We'll uh we'll uh open the meeting with uh prayer and then we have uh bishop uh Rob to uh uh to to lead us.

Thank you, uh Bishop Lyons.

Welcome.

As we gather together today, we hold with gratitude those who serve the health and well-being of our community, those who meet people in moments of crisis and vulnerability, whether in homes, on the streets, in hospitals, nursing facilities, or counseling spaces.

As we observe Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, we pause with a moment of silence for those in our community who have struggled with despair, those we have lost, and those who continue to walk their journey toward hope.

We also give thanks for the steady presence of caregivers, first responders, and advocates of many disciplines who remind our neighbors that they are not alone.

As our board deliberates today, may their stewardship strengthen the work of the various divisions of the Health and Hospital Corporation, that dignity may be upheld in times of illness, hope extended to those who struggle, and that the mission of care entrusted to each of us may flourish and grow.

Amen.

Thank you, Bishop Rob.

Uh with that, I'll uh do a roll call uh uh of the members uh and just uh so I will uh uh uh trustee Hannafi, I know is not with us today, uh nor is uh trustee Dr.

Fish, so I will uh will not include them in the rule call.

But uh Vice Uh Chairperson Drummer present Trustee Du Set Trustee Horn Present, Trustee O'Brien, present, and trustee Lozard is also present, so uh it'll just be the uh seven.

Uh with that, uh I uh would introduce the consent agenda, which consists of the board minutes from August 2026, uh 2025 of the uh treasurer and the uh CFO report, uh the uh appointments, reappointments, and changes in privileges, and the uh psychiatry associate uh staff clinical privilege form.

Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

So moved second, then moved by uh trustee Horn, seconded by uh Chairperson, uh Vice Chairperson Drummer.

Uh all in favor if uh I'll just do a roll call uh uh vice chairperson Drummer.

Yes, uh Trustee Du Set.

Yes, Trustee Horn, yes, Trustee O'Brien, yes, and trustee Lazard Vuchess motion carries um uh 5-0.

Um with that, there are uh no other action items on the agenda, and we will move to the uh report section.

Um here uh and first is Health and Hospital Corporation.

I'll introduce uh our CEO uh uh and President Paul Babcock, and I'll let you uh introduce the uh we'll be down the line af after you're finished.

Uh thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Um my comments and remarks are brief today for uh for the board.

Uh first and foremost, I think the most you know critical thing for the board to know is that tomorrow evening at 5 30 in the public assembly room, uh the health and hospital will be reporting uh or presenting our budget to the city county council municipal corporations committee.

Um I think last month I said that we were second on the agenda, and uh we have now been moved to last.

So depending upon the things that occur with the library and indigo, it could be a long evening, though I hope that it will not be.

We've had extensive conversations um with the council, with leadership in the city, um across the board, and they may um be just glad to get out of there later in the night.

We don't anticipate any uh issues or challenges, but we are ready.

The team will be there.

Um so I just wanted to let you know that, and if you want to watch it, you can watch it online and channel 16.

Starts at 5:30.

I can't tell you what time we'll go on, so you may end up getting stuck watching the whole committee meeting.

Um of us like to do that, some probably not.

Um second, I'd like to introduce uh our new chief compliance officer, Lisa Taylor.

She's here in the audience.

Um Lisa went through the extensive process to be chosen for the new position.

Uh, we look forward to bringing her on board.

Today is her second day.

Um so Monday was her first.

We've got her on boarded and look forward to introducing her to all the folks in the um on the organization, and a great addition to the team.

Uh third, just briefly uh for the board, all of our construction is on schedule except for, and I'm sorry, Dr.

Dan, I don't mean to make fun of you.

Uh, but IEMS, they're delayed due to a permit issue, so it's not really your fault.

Um, but we're excited to have all the things moving, and and as always, uh, board members or members of the uh the team, you know, come out to 38th Street.

You can see the change we're making to the area from you know North 38th in Arlington all the way down to 38th in Keystone to 38th in Muller.

You know, the organization is making an impact uh in the city, and it it shows and you can see it.

