Island County Board of Health
Special Meeting (Joint Meeting with Community Health Advisory Board)
Monday Tuesday April 2, 2002
Members Present:
Commissioners Mike Shelton, William F. Thorn, Mac McDowell, Captain Donald
Jensen, MC, USN (Ex-Officio Member); and Roger S. Case, MD, Executive
Secretary to the Board.
Absent: Captain Donald Jensen, MC, USN (Ex-Officio Member);
Patricia Cohen, Mayor of Oak Harbor; Barbara Saugen, Whidbey
General Hospital Commissioner
Chairman Mike Shelton called this scheduled special meeting of the
Island County Board of Health to order at 5:32 p.m., and made welcoming remarks
to the Community Health Advisory Board members, expressing the Board of
Health’s appreciation for the hard work of the CHAB members, and for the hospital’s
hosting this special session.
CHAB Chair Marie Piper welcomed the Board of Health members, recalling
that next week, April 7-13, was Public Health Week, and that CHAB proposes this
month as an ideal opportunity for CHAB to present their annual report to the
Board of Health. Marie also welcomed all the Linda Lee Martens Health Hero
awardees for the year 2001, and then turned the meeting over to the Chairman of
the CHAB Awards Committee.
Certificates of Recognition were presented to the following nominees:
Karen Ekberg for her lifelong commitment to at-risk youth through
foster care and adoption.
Richard Gerlach for his long time
devotion to patients at the North Whidbey Community Clinic.
Rosemary Noble for her efforts on
behalf of the very young, especially in bringing about free hearing screening.
Blanche Radder for volunteering as a
peer counselor for older adults on Camano Island.
Bonnie Roseberry for a variety of
volunteer efforts, including 10 years as a hospice volunteer on Camano Island.
Mary Anderson for her volunteer
activities in collaborating with over 50 community leaders to write for and
eventually being awarded grants totaling $58,146 for the “Success by Six”
program sponsored by United Way of Island County.
Oak Harbor Soroptimists for instituting
the “Vial of Life” program containing patients’ vital medical information
Coupeville Soroptimists for creating
“no moon” hospital gowns to promote patient dignity at Whidbey General
Hospital.
Linda Lee Martens Health Hero Award youth category co-recipients for 2001 were:
Jennifer
Barrow of Langley for her leadership and many
hours of work on behalf of the Relay for Life Cancer Walk
Meredith Schulte of Oak Harbor for her
many community oriented activities and serving as Captain of the CHAB team in
the Oak Harbor Relay for Life Cancer Walk
Adult co-recipients of the Linda Lee Martens Health Hero Award for 2001
were:
Doug
Dirkson, for his producing and directing two
dramatically moving videos with students from South Whidbey, one portraying the
effects of tobacco entitled “Think It Over”, and the other being a poignant
real-life story entitled “Ruined Lives” portraying the effects of
methamphetamine use in the community.
John Dyer for his untold hours of volunteer community
participation including the DARE program, and his founding and continued
participation in the Island County Chapter of Big Brothers – Big Sisters
Program.
CHAB Report to the
Board: CHAB
members Celine Servatius, Marshall Bronson and Marie Piper, with assistance
from Mary Anderson and Carrie McLachlan presented the past year’s study of the
45 significant issues of community concern gleaned from multiple surveys,
studies, and census information, explaining how CHAB members had ranked these
issues on a proven grading scale both during the year as specific presentations
were made, and again at the culmination of the study. 11 of the top 15 issues
were found to have been ranked in the top 15 issues in both rankings, and these
were finally distilled into 4 major Priority Issues by asking the following
questions:
1. What should be done?
2. What can be done?
3. What can we do something about?
4. What can we encourage others to do?
5. Can any of these issues be grouped together
The four major Priority Issues defined by CHAB were:
·
Early Support for
Infants/Parents…
Parent Support /Parent Education /Child Care
·
Mental Health Services
& Resources…
Child-Teen / Uninsured /Prevention /Resources
/Depression
·
Preventive Health
Screening…
Adult Immunization /Colonoscopy /Pap Tests
·
Physical Activity…
Overweight /Hypertension /Diabetes /CVD /Depression
Following a discussion of the presentation and comments by the members
of the Board of Health, Commissioner Shelton adjourned the meeting at 7:20 pm.
Submitted: ____________________________________________
Roger
S. Case, MD, Executive Secretary to the Board
Minutes approved this 15th day of April 2002.
ISLAND COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH
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Mike Shelton, Chairman