2017-655 Health - UNC School of Medicine MOU for FIT program

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