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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN <br />ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT <br />AND <br />THE DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY MEDICINE <br />WITHIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UNC- CHAPEL HILL <br />THIS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ( "MOU "), made as of October 1, 2017, is <br />by and between The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for its Department of Family Medicine <br />in the School of Medicine ( "UNC ") and Orange County North Carolina, a body politic and corporate, by <br />and through its Orange County Health Department ( "OCHD "). <br />WHEREAS, UNC runs a program titled the Formerly Incarcerated Transition ( "FIT ") program, <br />which includes in its public service mission assisting former inmates with a successful reentry into the <br />community after release from incarceration; <br />WHEREAS, the FIT Program, though its UNC- employed medical director, Dr. Evan Ashkin <br />( "Physician ") has identified one significant barrier to successful re -entry as transitioning former <br />inmates' health care to community providers and assuring access to and continuity of care; <br />WHEREAS, UNC has recently received a grant from The Duke Endowment ( "TDE ") to pilot <br />expansion of the FIT program in the community setting; <br />WHEREAS, OCHD provides care coordination, service navigation, and nonclinical education <br />through its employed Community Health Worker and desires to receive advisory services from UNC in <br />its implementation of a FIT program at OCHD, with ongoing peer to peer guidance from Physician to its <br />Community Health Worker and other relevant OCHD staff, in furtherance of facilitating proper care <br />coordination and integrated service delivery to such clients; <br />WHEREAS, UNC through Physician desires to provide such peer to peer care coordination and <br />integrated service delivery guidance to OCHD, and assist OCHD with continuous quality improvement <br />of the FIT program through the analysis of data assessing the performance of OCHD's FIT program and <br />its impact on the health outcomes of OCHD's clients, each of which are consistent with the public <br />service mission of the overall FIT program and the educational mission of UNC; and <br />WHEREAS, this MOU will address the services and data sharing associated with <br />implementation and continuous quality improvement of the FIT program at DCPDH, including as may <br />relate to the TDE grant, but is separate and apart from (i) any sub -award with funding to OCHD that <br />UNC's Office of Sponsored Research may issue for OCHD's participation in the TDE grant; and/or (ii) <br />any separate documentation of the patties potential participation or collaboration in IRB- approved <br />research relating to the FIT Program; including because the services and associated data sharing outlined <br />in this MOU are intended to continue irrespective of the existence of the TDE grant, unless otherwise <br />terminated as set forth herein; <br />NOW, THEREFORE in consideration of the following mutual promises, covenants, and <br />conditions, UNC and OCHD agree as follows: <br />{00102384.DOCX} <br />