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For Approval November 14, 2018 <br /> MINUTES <br /> Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Board of Directors Meeting <br /> October 17, 2018 <br /> The Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau met at <br /> UNC Health Care, Hillsborough Campus <br /> Board Members Present : Kayla Dempsey, Lydia Lavelle, Anthony Carey, Chair, Tim Hoke, Aaron Bachenheimer, Andrew <br /> Strickland , Jeff Stickler, Mark Bell , Tanya Moore, Rosemary Waldorf, Annette Stone, Elinor Landess <br /> Not Present : Lee Storrow, Rachel Schaevitz, Mark Sherburne, David Brooks, Libby Hough , Penny Rich , Shannan <br /> Campbell <br /> Staff attendance : Laurie Paolicelli, Marlene Barbera , Allison Chambers, Travis Myren <br /> Also present : Anna Wu , Associate Vice - Chancellor for Facilities Services at UNC, Gordon Merklein , Associate Vice <br /> Chancellor, University Real Estate Operations at UNC, Sarah DeGennaro , Executive Director at The Alliance for Historic <br /> Hillsborough <br /> Call to Order <br /> Chair Anthony Carey called the meeting to order at 8 : 09 am . <br /> Introductions were given by all . <br /> Host Welcome <br /> Jeff Strickler, DHA, RN , Vice President at UNC Hospitals welcomed the board to UNC Hospitals, Hillsborough Campus . He <br /> explained that the hospital is .constantly balancing the science and the patient experience . He mentioned that we are <br /> fortunate to be the home to two Nobel Prize winners with ties to the university and the hospital . They are forming more <br /> public/private partnerships and relationships with other universities such as NCSU that improve patient care through <br /> technology and are perfecting Cancer treatments that are sparing more of the healthy cells so people don ' t experience <br /> the side effects they may have several years ago . UNC Health Care at Hillsborough is now an 83 bed facility with their <br /> numbers creeping up a little bit more each year . Their 10 room emergency department is seeing 24, 000 patients a year; <br /> they have 8 operating rooms, as they were built to be a specialty surgical hospital and are completely the site of UNC' s <br /> joint replacement surgery, elective spinal surgery, ophthalmology surgery and non -cancer Ob-Gyn surgery . They have <br /> added pulmonary services and drug loading services as well as geriatric medicine . They have been open three years and <br /> average about 50% full capacity . A workforce engagement study showed they have received an 85 % favorable <br /> employee rating with another poll showing they are better than 95 % of hospitals across the county in patient <br /> satisfaction . They are currently building a linear accelerator, which increases and focuses a beam of radiation that will <br /> be used in outpatient oncology treatment and are doubling the size of their infusion center to deliver chemotherapy . <br /> They have received state approval to move ahead with the next phase of development which will be a second bed tower <br /> adding 50 beds and accommodating the rehabilitation hospital in Hillsborough . Rehab patients are at the hospital for a <br /> longer periods of time and Hillsborough offers them better accessibility and parking . They hope to break ground on this <br /> project within the next year with construction taking two years, from an economic development stand point this is a 75 <br /> million dollar project . They have just received notice that they are now a certified geriatric emergency department <br /> which aligns well with the geriatric programs already housed at this location . This means that they have special training, <br /> equipment and procedures focus just on the geriatric patient and are the only hospital in NC to possess this designation <br />