Galion Board of Health Meeting

See attached Health Commissioner Report.

See attached Environmental Health Team Report.

See attached Nursing Team Report.

Contracts that were entered into by the Health Commissioner:

Reminder to BOH members that two (2) hours of continuing education are required to be completed each calendar year, per ORC 3701.342.
Verification sheets (attached), and copies of certificates (if applicable) need to be submitted to Health Commissioner.  There is an applicable training on Sunshine Laws (very good for new members) available virtually at the following link: 
https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Legal/Sunshine-Laws/Sunshine-Law-Training
Kent State College of Public Health has created additional learning modules to assist local boards of health meet their two-hour annual continuing education requirements. Access all of the learning modules here: https://www.kent.edu/publichealth/local-boards-health-continuing-education-lectures

Motion to approve the December 13, 2022, GCHD Board of Health meeting minutes, as presented by:________________________ Second by:___________________________
Roll Call Vote Needed
Burgin_____  Moran_____  Sterling_____  Wildenthaler_____  Yocum_____             
Passed          Failed

Motion to approve the January 4, 2023, GCHD Board of Health special meeting minutes, as presented by:________________________ Second by:___________________________
Roll Call Vote Needed
Burgin_____  Moran_____  Sterling_____  Wildenthaler_____  Yocum_____             
Passed          Failed

As requested, attached is a sheet of the different tasks for completing the remaining accreditation requirements, along with ideas of what can meet those requirements. However, this will soon be outdated. Accreditation Specialist Sara Houchins will spend the day at the health department on Friday and will work mostly with Andy (and Jason when he is available) to work on the requirements.

If the December meeting minutes are approved during this meeting, then Jason will be ready to work on and complete the requirements for Domain 12, which have to do with assessing meeting minutes for two different quarters. Jason will use the meeting minutes from July-September 2022 for one quarter and will also use the October-December 2022 meeting minutes for the second quarter.

Regarding the health surveys, the vast majority of them were completed on paper instead of electronically. Over 200 paper health survey results have now been digitized and plans will start this week to analyze the health data, which will help us make tremendous progress on Domain 1, Domain 9, and the Strategic Plan.

Jason contacted PHAB for clarity about if there is a deadline extension because of the new accreditation website migration, meaning the current website was down for several weeks. Jason was first told that there would be an extension depending on the length of the migration, but then someone else later said that the extension doesn't apply to us since our deadline wasn't until March. Jason reached out for clarification because of the mixed messages. In response, he was told that if we wanted to request additional time for the deadline because of the new website migration, or for the COVID extension which is only granted this year, now is the time to let them know how much additional time we'd like to request.

As discussed at the June 2022 BOH meeting, this item will remain on the agenda and revisited monthly to discuss updates and what can be done so GCHD can be in a place where we are ready for the Galion City School District contract again.

In December, Galion City Schools received notification that the report from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) for the vision and hearing student screenings was not submitted to ODH from the school nurses (while our school nurses had a contract for school year 2021-2022). Thankfully, that turned out to be a mistake and Kara was able to prove that it actually was completed. Shortly after she completed that report during the previous school year, Kara received a confirmation email afterwards that the report was submitted to ODH, and she forwarded that confirmation email to her personal email. Since she no longer has access to her school email, she had to use that confirmation email from her personal email account to show we successfully completed that ODH report.

Among other things, House Bill 507 contains food survey language, which will affect the work of the Director of Environmental Health. This bill will go into effect in April 2023.

Discussion and election of new President Pro Tempore, since Dennis Sterling's term on the board nearly concludes and will no longer serve as the President Pro Tempore, as presented by:________________________ Second by:___________________________
Roll Call Vote Needed
Burgin_____  Moran_____  Sterling_____  Wildenthaler_____  Yocum_____             
Passed          Failed

A troubled individual came to the health department twice recently. On the day of this meeting, this person came a second time and made threatening remarks to staff.

Motion to approve the HC to proceed with the hiring of Penny Taylor as the Contracting & Credentialing Specialist, as a grant-funded position.

Motion to approve the HC/Nurse Practitioner to post for an opening of a phlebotomy contractor, select the contractor, and enter into the attached phlebotomy contract.