And then finally, just as a point of personal privilege, I'd like to wish uh trustee drummer a happy early birthday.

His birthday's on Monday.

And AI warned you I was gonna do it.

Um so unfortunately it doesn't fall on the board day, we're being more impactful, but happy birthday, and I'll turn it back over to you, Mr.

Chair.

I don't know.

Well, I guess we won't sing happy birthday.

All right.

Uh thank you.

Uh uh thank you, Paul.

Uh so then I'll turn it over to uh our interim CFO and assistant treasurer uh James uh Simpson to uh for his part of the report.

Thank you, Chairman Lazard.

Uh just a few updates today to build on what Paul had mentioned on the budget after the Muni Corps presentation tomorrow.

The Municorp committee will meet again on October 1st.

That's when they do their review and analysis of our budget, and that's when they'll vote on if they would recommend a passage recommendation to the full council.

We expect the full council to vote on our 2026 budget on October 6th at their next council meeting or at that scheduled council meeting.

Then one other update I wanted to give before the the financial update is an update on the BABS bonds refunding, refinance and refunding deal.

We've done one of the two rating calls.

We met we had a ratings call with Moody's on September 9th.

We had a call scheduled with SP, but it did get rescheduled.

They didn't we had a miscommunication with the teams that they needed on there.

So that's been rescheduled for September 23rd.

Um then looking forward to to wrapping up this this deal, due diligence calls and responses are the week with the weeks of uh September 24th and 30th.

Then all ratings were expect to have them completed by the 30th, the responses on the ratings.

Then we're gonna post the preliminary official statements October 1st or 2nd, and then pricing the week of October 13th, and then a closing November uh 5th.

So we the the schedule did get pushed back a couple weeks based on that we had to reschedule that call with SP, but we are still on target to have this deal closed by the by the end of this year.

And then the financials, the budgetary revenue and expenditures report as of August 31st.

Um I'll give an update as of August 31st and then the projections through the end of the year.

Through August 31st, the change in fund balance is a decrease of 12.1 million.

This is compared to 13.3 million last month.

Um, and it did improve, so the decrease has improved.

Uh this is a result.

We know the original decrease is a result of the loss of HCI, and also our IGT intergovernmental transfers exceeding budget uh up year to date, but these are partially offset by strong interest and investment income, the health department revenues, as well as all expenditure categories being better than budget through the end of August.

And then our projections through the end of the year, they do have the general fund decrease improving.

Last month we projected 28.9 million.

This month we're projecting a decrease of 23.2 million.

Uh, the improvement is you know, we we have an additional month of data.

Investment or interest rates have remained strong.

We were a little conservative in the projections for the remainder of the year, so we get another month of actual replace it with the the projection, and then also we have another another month's worth of expenditure data too.

So those have came in a little bit below our projections.

So that accounts for that five million dollars of improvement on the the fund balance decrease.

Um so that would conclude my report unless there's any questions from the board.

Are there any questions for uh for James?

Hearing none, I'll move on to uh uh Dr.

Kimberly McElroy Jones, our chief uh culture officer to give us an update.

Thank you, Chairman Lazard uh and trustees of the board.

Here are some of the highlights that we discussed in our committee meeting today.

Um we uh reaffirmed our commitment to the development of our staff in our organizational culture.

Um we continue to deploy our workshops across all divisions.

Uh we have just completed a lab experience for our newest cohort of trainers in the system, which started on September 10th, um, and we are continuing to move our health engagement zone intervention projects closer to actual implementation in the across the city.

Under the patient care and delivery of services pillar, Dr.

Don Haupt shared how she engages her leadership and staff teams and developing the culture to impact patient care and delivery of service in addition to how it impacts our community, and under our community impact and corporate engagement pillar, uh Gregory Porter, executive vice president of external affairs gave us a look into our HHC Communications and Public Relations Department uh responsibilities and their accomplishments in addition, in addition to providing an update on our covering kids and families program, which all fall under his purview.

