2021-169-E Health-NC DHHS FY22 consolidated agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:B749018F-351A-4D6F-9FC5-C2EB21856524 Consolidated Agreement FY22 Page 1 of 27 FY 2022 CONSOLIDATED AGREEMENT This Agreement is made between the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health (hereinafter referred to as "DPH") and the Orange County Health Department(herein after referred to as "LHD") for the purposes of maintaining and promoting the advancement of public health in North Carolina. This Agreement shall cover a period from June 1, 2021 to May 31, 2022 and shall remain in force until the next Fiscal Year Agreement is signed except as provided for in Section J. Termination. Now, therefore, DPH and the LHD agree that the provisions and clauses herein set forth shall be incorporated in and constitute the terms and conditions applicable for activities involving State funding. (State funding or funds means State, federal, and/or special funding or funds throughout this Agreement.) A. LHD RESPONSIBILITIES a. Performance 1. The LHD shall perform activities in compliance with applicable program rules contained in the North Carolina Administrative Code, as well as all applicable federal and North Carolina laws and regulations. 2. The LHD shall perform the activities specified in the Agreement Addenda for State-funded budgets. The LHD must negotiate these Agreement Addenda in good faith to the satisfaction of DPH representatives as part of the Agreement execution. The LHD will meet or exceed the Agreement Addenda deliverables unless extenuating circumstances prevail and are explained in writing and subsequently approved by the DPH section,branch or program. 3. The LHD shall be committed to achieve health equity,promote inclusion of all populations affected by conditions contributing to health disparities (including race or ethnicity, sex, sexual identity, age, disability, socioeconomic status, and geographic location), and ensure all staff, clinical and non- clinical,participate in ongoing training focused on health equity, health disparities, and/or social determinants of health to support individual competencies and organizational capacity to promote health equity. The LHD shall administer and enforce all rules that have been adopted by the Commission for Public Health or adopted by the Local Board of Health, Consolidated Human Services Board, or Board of County Commissioners (hereinafter referred to as "LHD governing board"), and laws that have been enacted by the North Carolina General Assembly. 4. The LHD shall provide to DPH a copy of any rules adopted, amended or rescinded by the LHD governing board pursuant to NCGS § 130A-39 Powers and duties of a local board of health and Public Health Ordinances adopted by the County Commissioners, within 30 days of adoption or rescission. These rules and ordinances are to be sent to the Deputy Director of DPH or designee. 5. The LHD shall provide formal training/orientation for its LHD governing and/or advisory board members. 6. The LHD shall not require a client to present identification that includes a picture of the client for at least immunization,pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted disease and communicable disease services. 7. LHDs shall provide or assure provision of Care Management for High-Risk Pregnancies (CMHRP), formerly known as Pregnancy Care Management(OBCM), and Care Management for At-Risk Children(CMARC), formerly known as Care Coordination for Children(CC4C). These services may be funded by Medicaid, state or federal funding through Agreement Addenda, private fenders or local funds.