Island County Board of Health
Special Meeting with Community Health Advisory Board (CHAB)
Tuesday, May 6, 2003 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Whidbey General Hospital Conference Rooms A & B (lower level)
Board of Health Members
Present: Commissioners Mac McDowell, Mike Shelton,
Bill Byrd; Barbara Saugen, WGH Commissioner; Roger S. Case, MD, Executive
Secretary
CHAB Members Present: Robin Hertlein, Mary
Anderson, Marie Piper, Sharon Little, Toni Kotschwar, David Macys, Rachel
Taber-Hamilton, Jolene DeVos, Megan Roosen-Runge, Kathryn Stevens, Jamie
Kersten, Judy Moore, Charles Scurlock, Mary Alice Long, Roger Case, and staff:
Tim McDonald, Carrie McLachlan, Kerry Clarke-McDonald and Janet Andrews.
Call to Order: Commissioner Mac McDowell
opened the Special Board of Health meeting at 5:35 pm and welcomed the CHAB
members and guests. He then turned the meeting over to Robin Hertlein, chair of
the Community Health Advisory Board who also welcomed the Board members and
guests.
Presentation:
Robin Hertlein presented the outline of the Community Process to the guests and
board members, explaining the major points of the 3-year cycle:
Robin
continued by explaining the work of the CHAB members during the past year and
how they were able to distill the information gathered from a variety of
sources during the preceding year through a statistically sound consolidation
process, coming up with 15 priority interest issues which were then categorized
into four major topics:
Health
Action Teams were then formed around these issues, and point papers on these
subjects prepared for presentation to the Board of Health and to the public at
this meeting.
Special
Health Report brochures were passed out and summary presentations were made on
the following topics:
Linda Lee Martens Health Hero of Island County Awards, 2002
Linda
Lee Martens Health Hero Awards are presented annually by the Board of Health
and CHAB in recognition of those unsung heroes who volunteer their time in
service to our community. Their acts of kindness may be to individuals, to
activities, or to the community at large. The award is named in honor of the
late Linda Lee Martens who was involved in so many community service activities
at the local and national level.
The Awards Committee members presented the 2002 recipients of the Linda Lee Martens Health Hero of Island County 2002 awards to the following eleven individuals and agencies:
Amy Ayers was presented with a
Lifetime Achievement Award for her many years of dedicated service to the
community. Don Lee was recognized
for his 15+ years of volunteer work on water resource issues; Megan Roosen-Runge, a South Whidbey
High School student, received the Youth Health Hero Award for her many
community service activities; and Patty Willson accepted the award in the
Agency category for Friends of Friends.
Certificates
of Recognition were awarded to Hideki
Itotani who plays classical guitar for patients at our local hospital; to Vivian Rodgers-Decker for her work in
establishing Gifts From The Heart food bank in Central Whidbey; to Lynn Willeford for initiating the
Friends of Friends Medical Support Fund which offers financial help with
medical-related bills for residents on South Whidbey; to Cheryl Torres for her work with multiple community health
(spiritual and physical) support services in Coupeville; to Jim Ramler for his 2,500+ hours of
volunteer work with Day Break, a senior adult day care and respite center; to Colleen Lura for her years of volunteer
service in hospice care, and to Dawn Keith representing Soroptimist International of Oak Harbor for their Vial of Life
project.
Adjourn: Following the award presentations, Robin Hertlein
congratulated the award recipients and thanked the CHAB members who had worked
long hours in preparing the brochures and presentations, and especially Carrie
McLachlan, administrative to CHAB (and Community Assessment & Development
Director for the Island County Health Department) for the long hours of
collating information and assisting CHAB in this annual presentation.
Board
of Health Chair Mac McDowell then thanked those present for attending, and
offered a special thanks to Scott Rhine, CEO of Whidbey General Hospital and
his staff for hosting this annual dinner meeting. The meeting was then
adjourned at 7:14 p.m.
Submitted: ____________________________________________
Roger S. Case,
MD, Executive Secretary to the Board
Minutes approved this 19th day of May, 2003.
ISLAND COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH
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Mac McDowell, Chairman