West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships

School Committee Meeting Minutes

Monday, November 18, 2002

Days Inn, Flatwoods

In Attendance: Hilda Heady, Marilyn Fox, Dick Meckstroth, Carla Campbell, Patti Crawford, Bob Foster, Norm Ferrari, Ralph Utzman, Imogene Foster, April Vestal, Brenda Michael

Approval of Minutes – The minutes of the May 20, 2002 School Committee meeting were approved unanimously.

Needlestick Policy – The committee reviewed information presented by the Needlestick Policy Subcommittee regarding the creation of a list of potential pharmacies in the state where drugs could be stored in compliance with the WVRHEP needlestick policy.

Addition of Allied Health Representative to Advisory Panel – Ralph said that the committee would be meeting in person today at 1PM, following the recommendation of the committee that a representative be elected from state and private colleges. Ralph is hoping for good attendance and will provide an update at the next meeting.

Guidelines for Adjunct Faculty Appointments – Imogene said that Hilda has only received one of these from a school. Please send your guidelines to her as soon as possible. Norm said that WVU’s guidelines were on their website.

Orienting students to HP2010 Objectives – A group of site coordinators and Patti Crawford are working on incorporating HP2010 Objectives into their monthly reporting of community service activities. There was discussion about how much health profession students are oriented to HP2010 before going out to the rural sites.

New Business

Recommendations of the Visions Workgroup of the State Advisory Panel – Review of recommendations referred to the School Committee – The committee reviewed the November 2000 Visions document. The following individuals agreed to work on recommendations referred to the School Committee:

Recommendation II: Community Based Curriculum

B, C, D – Carla See, Norm Ferrari, Imogene Foster

Recommendaiton V: Health Professions Outcome Objectives for WVRHEP Graduates

A5.1, A5.2, A5.3 – Ralph Utzman, Dick Meckstroth, Bob Foster

Other New Business – HIPAA Policy – Hilda and Imogene explained that a HIPAA policy is currently being developed for WVRHEP. All students must have compliance training. If the site has specific training, they must provide this training to the student. The policy will be up for vote at the March 2003 Advisory Panel meeting.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.