that looks like for the PHAB to weigh in on o Tom will really stay tuned to where we are seeing shortfalls in the PH budget o Dave said the PHAB hasn’t been focusing on the fiscal aspect  But if we continue to look into that then if there are specific things that we see in the community aren’t being addressed, we can look into that and advocate for those areas  Example was the homeless issue  Advocate for public health within the community by understanding the budget o Right now the PH division is largely funded through various state/federal grants (BH is funded a lot through revenue) o Grants; some are more competitive and some are not o OHA IGA is where we get program element funding; Tobacco funding; that is very reliable funding o Look to get Dan Emerson on the agenda in December  Priority Retreat Agenda Items  In-person & Virtual PHAB meetings – Where do we go? o Stan Owen can be an option o In-person with a Zoom link as an option o December will be hybrid  Membership o Dr. Ross – childhood vaccine process was part of that due to the membership on the board and the various community partners  2016 State had a program that was trying to increase childhood vaccine that PHAB also made a priority  What helped that was involving a lot of regional health improvement sources and working within the community  The linkage between us and PHAB members and other community groups really helped this  Regional Health Improvement Plan o Getting people from the clinical realm o Who is missing? (linking membership to outcomes)  Central Oregon Health Counsel  Great partner  Regional Improvement Plan  Laura is establishing relationships with them now and will help with those relationships  COPA  Summit  Representatives across the lifespan  Up and coming; a way to include people who are really passionate so we have people who can fill the gaps when people age out  Different targeted age representatives  General public health representation  OHSU o Everyone on the PHAB, invite people to meetings that you think would be a good fit for the committee o What we are expecting of members?  PHAB Priority topics o See sheet o Legislatively we do advocate very PH related programs o BH/PH division  Chang sees those lines blurring in the future  Advising and steer policy  Suicide and firearms, there is a lot of recognition that things that have been viewed as public safety issues, are getting more leverage from the Behavioral Health side  If PH doesn’t feel like they can address then the PHAB can provide some coverage in those areas o Can we get data on these topics so we can see the data on that?  Tom says we should be able to get some data o How do we develop our priorities this year?  Do we want to have a thoughtful discussion at another meeting?  Does this list capture the priorities?  Do we need more specific data to make a comprehensive list? o Goal is each member will have a topic that they are interested and passionate about o Steve states he think we should have 3 goals  Last 2 on the list are ones that can be dropped off o Fentanyl is very concerning issue  Topics we can check in on but not do a lot of work on but have our finger on the pulse of what is happening  Primaries, secondary’s, annual check in on the topic  Peter – wants to focus on larger issues particularly around inequalities in housing and medical care o Amp up the TB program o Better case management with STIs o Getting people off the streets  Dr Ross – would like more data  Tom and Dave to provide metrics to the board  Let Tom know if there is anything not on this list that needs to be o Priorities will be ranked after the data is examined  Calendar Development – o Dave will work with Rob getting a sub-committee to develop the calendar or if there are specific topics that you would want covered o Calendar Development sub-committee  Behavioral Health Advisory Board (BHAB) and PHAB o Should we work together?  Dave spoke with Rodger on the BHAB  Have some discussion as joint boards a few times a year  Commissioner Chang says that there are so many things we are looking at in our priority list  What if we had a liaison at their meetings and they had one for our meetings  Dave can meet with Rodger  Do they have sub-committees that engage with the community  Standard work group together o How do we work together?  Lots of our topics of interest intersect  Public Health Budget Advocacy – will get into next meeting o Budgetary Milestones o Budget Structure  Adjourn In Attendance: Robert Ross, MD Sharity Ludwig Tami Pike Steve Strang David Huntley Peter Boehm, MD Colleen Sinsky Lindsay Atagi DC Staff: Tom Kuhn Laura Hart Aimee Burroughs