I'll now turn it over to uh Felicia Rosberg to provide updates regarding supplier engagement and economic impact.

Thank you.

Good afternoon, everyone.

For the period ending July 31st, 2025.

Our total supplier engagement applicable spend was 183 million,690 dollars, 690, 637 and 18 cents.

Um, our total spend across all categories was 21,261,183.76, which was 11.57% diversity spend of our applicable spend.

When we look at our spend categories, our goal for minority owned businesses was 15%.

Um, our applicable spend was a little over 14.3 million dollars, which is 7.80%.

Our goal for women business enterprises was 8%.

Our applicable spend, I'm sorry, our spend was um 4.9 million dollars with a percentage of 2.68%.

Our spend with veteran owned businesses was one point a little over 1.7 million dollars, which was 0.95%.

Our goal was three percent, and our goal for disabled owned business enterprises was one percent, and our actual spend was 0.15 percent, um, with the dollar being a little over 268,000 dollars.

And that completes my report.

Thank you.

And with that, I'll turn it back over to you, Chairman.

Thank you, Dr.

McRoy Jones.

Um, are there any questions from anybody from the board?

Seeing none, uh I'll turn it over to our director and chief medical officer, Dr.

Virginia Kane, to uh give us an update uh on the uh Marion County Public Health Department.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh Chair uh Bob Lazar.

Uh Madison uh Wintrop was from our communicable diseases presented on our safe syringe access and support, which provides harm reduction services to people who inject drugs in Indianapolis since April 2019.

The program operates under the declaration of a public health emergency that was made in 2018 regarding a tenfold increase in acute hepatitis C cases related to injection drug use over the previous five years.

Since the launch of the program, the rate of acute hepatitis C in Marion County has dropped from 8.7 cases per 100,000 in 2018 to just 1.6 cases per 100,000 in 2024.

This presentation provided an overview of program operations and outcomes.

The reason why we're mentioning it is that the Indiana law concerning syringe exchange will currently sunset in July of 2026, which will be up for discussion with this upcoming legislative session.

Our total operating budget is 123 million dollars.

We are favorable to budget and operating expenses by 1.6 million dollars in terms of our miscellaneous revenues and fees for service.

We are favorable to budget by 2 million dollars.

In our health first Indiana funds, we continue to partner with community organizations, and we anticipate we will spend 10 million dollars over the 2025 2026 budget year.

Just some highlights recently.

The Mary County Health Department participated in the Mike Epp's, the local comedian celebrities community festival in Washington Park.

We provided the food truck inspections and the health zone zoning, which included our SMALMobile, our Charge Williams Prostate Mobile Unit, our immunizations, Bellflower, Sexy Transmitted Diseases, which represented housing, healthy homes, environmental consumer management, and senior care program, and are covering kids and families.

Our Healthy Homes, Environmental Consumer Management and Senior Care Program was awarded a $25,000 grant from the Central Indiana Senior Forum Fund.

This money is going to be used to educate seniors on slip and fall hazards in their homes, how to cook safely and aging in place.

We're also going to look to replace safety items, such like maybe grab bars and bathrooms and things of that nature.

Our school field program continues to provide back to school walk-in and school located vaccine clinics.

We uh served over 600 students with 1,350 vaccines given.

We also train the teachers as school staff and stop the bleed.

This is case you have trauma in the school system, what to do until uh emergency personnel arrive.

And we do CPR classes, training to with 81 participating.

So, folks, if you haven't got your back to school clinics in August, don't despair.

We're offered several more opportunities to get their required vaccinations.

We're offering it on Saturdays at our clinic.

Um September the 20th, 8 to 12 p.m.

at NETO.

Um, October the 18th, 8 to 12 p.m.

Mondays from 2 to 6 in the afternoon in our South District, and Wednesday, October the 29th, 2 to 6 p.m.

at our other uh clinic.

So thank you.

That's all I have to report.

Thank you, Dr.

Kane.

Uh are there any questions for Dr.

King?

Seeing none, uh, we will uh move to the uh to Eskenazi Health, and I'll turn it over to uh Dr.

