RHEP Site Coordinator Meeting

 

Flatwoods Days Inn

 

 

DRAFT MINUTES

 

 

May 21, 2002

 

 

 

Present:  Chuck Conner, Carla Campbell, Judy Koehler, Elizabeth Richmond,

Kathryn Greenlief, Malinda Turner, Georgianna Tillis, Jane Horst, Melissa

Marco, Anna Reno, Robin Cottrill, Sonnie Strader, Lora Adkins, and Shannon

Bell; and from the ORH, April Vestal and Hilda Heady.

 

Absent: Robert Blake, Parr Thacker, Penny Asbury and Steve Thomas.

 

 

Chuck Conner called to meeting to order at 9:30 AM.   Hilda asked everyone

to share what "living well" meant to them as the check-in.

 

The minutes from March and April were approved as corrected.

 

Next steps were reviewed.  

 

1.         Chuck will forward Dr. Neal's email of 3/19 to the site

coordinators.  Completed

 

2.         After the Site Coordinator meeting on May 21st we will have a

CARDIAC meeting with Dr. Neal and some of his staff to address changes in

next year's program. Be prepared to discuss your concerns from last year's

experiences. (Dr. Neal will provide lunch)  Completed

 

3.         Cabin Creek is sponsoring a "Walk across the Mountain Day" on

Friday 4-26-02, beginning at 8am. They are hosting about 100 Riverside High

School students who will be going on a five- (5) mile hike across the

mountain. They are in need of chaperons for the day. If you or your students

are interested, please contact Shannon or Angela at 595-5006, ext 248 or by

email. The event is from 8 am until 2pm.  Please dress appropriately for a

hike. Please contact by 4-19-02.  Completed

 

4.         Please contact Parr or April if you have any ideas about

increasing the student and community member attendance in both the RHEP

program at large and the retreats.  Completed

 

 

Office of Rural Health

 

 

Hilda reported that she had won a trip to the 2003 NRHA Conference.  She

wants to make that available for a Community Member to attend.  A discussion

was held on how to select that person.  (see Next Steps).  Hilda also

announced that Debra Jones, a faculty member from the Psych Department at

Pitt will be attending our CARDIAC meeting following this meeting.  Jones is

interested in obesity as it relates to Heart Disease and will be working

with us via the CARDIAC project.  Finally, Hilda talked a few minutes about

the Joan Horvath trip to West Virginia to research for a possible

documentary on healthcare in West Virginia.  Several activities will be

going on during the week of June 17th and could be incorporated into a

visit.  Hilda will follow-up w/ Horvath and get back w/ SC on the schedule.

Ideas included a health fair in Fayetteville; IDS at Cabin Creek, flood

relief work in McDowell county and 4-H camp in Mason County.

 

April thanked everyone for getting the list of names to her for the 5 and

10-year recognition.  Those certificates will be completed and forwarded to

SC for distribution.

 

WVSOM rotations - April reported that WVSOM had requested all sites approve

their Tracker requests.  Most sites have approved their rotations.  Some

sites still have rotations in 2003 that preceptors have not approved.

 

SC Retreat Evaluation/Discussion -  Sonnie handed out the summary from last

month's retreat.  Malinda said that she had not been contacted w/ the

materials from the retreat and Jane said she would forward all the material

to her.  Next retreat committee is Steve, Robert and Kathryn. 

There was a short discussion on the number of retreats to hold annually.  It

was decided to vote with "fist or five" (over email) on this since several

SC were unable to attend.  (see Next Steps)

 

June meeting - Jane asked the group to consider scheduling the June meeting

in Morgantown to shorten the drive for her and Melissa.  After a brief

discussion, it was decided to leave the meeting in June at the Braxton LRC.

 

Election Discussion - It was decided to take volunteers for the positions

that need to be changed.  Those are listed below.  To fill the spots on the

committees, an email will be sent out instructing everyone to send their top

three Committee requests to April.  She will tally the requests and will

submit those for a vote (if necessary) by e-mail. 

 

Advisory Board Rep - Carla Campbell with Shannon Bell as the alternate

Facilitator - Chuck (July-Dec) and Kathryn Greenlief (Jan-June)

Agenda Maker - Malinda Turner

Minute Taker - Jane Horst (July-Dec) and Georgianna Tillis (Jan-June)

Group Agreements Guardian - Elizabeth Richmond

Phone List Updates - Judy Koehler

Corresponding Secretary - Shannon Bell

Next Steps - Melissa Marco

Meeting Critque - Sonnie Strader

 

 

Committee Reports

 

 

Community Outreach/Curriculum - Shannon explained the template for Service

Learning that is being used by the HP 2010 pilot sites.  Shannon will e-mail

the HP 2010 web site to SCs.  Sites are to go back to January 1, 2002 and

match their community service with the HP 2010 objectives.  Sites may want

to wait until July 1 to do this since Mike McCarthy will have the full

version on Tracker by then. 

 

School Committee - Carla passed out a position statement from WVU-N

concerning the masters level students.  Beginning in the fall these students

will be required to attend 4 hours of IDS and 36 hours of community service.

She also reported that the "needle stick policy" is still an issue and being

discussed.  There was some discussion about the Health Right clinics.  There

is some concern that there is not adequate supervision for medicine students

in particular for a full month rotation with them. 

