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MEMO-Jeffrey L. Barnhart Page 3 April 3, 1996 The Health Authority is a good idea for Cabarrus County for the following reasons: (1) Creates new public health entity with greater operational flexibility to adapt to changing health care market demands; (2) Facilitates county-wide health planning by increasing collaboration between public and private health service providers; (3) The county payroll is significantly reduced; (4) The county's cost for indigent health care is Stabilized for the foreseeable future; (5) The Authority insulates and protects the county from financial risks as financing health care becomes more of a local responsibility; (6) The Authority will allow for improved efficiency of public health operations (revamping personnel system and reducing administrative costs); and (7) Provides opportunities for public and private health service providers to contractually join together to provide selected services; thereby eliminating unnecessary and costly duplication of services. The Health Authority will perform the following functions: (1) Assuring conditions in which the people of this region can be healthy; (2) Regularly and systematically collect, assemble, analyze, and make available information on the health of the community, including statistics on health status, community health needs, and epidemiologic and other studies of health problems; (3) Assure that services necessary to promote the public health are provided, either by encouraging action by other entities or by cooperating with other entities to provide the needed services; (4) Policy development and leadership that foster local involvement and a sense of ownership, that emphasize local needs, and that advocate equitable distribution of public resources and complimentary private activities commgnsurate with community needs;