Lisa Harris, our CEO.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair and uh trustees of the board.

I just I have a handful of announcements uh to make, all good news.

Uh, first is that uh for the sixth consecutive year of the Eskenazi Health Stroke Center was recognized by the American Heart Association with the Get with the Guidelines in several categories, the ultimate one being their stroke gold, which is overarching uh all of the areas, uh also the elite honor role within that area, and then uh another tar another um designation related to management of patients with type 2 diabetes.

Uh, this all rolls up to uh quality of care uh for individuals.

The whole notion we well, I think we all appreciate that time is brain, and so the quicker we can get individuals to uh definitive intervention from Bolysis when indicated, uh, and then fall and then appropriate uh therapy post-stroke, uh, the better the outcomes, better survival rate, and better long-term outcomes.

So uh congratulations to uh the group for what it takes.

These are very rigorous uh guidelines, and there's not much uh wiggle room allowed, and so uh it's a it's absolutely an all-inclusive uh team effort uh that rolls up to that uh success.

I'm happy to announce that Dr.

Graham Carlos uh has uh we've recently named him our chief medical officer of specialty care.

He will be working uh closely with Dr.

Rosiniak, who is our chief medical officer and the rest of the leadership team.

He is well known to our uh team, uh has had uh progressive levels of leadership within Eskenazi Health in this role in particular.

Uh we talked before about how uh specialty care increasing specialty care access uh and capacity is going to be uh a focus for this year.

He will be leading that, working with operational and nursing leadership to improve our space utilization of financial stewardship, all things related to the operations of the specialty clinic.

And he will also continue to serve in the role that he's been in for the past several years, which is as the chief physician executive for Indiana University health providers at Escanazi Health.

So this is a key liaison role with our partners at IU Health Physicians in staffing our specialty care clinics.

So he will work to continue to promote alignment and collaboration in those ways and foster even stronger partnerships and more seamless care for patients across the two systems.

So Dr.

Carlos has been on the School of Medicine faculty since 2011, has had numerous uh awards, primarily for teaching, but also in a number of areas related to leadership.

Secondly, our partners at St.

Margaret's Hospital Guild and the Versity Blood Center of Indianapolis announced the winners of their annual AIM award, which is Achievement in Medicine, and those individuals are Megan Porter and Claire Willard, and they were honored as co-recipients for their work in palliative care.

And the Achievement and Medicine Award honors a physician or other health care professional at Eskenazi who upholds the tradition of excellence in health care within their respective areas and the communities they serve.

So Megan is a social worker with our palliative care team.

She also serves as our program's hospice coordinator, and she was nominated for the award for advocating for vulnerable patients by bridging care gaps, coordinating care across teams, and ensuring that all patients' medical and social needs are met with strong connections to the community in doing that work.

She's been with us at Eskenazi Health for eight years and works in both the inpatient and outpatient settings.

Dr.

Willard serves as the medical director for our Eskenazi Health Palliative Care Program.

And she has also chaired our ethics committee since 2017, is recognized for bringing ethics expertise, sound judgment, compassion to the most difficult situations in medicine and often to our most vulnerable patients.

Her dedication to patients is evident, especially when discussing life-threatening illness and having those tough those discussions at the end of life.

Notably, she was very embarrassed and almost speechless to receive the award.

It was comfortable sharing.

What's important is she's very comfortable in the conversations that really matter and has been recognized throughout her career for all the support that she gives all of the clinical team in that way.

So these award recipient recipients are selected by St.

Margaret's Hospital Guild, and most know this is an organization that has been a key partner in supporting Eskenazi's health mission since 1907, raising nearly 15 million dollars over those ensuing years to support the work of Eskenazi Health within our system and our broader community.

Then finally, we uh learned a couple of weeks ago that we have again been recognized by as Indiana's top hospital for community benefit and avoiding overuse by the Lowen Institute.

