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MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH April 27, 2006 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Anne Miles Cassell 5 April 27, 2006 Oak Island and detailed how the collection system works along with the collection facilities used and applications. The Oak Island project was funded by the Clean Water Trust Fund and Mr. Rimer suggested this system could be used throughout the county at various locations. The Committee will do further work in this area. C. Regional Workforce Planning Project The NC Legislature has provided funds for public health “incubator” projects for the past several years. Generally these projects are proposed by a regional group of health departments that want to work on common areas of interest. Nine counties make up the membership of the Central Carolina Incubator Project. The first phase of the project is to gather data from each of the participating health departments and then to develop a potential action plan that the region would work on together. The selected project that the group decided to work on is to develop a regional workforce development plan that would allow the region to examine needs in the area of recruitment and retention of public health staff. Health directors expressed interest in some of the following topics: recruitment of Spanish speaking staff; creation of career ladders for environmental health and nursing personnel; creation of training modules that address required training; common training for certain personnel to enable work back-up; a shared pool of “scarce” staff for back-up purposes; and various other ideas that may emerge from the data collected. The Alamance County Health Department is the fiscal agent for the project. A consulting firm has been hired with the grant funds to manage the data collection phase of the project. The UNC Institute for Public Health is also gathering some of the data for the project. Data includes secondary data as well as primary data through staff surveys and focus groups. Data collection should be completed by mid-May. Staff will provide further information to the Board as the project progresses. Jessica Lee asked if the Board would be able to see an executive summary of the study. Dr. Summers replied that two levels of analysis will be done, county specific for feedback to the county and a broader regional view. As reports are made available, they will be shared with the Board. D. Informational Items a. TB Research Grant The Orange County Health Department has been invited to participate in the second phase of a CDC study to determine the factors associated with acceptance of and adherence to treatment for Latent TB infection (LTBI). The study will review 13 of 38 TB medical records of clients served through the Health Department’s Chapel Hill clinic in 2002. Research Triangle Institute will be abstracting demographic and treatment data from the random selection of records and conducting a survey of the clinic. There will be