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<br /> <br /> <br />Orange County Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee <br />Meeting Minutes, March 6, 2018 <br /> 5:30pm, Seymour Center, Chapel Hill, NC <br /> <br />CALL TO ORDER by Vibeke Talley, Chair <br /> Members Present: Martha Bell, Autumn Cox (Area Ombudsman), Jackie Podger, Jerry <br />Ann Gregory, Carol Kelly, Mary Fraser (Department on Aging), Karen Macklin, Vibeke <br />Talley (Chair), Susie Deter <br /> Members Excused: Jerry Schreiber <br /> Members Absent: Molly Stein, Jennifer Moore <br /> Guests Present: <br />o Cherie Rosemond, PhD, Director, Partnerships in Aging (works w/students with <br />focus on nursing home care <br />o Stephanie Miller, MSW, former SW MSW Intern w/ the county DOA, currently <br />employed at the Shepp Center, UNC; hopes to join committee membership <br /> <br />OLD BUSINESS <br /> Discussion/Approval: January 2, 2018 Minutes: Correction: Ombudsman Report: <br />Autumn reported on emergency preparations; Chapter with new nursing home regulations <br />currently on hold. With corrections, Minutes of Jan 2, 2018 were approved . <br /> <br />NEW BUSINESS <br /> Discussion with Dr. Cherie Rosemond re: committee’s hope to better define “quality of <br />life” as we move through visitations in our community. OCNHCAC members would like <br />to have a better grasp on this topic and invited Cherie to help us to better understand what <br />the term entails. Following a lengthy and lively discussion the following points, made by <br />Cherie and committee members, were: <br />o Any perception of “quality” rests with the individual themselves; <br />o How a committee member approaches and interacts with a resident through <br />observation can help to determine different aspects of the resident’s sense of quality. <br />We can use our visual and smell senses to determine hygiene, some comfort <br />elements; also interaction between resident and staff member can reveal caring nature <br />and abilities on the staff’s part <br />o Our wording of questions for more than a “yes” or “no” response can help the <br />resident expand the conversation. <br />o Cherie mentioned the results of a study she had read during her doctoral work: when <br />researchers asked residents what they considered the most important for them the <br />answers were: being more outdoors and having the ability to speak directly to their <br />doctor without having to have an intermediary, e.g., nurse at the facility <br /> <br /> Vote on Potential New Member: Further discussion was held with Stephanie regarding <br />her interest in joining our committee and what she felt she could bring to our group. <br />Afterwards she, and Cherie, were thanked for their comments and left the meeting. <br /> <br /> Ombudsman Report: Autumn provided the following: <br />o New formats for the quarterly Visitation Report which she had emailed to committee <br />members prior to the meeting. The main change is the elimination of the “a.; b.; c.;” <br />sections underneath each category. The questions are now more general with the intent