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3 1 Commissioner Pelissier said she recalled that most cases were at one particular school. 2 Colleen Bridger said most cases were probably at the Emerson Waldorf School, which 3 has a high percentage of unvaccinated children. She said many people were vaccinated after 4 this outbreak. 5 Paul Chelminski said these children are not out of the woods yet, as there is a potential 6 fatal reactivation of measles that can occur decades later. 7 Commissioner Price asked if the health department approaches the school to make 8 contact with parents when there is knowledge of a child with an illness. 9 Colleen Bridger said each situation is different. She said contact is made with the 10 school to get the immunization records of each child that came in contact with the affected 11 person. She said contact is made with the parents of any unimmunized child. 12 She said a letter is also sent to each classroom, as well as bus riders, afterschool 13 programs and church groups. She said it is quite a complicated process. 14 Commissioner Price asked which staff members do that work. 15 Colleen Bridger said this is primarily done by nurses, sometimes paired with staff 16 persons. 17 18 Commissioner Gordon arrived at 5:58. 19 20 Colleen Bridger noted that the Orange County Health Department was given an award 21 for the best outbreak response. 22 Colleen Bridger said decisions of the Health Department are data driven and multi- 23 faceted. She said dashboards have been created for each of the board's three priorities — 24 access to care, substance abuse and mental health, and childhood obesity. She said this will 25 allow tracking of progress in each of these areas. 26 She said the Health Department is also developing management dashboards internally 27 for different departments, such as billing and appointments. 28 She said the Patagonia rollout is moving forward. She said the current focus is on the 29 electronic medical record piece. She said this is helping the department take better care of 30 patients and make better decisions about the allocation of resources. 31 She said Public Health has an annual THield" trip centered on Outreach and Education, 32 and students from the school of Public Health are brought to Hillsborough. She said this year's 33 group had 45 students, and staff worked hard to help them understand real world Public Health. 34 Colleen Bridger said videos have been created to tell the story of the Health 35 Department. She showed a video created by staff. 36 She showed a second video created by high school students in response to a peer 37 education program supported by Health Department grant funds. She said the purpose of this 38 was to improve HPV vaccinations among students. 39 She said, as a result of this campaign, there were 24 students who received the first of a 40 series of three vaccinations. She said half of these were male. 41 She passed out fliers regarding drug drop off boxes. 42 43 3. Board of Health's Strategic Plan Progress 44 45 Matthew Kelm reviewed the following slides: 46 47 Board of Health 48 Strategic Plan 2012-2014 49 50 Priority Areas (Graphic)