Joint Outreach and Curriculum Committee Meeting 3/15/04

Attendance

Dennis McCutcheon, Patti Crawford, Robert Blake, Amber Crist, Shannon Bell, Sarah Miller, April Vestal, Kathryn Greenlief, Kathleen Bors, Henry Taylor

Old Business

Minutes approved. Visions re-drafted by Henry Taylor. Discussed by group and changes made.

New Business

Visions Template and Process

The ongoing update to the Visions document is a Quality Improvement process. The overall goal is to help each committee move its old business to completion.

The legislature wants to see placements; should we hold schools accountable for placements?

In order to assure “buy-in” and to sustain the ongoing process, decided to have a member of JOCC as well as a ‘champion’ for each committee, as follows:

Committee	Committee Champion	JOCC member
Schools	Imogene Foster	Kay Bors
Evaluation	Helen Baker Jodie Jackson	Kay Bors
Recruitment and Retention	Alicia Tyler	Patty Crawford
Site Coordinators	Shannon Bell	Kathryn Greenlief
Finance	Margaret	April Vestal
Student Advisory (inactive)
Community Members (inactive)

Suggest having a written summary of the process for the next Advisory Panel.

Consider having a Quality Improvement session at a future Faculty Development conference.

Eventually, create a web-based tool for posting updates.

Henry Taylor to type up edits to Visions document and circulate to the committee.

“Outreach Goals”

Evaluate Healthy People 2010: what projects are being done, and which objectives are being done.

Brainstormed 5 RHEP Goals, building from, and condensing, the ones in the 2000 Visions document:

• Improve the quality of health care provided to, and the overall health status of, underserved citizens of West Virginia.

• Recruit and retain qualified health practitioners by placing students in communities throughout West Virginia.

• Provide an infrastructure of professional support, and networks of supportive services, so rural providers stay in service to underserved communities.

• Embed community-based service-learning in all health professions training and curricula.

• Partner with communities to clarify their real health needs and demands.

WVRHEP Quality Improvement

Flow Diagram of Visions Updates

Flow Diagram of QI Process

Draft Template for recording progress

Overall Goal

Objective

Indicator (target)

Status

Plan

Visions Update for WV Rural Health Education Partnerships

Goals

• Improve the quality of health care and overall health status of underserved citizens of West Virginia.

• Recruit and retain health practitioners by placing students in communities.

• Provide an infrastructure and networks for professional support, so rural providers stay in service to underserved communities.

• Coordinate WVRHEP competencies with the curricula of the health professions schools.

• Partner with communities to clarify the real health needs and demands of the citizens.

Vision

“We envision a time when all residents of our most underserved, rural communities have local access to high quality primary health care provided by well trained, high quality health care professionals.”

Mission

The West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnership will educate, recruit, and retain quality health care professionals for service to rural communities to improve the health of the people of West Virginia.

Core Values

Partnership, Trust, Respect, Honesty, Passion, Love, Humility, Belonging.

Guiding Principles

It is our social responsibility to:

• Serve our families, and the rural communities, in which we live and work

• Seek knowledge and educate health care providers to serve and address the needs of our rural people

• To engage in and promote interdisciplinary community-based learning for all partners.

• Improve and sustain the health and quality of life for West Virginians.

• Seek to sustain the quality of rural life and the institutions within our communities that support this way of life.

• Foster and develop leaders within our partnership and in our communities.

• Use our resources wisely to meet our mission.

• Achieve a level of human understanding that is characterized by our positive and functional communications, our respect for each other, our desire to transcend our differences, and embrace the diversity within our culture.

• Foster and maintain the stewardship of our partners through principled and disciplined behavior.