Community benefit is a measure of the extent of hospital investment in providing uh uncompensated care, community uh focusing on community health, uh also providing financial assistance, a lot of community investment, and the uh portion of individuals uh receiving who are who we care for who uh are Medicaid uh beneficiaries.

Avoiding overuse is very consistent.

It's a measure of the model of care that we've talked about that really avoids uh using uh tests that aren't necessary.

So we don't have a model that's built on trying to do as many tests and procedures as we can because that's what you get paid for, but rather being thoughtful about what which of those uh procedures actually benefit patients and being judicious in use of resources in that way.

The Lowen Institute is an independent think tank that advocates for a just and caring system for health, and it combines all these metrics of health equity and value alongside patient outcomes and looks at all of the hot the more than 2700 acute care and 800 critical access hospitals nationwide.

So we have are happy to have been recognized by the Low Institute for the past five years.

So and finally, I want to make sure that members of the board are aware that there are three bids in your board packet.

These are provided for review in anticipation of discussion and voting next month when Siegfried of Pagani, our director of supply team will be here to discuss those bids and answer any questions that you have.

Thank you.

Happy to take questions if you have them now.

Thank you, Dr.

Harris.

Are there any questions for Dr.

Harris?

And again, I would echo and encourage board members to look at those three procurement items in the in the board packet.

They'll be repeated in the board packet with some additional information next month.

I'll turn it over now to Dr.

Ashley Overly, who is our get your title correctly here, our CEO of the Sandra Eskenazi Mental Health Center and for your update.

Thank you very much.

Today I would like to share with you some of the ongoing progress that we have seen with our certified community behavioral health clinic implementation.

So one of the major focuses of CCBHC has been to increase access to timely services.

Last Friday, the state went live with their dashboard of our CCBHC measures, and we were able to see that the state can see that we are providing this consistently.

And so we are successful in getting individuals same day access for appointments.

The average is 0.2 days actually.

We are also successful in meeting a quality requirement of getting individuals in for an approved therapeutic service within 10 business days of their first contact.

That means you get your intake and then you don't have to wait a month or two months before your therapeutic services start.

We actually are getting people in within 4.8 days of their initial request for services.

And so that's actually 4.8 days, not just from that intake, but from their initial request for services.

So we're very proud of that and pleased to be recognized by the state as being successful in meeting those metrics and being able to report that data.

Jeff Catlett, our chief operating officer, and Jim Richter, our clinical director, have actually been invited to present to a statewide meeting of community mental health centers and C C BHCs to report out on C C BHC data and quality metrics.

So we are very grateful for internally the support and teamwork that has allowed us and enabled us to be successful in reporting this data.

And so in particular, our EPIC teams and analytic teams have been extremely helpful in getting us uh creating that capacity for us to report those things.

So I also want to share a program highlight from one of the new clinical programs that we've been able to implement through CCBHC.

One of the new programs that we've been able to implement is called assertive community treatment or ACT, and this is one of the required services through CCBHC.

ACT is a program that is dedicated to serving individuals who have the highest level of need related to their mental illness.

So from 1965 to 1975, the state hospital population in the United States declined by 80%.

So more than 400,000 state hospital patients were discharged during this period.

And it was during this time that ACT was developed, and it was initially called a program that was a training in community living.

The developers of the program argued that the existence of patients in hospitals who seemed, quote, undischargeable actually suggested the failure of the hospital as an effective treatment venue rather than failure of the patients to get better.

And so researchers and clinicians worked together to create a program that directly supported developing skills and activities of daily living and problem solving in the community rather than in the hospital to help support those patients' independence in the community.

And so over time, ACT teams have been repeatedly demonstrated to reduce hospitalization, improve patient functioning, improve employment and social skills.

Act teams have uh validated fidelity scales that define things like staff to patient ratios, specific staff composition, frequency of contact, and other operational standards that you have to meet in order to be categorized as an ACT team.

So our act team has 15 staff members, including a dedicated psychiatrist.

Our current caseload is 61.

We have capacity for a hundred patients total.

And so we feel very excited to be seeing the kinds of successes with our team that ACT is specifically designed for.

