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MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH May 27, 2009 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Anne Miles Cassell 1 May 27,, 2009 ORANGE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT: To enhance the quality of life, promote the health, and preserve the environment for all people in the Orange County community. THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH MET ON May 27, 2009 at the Government Services Center, Hillsborough, North Carolina. BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS PRESENT: Anissa Vines, Vice-Chair; Matt Vizithum; Steve Yuhasz, Commissioner; Michael Wood, Jessica Lee; Ernie Dodson BOARD OF HEALTH MEMBERS ABSENT: Chris Harlan, Chair, out of town; Sharon Freeland; DeWana Anderson; Jim Stefanadis, meeting conflict; Tim Carey; STAFF PRESENT: Wayne Sherman, Personal Health Services Division Director; Tom Konsler, Environmental Health Services Division Director; Donna King, Health Promotion and Education Services Division Director; Angela Cooke, Dental Health Services Division Director; Carla Julian, Risk Management/Quality Assurance Director; Letitia Burns, Business Officer; Anne Miles Cassell, Administrative Assistant; Jenny Grover, Nutritionist; Jaymin Patel and Erik Johnson, Environmental Health Specialist GUESTS PRESENT: Brother’s Keeper’s Representatives – Jerry Ann Gregory, RN; Eddie Eubanks, Keith D. Cooke; Dr. Eugenia Eng, UNCCH; Mohamed Jalloh, UNCCH; Sharon Sanders, United Voices of Efland- Cheeks Executive Director; Elvira Mebane, United Voices of Efland-Cheeks President; Welcome and Introductions Anissa Vines, Vice-Chair, called the meeting to order at 7:00 P.M. and introduced guests present and Rosemary Summers introduced 2 new staff members. I. Are We Our Brother’s Keeper? Wayne Sherman introduced members of the Brother’s Keeper’s representatives and Dr. Geni Eng, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. Eddie Eubanks gave a brief power point presentation providing some highlights of the program. Brother’s Keeper is a continuation of the Man for Health program and is a program aimed at education and improvement of men’s health in the African American community. UNC is partnering with Brother’s Keeper. The program works through area churches to establish a church-based navigator/mentor system within the community, to bring awareness and provide support to an at-risk segment of the population. It will assist diagnosed men to adhere to the prescribed program. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and black men are 30% more likely to die from heart disease than whites in North Carolina. Jerry Gregory stated that the project will last until 2010 but is setting in place a navigator program of educated leaders within the community that will carry on with the work. Training manuals have been prepared for the navigators for on-going training of others in the community. Blood pressure cuffs have been purchased for all navigators to use and 4 defibrillators have been purchased to be placed in four rural churches. The goal is the have 4 Navigators and 6 “Keepers” in each church, 120 total, who will be trained in cardiovascular health and meet once a month to explore ways to include heart-