2007 Fall Meeting for TB Controllers

Documents will be posted soon.

October 22, 2007

California Depatment of Health Services Campus

850 Marina Bay Parkway

Richmond, CA

I. Review of Agenda and Housekeeping - Barbara Cole

II. TBCB Updates

A. Orders of Isolation/Work Exclusion v. Voluntary Agreement

B. Intervening before air travel of infectious TB patients

C. Out of state TB laboratory requirements and recourse for noncompliance

D. Local Assistance Awards

a. Federal TB Cooperative Agreement

b. Updated two-year allocation cycle, FY's 2008/2009 and 2009/2010

c. Funding complexity, acuity vs. morbidity; defining acuity

d. Planning and allocation of local assistance funds, options

III. Old Business

A. 2 proposed motions related to Practice Standards Survey:

1) Support CDC Guidelines instruction on interval for sputum collections 8-24 hours with one being first morning collection

2) Recommendation of annual testing of health care worker

IV. EC Committees/Workgroup Reports and Call for Volunteers

A. Education - Best Practices Webpage

B. Finance - Report of Activities

C. Guidelines - Priorities for Revisions/New Guidelines

V. New Business, Items from the Floor

A. Joint CTCA IUATLD-NAR Education Conference February 27 - March 1, 2008

B. Francis J. Curry National TB Center Announcements

VI. Advocacy

A. National Efforts: Appropriations, TB Legislation

B. State Efforts and Partners: CDPH, American Lung Association of California

C. Local Examples: Defending against local cuts, gaining local funding

VII. Media Workshop with Dan Wohlfeiler

Using the CI Guidelines media tools: template media release and talking points