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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. jy-8 <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: October-2. 1995 <br /> SUBJECT: Orange County Healthy Carolinians Task Force <br /> DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC BEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 1. Letter to preliminary task force HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 <br /> members and attachments. TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> 2. Proposed Project Coordinator. Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> 3. Proposed Budget. Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: <br /> For the Board of Commissioners to approve of a plan for the Health <br /> Department to participate in jointly funding a contract with the School <br /> of Public Health to conduct the Community Health Assessment of the <br /> Healthy Carolinians Task Force in collaboration with the UNC Hospitals, <br /> the School of Public Health and other community agencies. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The Board of Commissioners, at their meeting of October 18, 1994, <br /> approved the establishment of the Orange County Healthy Carolinians Task <br /> Force as recommended by the Board of Health. At the Goals and <br /> Objectives Retreat on December 10, 1994, the Commissioners agreed to <br /> endorse the goal. <br /> A preliminary meeting of the selected task force members listed in <br /> Attachment 1 was held on August 28, 1995. There was unanimous agreement <br /> that the project should be undertaken. <br /> Implementation of the Healthy Carolinians Task Force has been difficult <br /> due to staffing shortages needed to get the project rolling. UNC <br /> Hospitals has agreed to invest funds in the project contingent upon the <br /> other partners doing so and the project resulting in a community health <br /> assessment which can be used in the hospitals Joint Commission on <br /> Hospitals Accreditation Review. The UNC School of Public Health has <br /> agreed to invest a similar amount if the project can result in a model <br /> that would be replicated elsewhere. The Health Department is asked to <br /> contribute $10,000 as a partner in the project. Attachments 2 and 3 <br /> outline the tasks to be accomplished by a coordinator hired by the School <br /> of Public Health and the proposed budget for the project. <br />