2014-206 Health - NC Dept. of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health - FY 2015 Consolidated Agreement

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C � Consolidated Agreement FY 15 Page 2 of 28 7. The Department shall administer and enforce all rules that have been adopted by the Commission for Public Health, ratified by the North Carolina General Assembly, or adopted by the Local Board of Health. 8. The Department shall provide to the State a copy of any rules adopted by the Local Board of Health pursuant to G.S. 130A-39 and Public Health Ordinances adopted by the County Commissioners, within 30 days of adoption. These rules and ordinances are to be sent to the Local Technical Assistance and Training Branch(LTAT). 9. The Department shall have policies related to conflict of interest, and policies and procedures for Human Subjects Clearance. Each staff member shall receive a copy of these policies. 10. The Department shall provide to the State, for each county, a comprehensive community health assessment(CHA) at least every four years and a State of the County's Health Report each of the interim years. North Carolina Division of Public Health will administer this. The CHA should be a collaborative effort with local partners such as hospitals and community partnerships or the local Healthy Carolinians Partnership (if such exists), and shall include collection of primary data at the county level and secondary data from the State and other sources. The CHA shall include a list of community health problems based on the findings and a narrative of the assessment findings and priorities chosen(refer to accreditation activities regarding CHA or SOTCH). The CHA or SOTCH is due by the first Monday of December. The Department is required to submit community action plans to address the selected priority issues. These plans are due by the first Friday in June following the December submission of the CHA. For action plans, the Department shall include a minimum of two new evidence-based strategies (or expand current evidence-based strategies to new target populations)to address at least two Healthy North Carolina 2020 objectives from different focus areas. There are a total of 13 focus areas and 40 objectives within Healthy North Carolina 2020. The evidence-based strategies (EBS) shall be highlighted in the Action Plan and shall include a plan for staffing, training, implementation and monitoring/evaluation for each EBS.Action Plans shall be submitted by the Department for every CHA priority selected. The CHA will include data analysis of those indicators that are listed in the accreditation self-assessment. 11. The Department shall provide formal training for their Board of Health(BOH). The LTAT Branch shall notify the Department no later than April 30 of the name of the contractor who can provide this training during the upcoming fiscal year. First priority should be given to training newly appointed members with the ultimate goal of having all BOH members trained as time and resources allow. Continuing education updates on topics of special interest are strongly encouraged after general board member orientation has been provided for all BOH Members. 12. The Department shall provide Network and Internet access at its facilities (or to the county network where desired) at a minimum speed of a full T1 line in order to: • Connect with the North Carolina Health Alert Network(HAN), North Carolina Electronic Disease Surveillance System(NCEDSS), North Carolina Immunization Registry(NCIR), Health Information System(HIS) • Rapidly communicate e-mail alerts to and from the North Carolina Division of Public Health regarding bioterrorism and public health topics (outbreaks, emergency alerts, etc.) • Access NCDPH training material and information used for training staff, including access to webinars • Build steps of a secure infrastructure for remote data entry in the local health departments