And so we are now able to meet with clients while they're hospitalized and then transfer them to our ACT team either same day or neck with next day appointments after discharge.

Um we even had we've now been able to administer long acting injectable medications in the community and see lots of patients who've been unwilling to come to clinics for a long time.

So we had patients who had not seen a psychiatrist sometimes in years, and now we have a psychiatrist who can go out and meet with them in where they are living.

Um and so in some cases, this has helped avoid police interventions to bring people to the hospital or to the clinic.

Um we also had an experience where there was a the team was able to quickly arrange a team meeting with a boarding home staff for someone who had been recently discharged from the hospital, and they were able to create a plan with the patient and the team and the boarding home staff that helped manage both the patient's psychiatric illness and their diabetes and helped avoid a re-hospitalization very quickly after that person had been discharged.

So it's very exciting to see these kinds of successes.

Um it was really encouraging to meet with the team and hear how excited they are to be able to provide care in this kind of model.

One of them said, I finally feel like I have all the people I need to to do what we're here to do.

Um, and so I think that's really exciting as well.

So we're very this is what I see as another win of the CCBHC model.

Um, and so just wanted to make keep you in the loop of how that's going.

Thank you.

That concludes my report.

Thank you.

Are there any questions for Dr.

Overly?

Seeing none.

Uh, before I turn it over to our uh uh Indianapolis Emergency Management Services, the chief uh uh of that.

I'm gonna just uh briefly tell you that on my way home last night from the uh Eskenazi Health Foundation meeting at uh about 6 35 at the corner of 80 80 uh 2nd and Dean Road.

I was going north, and one of your M17 ambulance, sirens blaring, no one was stopping going east and west.

They started to pull out to the intersection, hawking their horn, still no one is stopping.

But they they did what they were supposed to do, as you've explained to me why you have less accidents with your ambulances now than in previous years, and I got firsthand book at that last night.

So I'll turn it over to Dr.

Dan O' to Dr.

Dan O'Donnell.

I appreciate that.

I should say that concludes my report.

I think that's a lot.

Uh but no, I uh along those lines, thank you very much.

September is has been a month of celebration for IMS.

Uh we have a few events that have been celebrating our service and the skill that our providers provide every day.

Last week we held held the third annual IEMS Gains, which is our internal skills competition that we do with our crews.

We had actually a record number, 14 crews signed up to compete, and I'm excited to announce that Michaela Keller and Elijah Chenevez were our champions.

They were actually awarded last night.

We actually we finally brought back our IMS awards banquet.

This is something that we had not done since 2019.

Uh and we are having two.

We had one last night and then again one tomorrow night uh to allow all four of our shifts to be able to make it.

Um and again, though this shines a light on our providers who've truly exemplified the best that IMS has to offer.

Winners were nominated by their peers and then voted on by our peers.

We actually had uh a fun fact over 140 of our providers received at least one vote for one of the categories.

So again, that's that's tremendous.

And I want to just for the record, want to make a note of the winners are.

So again, for our A and B shift, our EMT of the year was Claire Myers for A Shift for B shift was Ariana Raviola.

Our paramedic of the year for A Shift was Jeremy Trent, and B Shift was Hannah Bochamp.

Again, they find out tomorrow, so if you know them, please don't tell them.

Uh C and D, they were celebrated last night, the EMT of the year on C shift was Bertha Martinez.

The D shift EMT of the year was Brian Soriano.

Paramedic of the year on C Shift was Alison Cole.

On D Shift was Will Harman.

Our preceptor of the year was Will Harmon.

Again, he took home a lot of awards last night, kind of like the pit at the Academy Awards.

Our FTO of the year is Calvin Hicks.

A few of you in this room may know Calvin.

Calvin has been a staple of our of our organization for over 30 years, uh serving on Medic One just here, and he's actually going to get his paramedic uh here shortly.

Our support person of the year was Dave Bop, and our educator of the year was Brian Greer.

So again, we're celebrating all these individuals on two different nights.