 

R & R - Ken Shannon and Jodie Jackson presented results and data on the R&R

programs in the state including:

*          Assessment of WV Four Financial Incentive Programs for Rural

Physicians

*          Empowering Rural Communities for Healthcare Provider Recruitment: An

Interim Report of the Recruitable Community Project

*          CAMC Match Day results - they did not fill all their spots at CAMC

 

Ken Shannon's retention game can be found at www.hsc.wvu/som/fammed/rcp-game

<http://www.hsc.wvu/som/fammed/rcp-game> .

 

IT Committee -   Kristian Robinson needs SCs to respond to him regarding the

WVRHEP templates for the new web page layout.  Everyone was reminded that

they are still looking for members on this committee.

 

Evaluation - Sonnie told about Ken Shannon's presentation on the SERFE

completions.  The new server will be up on Tracker by July 1.  Erin Condo is

back working at the ORH this summer and will be working on service learning.

She has a report that she prepared last year on how the sites may

incorporate service learning into their community service.

 

Finance Committee - Chuck reported that all budgets were approved except for

Southern Counties who has been given an extension due to their special

circumstances.  Some consortia will be receiving memos requesting additional

clarification on their budgets.  Chuck would also like to share a letter

that is being drafted at the committee level to be sent to Dr. Lewis with

some concerns relative to the financial distribution.  He asked that the SC

look the letter over and email any comments back to him ASAP.  He also

reported that our funding would come from WVHEPC office this year instead of

from the schools.

 

Other SC Concerns/Helpful Hints/Appreciations were shared.  Malinda took a

count on who actually uses the SC job description and evaluation.  She said

that she was concerned that a lot of work was being done on a document that

few were using.

 

April said that she had PT Manuals for those SC's that did not get the

notebook from Ralph on Monday. 

 

Elizabeth will be meeting with SCs who can help with this years State Fair

after the meeting.  The State Fair is August 9th - 17th.

 

Next Steps were reviewed by Chuck and include the following:

 

1.         Submit to Hilda the name of a community member who has an interest

in joining the National Rural Health Association and attending the national

NRHA conference in May of 2003 in Salt Lake City. By September 30th, 2002

 

2.         The retreat committee will email the coordinators to solicit votes

on whether to have Site Coordinator retreats once or twice a year. By May

31st.

 

3.         Elizabeth will solicit by email each site coordinator's top three

choices for providing committee representation on RHEP committees.  You will

send this information by email to April.  April will tally the results and

report them to us.  In the event of a tie or there are more requests for a

particular committee than available, she will solicit a vote on the choices.

By May 31st.

 

4.         All community outreach activities reported on TRACKER will be

correlated with a Healthy people 2010 Objective (if applicable). The system

will be operable by July 1st. Next Step to be completed by August 1st.

 

5.         Shannon will email the coordinators the web address for the WV HP

2010 info.

 

6.         Melissa will email Imogene Foster to see whether the new Graduate

Nursing Policy has been sent to field faculty and preceptors. She will

report to the group by email.

 

7.         April will request a copy of materials distributed at the

Recruitment and Retention Committee meeting to be sent to all sites.

 

8.         Respond to Kristian Robinson regarding the WVRHEP web site formats

that he has developed for consortium use. By May 31st.

 

9.         Malinda will email Erin Condo to request that a copy of her Service

Learning paper be sent to all coordinators.

 

10.        Chuck will email the draft copy of the letter to Dr. Lewis to all

coordinators for comment. Please keep this confidential while in the draft

stage. Respond by May 31st.

 

 

Meeting adjourned at 12:20.

 

 

Submitted by:

 

 

 

Georgianna Tillis

Secretary

 

 

 

 

 

MEETING DATES FOR 2002- the following will be the Site Coordinators meeting

dates for 2002:

 

 

June 11, 2002              Braxton

            July 16, 2002               Flatwoods

            August 2002                 SC Retreat

 

            September 17, 2002     Flatwoods

 

October 2002              Lewisburg

November 19, 2002     Flatwoods

            December 10, 2002     TBA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office and Committee Members:

 

Facilitator           January - June 2002       Robert Blake

 

The following positions are held for one year, July 1, 2001 - June 30, 2002:

 

 

Advisory Panel Jane Horst (Alt. Georgianna Tillis)

Agenda Maker Melissa Marco

Minute Taker Georgianna Tillis

Group Agreement Guardian Robert Blake

Phone List Updates Sonnie Strader

Corresponding Secretary Parr Thacker

Next Steps Lookout Chuck Conner

Meeting Critique Organizer Parr Thacker

 

 

Committee Representatives:

Curriculum/Community Outreach

Kathryn Greenlief         Elizabeth Richmond      Carla Campbell

(Melissa Marco)

Recruitment & Retention

Penny Rose Asbury      Shannon Bell                (Chuck Conner)

Evaluation

Sonnie Strader Malinda Turner Jane Horst                    (Steve Thomas)

Information Technology

Parr Thacker                (Robert Blake)

Faculty Development

Jane Horst                    Parr Thacker                (Jacquelynn)

School Committee

Carla Campbell            Chuck Conner

Finance Committee

Chuck Conner Steve Thomas               (Anna Reno)

Student Advisory

Shannon Bell                Melissa Marco             (Parr Thacker)

Community Member

Robert Blake                Parr Thacker                (Elizabeth Richmond)