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MINUTES PARIS -LAMAR COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING MARCH 9, 1989 The Paris -Lamar County Board of Health met Thursday, March 9, 1989 at the Health Department Building. Dr. Bercher called the meeting to order at 7:18 A.M. The board members present were: Dr. Bercher, Dr. Cutrell, Dr. Strom, Dr. Brooks, and Mrs. Norment. The minutes from our previous meeting were reviewed and approved. The monthly report was given by Anthony Bethel. He announced that Dr. Hillhouse came down to the Health Dept. twice in the past two weeks. He is improving, but only stayed an hour each time. Dr. Gonzalez examined sixty patients last month. The nurses gave appointments to 69 girls to get 20 to show up for a clinic. There were four clinics with 15 to 20 girls per clinic. There was a small increase in giving Measles Vaccine last month due to the measles outbreak in Houston. Several students and teachers needed the vaccine before going to the Houston Livestock,Show and the State Basketball Tournament in Austin. East Texas has only 1000 doses of measles vaccine available. Anthony said that Duane Campbell , our cleaning man will be giving up this job by the end of April. The board asked that we submit three bids at our next meeting. Next, Title XX Funds were discussed. Three years ago, Mr. Ostergren of Dallas, Texas bid for Title XX Funds and got them. They will receive the funding for another year and a half or until Sept. 1990. A patient may qualify for Title XX Funds when they have to much income for medicaid, but have no health insurance. These funds cover all Family Planning Services. Dr. Bercher asked us to find out how much Title XX pays the doctors and hos- pital for Tubal Ligations. He said that our health department could really expand and have potential if we could have a full -time Director working here. He stated that the board needs to quit managing our clinic. Dr. Brooks expressed concern about whether Dr. Gonzalez would be adequate to run our clinic. More discussion followed concerning our need for a permanent doctor here. Then Dr. Bercher said that the board should meet alone in an Executive Session to discuss a Physcian- Director for our clinic. The board agreed to meet at the Holiday Inn on March 16, 1989. Anthony will send a letter to each member and arrange for the room. Mr. Haynes asked whether Gene Anderson or himself should be present at this meeting for financial reasons. It was agreed that Gene Anderson should attend. Dr. Strom had no success with calling Physcians' Services. Alice Anderson passed a Newsletter out to all board members explain- ing many projects that we as a clinic are involved with.