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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPHAB 04-02-24 minutes Minutes Public Health Advisory Board (PHAB) April 2, 2024 12:00 – 1:30pm Stan Owen Room, Health Services Building 2577 NE Courtney Dr., Bend LUNCH PROVIDED! Facilitator Rob Ross, MD, PHAB Chair Staff Coordinator Tom Kuhn, PHAB Coordinator Scribe Aimee Burroughs Next Meeting May 7, 2024 Topic and Lead Gathering and Lunch Introductions Rob Ross Approval of February & March Minutes Motioned and seconded Minutes approved Announcements and Updates  Any Public Comment?  Any group announcements or updates? Heather shared that Environmental Health is moving underneath Emily Horton as part of the preparedness and engagement team. With this change, Tom Kuhn will be moving to a project management role from a management role. PH is moving from 5 to 4 managers. Tom will still be involved in PHAB and will be able to be more involved; he has been in local public health for 20+ years. He shared he is very excited about this change. Dr. Ross shared that the psychiatry residency bill is very important. Sarah Baron shared that at COCC they are changing the prefix to say PHE (public health educator); other exciting thing is they are now going to be able to outreach to high schools for work groups. There is a new website to explore the 4 different PH pathways at COCC. She is getting students to do interviews with different PH people to get knowledge and showcase different PH facets. Any ideas to show PH, please email Sara Baron. Dr. Fawcett suggested the correlation between climate crisis and PH. Younger generation is very interested in this and that would be good to showcase. Ruth publishes a magazine called SUS, and he would be interested in covering this project. “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 9/18/24  Environmental Health Fees update – Tom A few weeks ago Tom and Eric Mone presented to the commissioners and they went along with PHABs recommendation with option 3 for mobile food units; provides an extra 45k to generate, which will mean we rely less on the TRT.  Health Hero Awards – Tom Process starting soon and will be getting info out to the group shortly. Awards will be presented in June. Logan asked that we maybe have more of a celebration or at least time to congratulate the winners. The suggestion was for an outdoor celebration. Maybe Riverbend or Pioneer park. An Approach to After-Action Review 30 Minutes – Carissa Heinige, Emergency Preparedness Coordinator; Marissa Cummings, Management Analyst Heather did a brief introduction and shared that this is a very important process and Marissa and Carissa have done such an amazing job creating this plan. Colleen requested this presentation based on after-action report on the winter event this year. See attached presentation. Questions: Ruth had some suggestions for different resources to partner with. Heather asked the difference between Red Cross shelters and Carissa shared that Red Cross has to be asked to give shelter support by the County Emergency manager, and that it is usually when there is a very significant natural disaster or emergency. They have pre- identified sites they use. In things like extreme heat event, there isn’t really Red Cross assistance to open up a shelter, same with winter events. Maybe if there was a significant power outage or many people displaced with fire. Heather also asked about smoke data and wondering if there is a way to tap into pediatric smoke inhalation data. COPA shared that there has been a big community push for that. Wondering how we can pull from data systems to share. Sarah Baron asked about the site locations and if there are MOUs established for schools or for larger catastrophic events. Carissa said that Red Cross has MOUs established for that. It is not PH that does that, it is Red Cross. Colleen asked about FAQ or OnePager for sites that DC could create. Also asked if the after action report includes financial data from sites and a breakdown of cost and shortcomings. Carissa said yes, they are waiting for some data from the winter event but they use the historical data when a site comes to them wanting to participate. Heather asked if the RHA has a portion that we can showcase the work and funding within the CCO and Oregon health council. Could we add a section for climate and health and what is happening to the RHA and then would go into the RHIP which would help funding. Tom will ask Gwen and Miguel about that. Marissa added that most things are date based. The biggest difficulty in the summer is that smoke is so unpredictable so it is hard to expand and make more shelters or sites. “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 9/18/24 Are there CBOs working with preparedness? Some are resiliency hubs but they are out of PDX. A number of CBOs that get funding for preparedness but they are not working with DC in this capacity. Colleen shared that there is a grant that could be open for funding. Emily said that it’s hard because the barrier is that we don’t know what we will need until it happens so applying for grants is difficult. The question was asked if there was a death during one of these climate events when does the after action report looks at responsibility and accountability. If that does happen, it is then more a root cause analysis tool set. Adjourn 1:40pm In attendance: Rob Ross Tom Kuhn Ruth Vernotico Sarah Baron Logan Clausen Heather Kaisner Emily Horton Marissa Cummings Carissa Heinige Colleen Sinsky Richard Fawcett “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 9/18/24