Notes from RHEP Finance Subcommittee Meeting

July 16, 2001

Days Inn, Room 114-116

9:30 am – 12:30 pm

WHAT MATTERS?

¨ Educating health sciences students to have a sensitivity and commitment to rural communities

¨ Recruitment and retention

¨ Improving the quality of life for people of West Virginia through health and educational services

¨ All partners understand where they fit

¨ Their contributions to the mission/change process

¨ The meaning of partnership

¨ Who are the partners?

¨ Universities

¨ Communities

¨ Providers

¨ Legislators

¨ Students

¨ Health care agencies

¨ National partners

¨ Staff

¨ Local Board of Directors

¨ Foundations

¨ Patients

CONTRIBUTIONS THAT PARTNERS MIGHT MAKE?

¨ Knowledge

¨ Technical Skills

¨ Agreement to support each other

¨ Caring, commitment, community

¨ Influence, contacts……..

¨ Wisdom

¨ Accountability

¨ Opportunity

WHAT ARE OUR STRENGTHS?

¨ Very Successful

¨ Partnership

¨ Learn from each other

¨ Understand differences as well as commonalties

¨ Creativity

¨ Articulating / Communicating

¨ Visibility

¨ Equality

¨ Shared Values

PRINCIPLES OF ALLOCATION

¨ Define fixed vs. variable costs by consortium

¨ What can be shared equally?

¨ What must be distributed according to need?

¨ Who do we pay? How do we pay?

¨ What models work? How can we generalize? Look internally to learn.

¨ Communicate and involve partners

¨ Use information you have (but don’t let the information use you)

¨ Consider means of drawing right partners into the right discussions:

¨ Who needs to be here?

¨ Respect

¨ Inclusion

¨ Positive Outcome

¨ Use existing/planned events to get people together

¨ Go to the schools-re-establish partnership

¨ Consider short-term and long-term

¨ Build flexibility into planning

¨ Evaluate progress against long-term goal/vision

¨ Preserve independence of consortia/communities (few rules as possible)

¨ Define roles of community boards vs. RHEP partnership (see guidelines vs. rules)

Subcommittee Members Attending:

Chuck Conner, Winding Roads Consortium,

Imogene Foster, WVU School of Nursing,

Tom Hefner, Mountain Health Consortium,

David Hughes, Cabin Creek Consortium,

Joan Hypes, Rural Mountain Consortium,

Gaye Mitchell, Eastern WVRHEC,

Jay Prager, ROVER Consortium,

Anna Reno, Little Kanawha Consortium,

Tom Whittier, Winding Roads Consortium,

Margaret Novacich, RHEP Administration

Other Interested Parties Attending:

Robert Blake, Webster-Nicholas Consortium,

Drew Dunlap, WVU Rural Health,

Jane Horst, Eastern WVRHEC,

Georgianna Tillis, Western Counties Consortium,

Melissa Marco, ROVER Consortium,

April Vestal, RHEP Administration,

Kathryn Greenlief, Mountain Health Consortium,

Penny Asbury, Southern Counties Consortium

Judy Sedgeman, Syd Banks Institute