It's a nice relaxed uh gathering at the Raskeller, and it's it's been well received so far.

It is, you know, because it's been so long, I think people are a little gun shy on getting together, but turns out we do like each other and like to see each other in social situations.

So some upcoming special events, those never stop.

September again will be busy thanks to the winning streak by the fever.

We'll be supporting the WNBA playoffs.

First game is tonight.

We'll be uh part of the Roche Diagnostics Hazardous Materials Materials exercise on uh the 23rd.

We'll be participating in the Lily Day of Service on the 25th, supporting it medically, be part of the Circle City Classic Parade, and then we're still in we're continuously preparing uh for the NCAA Final Four, which will be happening uh April 3rd through 6th of next year.

And then finally, uh we are excited to welcome uh and play host of the EMS World Convention in October.

Uh this is the largest EMS focused conference in the world, and we're excited to support the activities, and we've partnered with various organizations to hold ride-alongs for uh conference attendees who signed up and completed our registered background check.

With that, it concludes my report.

Are there any questions for Dr.

O'Donnell?

Seeing none, uh that'll turn it over to uh our vice president of long-term care, uh Julie Wy.

Thank you, Chairman Lazard and trustees of the board.

August updates include resident occupancy remains steady at 76 percent.

The quality review team conducted a total of 20 visits, 10 administrative and clinical, and 10 additional environmental emergency preparedness and life safety code on August 6th.

14 O2 and E or opportunities to nursing excellence graduates were honored during a luncheon, graduating eight LPNs and six RNs.

This program is in its 17th year, and 72% or a hundred or a hundred and eighty-four graduates remain actively employed.

Lastly, deficiency-free annual surveys for August include Avalon Village in Leganier and Lake Point Village in Scottsburg.

This concludes my report.

Thank you, Julie.

Are there any questions for for Julie?

All right.

Seeing none, I'll uh turn it over for our final report from the Essenazi Health Foundation to our executive vice president Angela White.

Thank you, Chairman Lazard.

And as you referenced, we had our foundation board meeting yesterday afternoon, so I'll just give a few updates from that.

Our board is very uh appreciative of having team members from Eskenazi Health to report to the board.

So we heard two reports at the beginning of the meeting, one from Dr.

Ferries Row, who's the Chief of Service of Women's Services here, and from Dr.

Don Hout, who's the CEO of Eskenazi Health Center.

And so both of them gave updates on their areas, and board was very engaged, lots of questions for them.

And then Dr.

Harris gave an update on the financial position of Eskenazi Health and what we've discussed at these meetings.

And again, board very engaged and interested in her update.

We've also continued our strategic planning process.

So Deborah Daniels, our board vice chair and chair of strategic planning, brought the board up to speed on that process.

And as I mentioned in our last meeting, we're in a relaunching a behind the scenes of healing program where we will curate a specific tour or emergent experience for those who want to come and learn more about Eskenazi Health.

And so we encouraged our board to begin to think about whom they might invite for that opportunity.

And I offer that same thing here for the HHC board.

We'd be happy to entertain your guests and give them a behind the scenes tour of what happens here at Eskenazi Health.

Also on the fundraising side, we're focusing.

I can't believe I'm saying year-end giving and getting ready to focus on that.

Um, but continuing to focus on raising money to support our food is medicine program here at Eskenazi Health, and also our FerryBach match to support our Ferrybock program its expansion and continued sustainability of that program.

Our final year-end board meeting will be December 8th.

And at that meeting, the board will vote on new members to begin their term of service in 2026 and also new board leadership.

So I'll be certain to keep you apprised of that.

And that concludes my report.

Thank you.

Are there uh any questions from the board for Angela?

Seeing none, um, is there any unfinished business from any of the board members?

Or any new business from any of the board members?

And I've been informed that no one signed up for public comment, so the date of our next meeting will be Tuesday, October 21st, 2025.

And I would ask for a motion to adjourn.

So it's been by Trustee O'Brien.

Seconded.

Second.

Seconded by uh Trustee Horn, and we are adjourned.

Thank you.