1/11/2012 BOARD OF HEALTH Executive Session

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or f S*fpaR•4* own Mash e Y S Sa ll } _ #+ a� w r • k fN. 16Great Neck Road North . ;-0LEE Mashpee, Massachusetts 02649 BOARD of HEALTH - EXECUTIVE SESSION Mashpee Town Hell — Conference Room 3 } Minutes of the Meeting of Wednesday, January 1 2012 Board Members Present: Also Present: Lucy Burton, Chairman Glen Harrington, Health Agent Kalliope Egloff, Co-Chairman Burton Kaplan, Clerk Chairman Lucy Burton called the Executive Session meeting to order at 8:01 PM. Glen Harrington stated that he received a phone call from the Falmouth Hospital saying that a young woman came in over the weekend and stated that she was in contact with the gentleman who is suffering with rabies. The doctor at the Falmouth.Hospital Emergency Boon started her n the anti-rabies vaccine. She does not have insurance, and there is a state statute that the Town in which she resides is responsible for paying for the treatment. Glen Harrington has very little details. Glen Harrington did get a call from the TINA Communicable Disease Nurse just before the Falmouth Hospital called. She does net have a confirmed case of rabies so Glen Harrington did not go through the usual channels to have the communicable disease reporting. He is still receiving information in'bits and pieces. Burton Caplan questioned if the treatment is similar.to someone receiving a dog bite not knowing if the dog had rabies or not. It is a series of sic Injections. Glen Harrington says the reporting is different beanie it is not a confirmed case. It is merely a suspected case and the reporting is basically non-existent if it is not a confirmed case. It did not go through the proper channels which typically Glen Harrington receives a fax from Ginny Brodeur and Communicable Disease Department at Falmouth Hospital, or it is put into MAVEN which is the state's electronic notification to all of the Boards of Health and the Communicable Disease nurses. Those channels were not followed because it was not confirmed. Glen Harrington received a call from the Financial office in the Falmouth Health saying that the Town of Mashpee now owes $6,314 to pay for the treatment and asking where to send the bill. Glen Harrington granted further information such as the woman's name and address to prove that she was a Mashpee resident. She works at a restaurant in Town and does live in Town. Bark Kaplan questioned whether the gentleman than had rabies worked there. Glen Harrington stated that the gentleman did not work at the restaurant. -He frequented the restaurant and was an acquaintance of the Froman. The VNA a planed to Glen Harrington that she shared a glass with hire. The restaurant is located in Ma hpee. The CDC called the owner, but they did not call the Board of Health to do any further investigation. At this point we really do not have to do anything else. Burt Kaplan asked if the potential patient i .being treated: and the Board of Health has nothing to do it other than lay the bill. Glen Harrington made the Town Tanager aware of it Wednesday 1