To: Interested Parties Requesting Notice of the North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council Meetings and Public Hearings
From: Floyd Cogley, Planner, Medical Facilities Planning Section
Date: December 4, 2008
Upon the recommendation of the Long-Term and Behavioral Health Committee and as ratified by the N.C. State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC), an eleven member Hospice Methodologies Task Force has been appointed by Dr. Dan Myers, Council Chairman. The task force is charged to fully evaluate the hospice home care and hospice inpatient need determination methodologies for the Proposed 2010 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP). The task force will also consider a comment submitted this year regarding reallocation of hospice inpatient need determinations based on a SMFP Policy. Task force membership is outlined below.
The first meeting of the task force has been set for Friday, January 23, 2009, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon in Conference Room 201 of the Council Building on the Dorothea Dix Hospital Campus. The address is 701 Barbour Drive, Raleigh, NC 27603.
The second meeting is set for Friday, February 20, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, and a third meeting is set for Friday, March 27, 2009 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. The second and third meetings will be at the same location as the first.
Documents produced for meetings will be posted on the DHSR website.
Please note that any changes to the task force meeting schedule will be posted on the meetings web page noted above. No additional letters will be sent regarding this task force. Therefore, please monitor the web page for information.
Feel free to contact the Planning Section at 919-855-3865 if you have questions.
| Thomas J. Pulliam, MD, Task Force Chair |
Member At-Large, State Health Coordinating Council |
| Peter Brunnick, CPA | Vice President of Finance and Operations Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region |
| Rita Burch | Executive Director, Hospice of Rutherford County, Inc. |
| Lynn Hardy | Executive Director, Carolina East Home Care & Hospice |
| David Lee | Performance Engineer, Southeastern Regional Medical Center |
| Steve Nuckolls | Member At-Large, State Health Coordinating Council |
| Jerry Parks | District Health Director, Albemarle Regional Health Services Member, State Health Coordinating Council representing Local Health Directors Association. |
| Sandy Roberson | President, Community Health, Inc. |
| Timothy Rogers | Chief Executive Officer, Association for Home and Hospice Care of North Carolina & South Carolina Home Care Association. Member, State Health Coordinating Council representing the Association |
| John Thoma | Chief Executive Officer, Hospice of Wake County, Inc. |
| David Work | Executive Director Emeritus, North Carolina Board of Pharmacy |
Resource People |
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| Judy Brunger, President and Chief Executive Officer, Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care | |
| Dawn Carter, President, Health Planning Source | |
Department of Health and Human Services Resource People |
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| Teresa Piezzo, Division of Medical Assistance | |
| Azzie Conley, Division of Health Service Regulation, Acute and Home Care Licensure and Certification | |
| Helen Alexander, Division of Health Service Regulation, Certificate of Need Section | |