|
|
Members Present: Kristie Sluder, Tracey Turner, James Lane, Rosemary Weaver, Howard Graves, Bob Carey, Ruth Anne Bradshaw and Bill Cook
Members Excused: Candi Davis and Christine Smith
Members Absent: Leslie Huntley and Joe Crowder
WHN Staff: Heidi Pedersen and Arthur Carder
Guests: Rich Munger, Cathy Kocain, and Jessica Berry
|
Team: Consumer Family Advisory Committee
Date: November 23, 2009
Time Started: 6:01pm
Time Ended: 7:58pm
|
|
TOPIC
|
DISCUSSION/FINDINGS/CONCLUSIONS
|
RECOMMENDATIONS/ACTIONS
|
|
Community Connections
|
· Rutherford County is going to work with WHN to get more community forums presented.
· MAHEC – December 7th, 3-5pm – Three Year State Wide Independent Living Plan.
· Alpha Omega Health Provider office closed down in the northern counties of Yancey, Madison and Mitchell. RHA and ARP-Phoenix along with Patton Counseling are moving into the area to pick up the services that have been dropped.
|
|
|
Welcome & Introductions
|
Jessica Berry joined us as a guest from Transylvania County.
|
|
|
Approval of Agenda
|
Add Election of officers to item IX. Also add Hospital Admissions to item IX. Bob motioned, Howard second the motion and all approved. Agenda approved with additions.
|
|
|
Approval of October Minutes
|
Minutes approved with corrections.
|
|
|
Announcements
|
Kelly Rowe Rodriguez has resigned from CFAC. CFAC Executive Committee had a question regarding WHN Attorney fees. WHN was billed for 55.5 hours at $165/hr for a total of $9,157.50 for the hours around board memberships.
|
|
|
Action/ Crisis Items
|
Recruitment- Everyone needs to continue to recruit in their counties.
Paperwork Reduction – Cathy emailed the group an update of events on this item.
A list of Accomplished Items has been added to tonight’s packet.
Hospital Diversion will be removed from Accomplished list and added back to Action Plan. Bob suggested a committee to look closer into this issue. The committee will consist of: Bob Carey, Tracey Turner and Rosemary Weaver.
|
|
|
WHN Update
|
Three-way contracts to buy beds in the different counties to stop clients from going into Broughton State Hospital. So far we are using St. Luke’s, Mission, Rutherford and Pardee Hospitals.
CABHA – WHN is still waiting for more finalized details on this issue.
Medicaid Waiver – WHN is still participating in changes taking place.
Three Crisis points WHN is dealing with: Hospital Admissions, Jails (consumers going to jail that cannot get into the hospitals) and Capacity Issues with area providers. WHN will continue to work on ways to better these issues.
|
|
|
WHN Board Meeting Report
|
A letter written to the WHN Board regarding the concern about meeting in closed sessions has been added to your packets. Bob announced that Bill will be attending the WHN Board meetings and producing the reports now that Bill is no longer a Board member. Bob asked CFAC’s options on the report. Arthur suggests looking in the Relational Agreement around the issue of having concerns sent in writing. Bob will look over the Relational Agreement and see if this issue is applicable. Howard motions that Bob send the letter with Arthur’s suggestion, if applicable, to the WHN Board. Tracey seconds the motion and all agreed. Bob will send the letter with applicable addition to Heidi and Bill. Heidi will put the letter on CFAC Letterhead, have Bill sign, scan the item and email to Bev to put with WHN Board Meeting Items.
|
|
|
On-going/New Business
|
Election of Officers: Due to low membership, election of chair, vice chair and treasurer were elected at the December 2008 meeting. Does CFAC want to revisit election of officers?
After reviewing CFAC By-laws, some memberships are coming close to the end of their terms. In July 2006, the state adopted Statues and many CFAC’s across the state at that point decided to restart all CFAC membership terms as of July 2006. WHN CFAC needs to decide if they want to change the by-laws to include this exception. Ruth Anne motions that all CFAC terms start over July 2006 when State Statues were adopted. Kristie seconds the motion and all agreed.
Hospital Admissions: Discussed as an action plan item. See above.
|
· Cathy Kocian will write up an amendment to reflect this motion and email the amendment to the group for approval.
· Bob will add By-laws revision to the WHN Board report to inform the board of possible amendments.
|
|
Committee Reports
|
Executive: Minutes were emailed to all members.
Finance/Budget: Rosemary was given the monthly report. Anyone who would also like a copy of the report can let Heidi know and she will get you a copy.
CQI/QIAC: Draft minutes to the latest QIAC meeting were added to tonight’s packet. QIAC will be covering LBP issues more often.
Membership: All members need to continue recruitment within their counties. Transylvania, Rutherford, Henderson, Yancey and an At Large Members are all needed.
Peer Support: The State is still waiting for a rate around Peer Support Specialist Reimbursement. Donald Reuss is continuing to keep Rosemary in the loop. Cathy mentioned some Peer Support Network Conference Group.
|
· Executive/Membership Committee: Adding new members to the Membership Committee for new ideas will be added to the next CFAC Executive Committee agenda.
· Cathy will email the group the link to posted minutes from these conference calls.
|
|
