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a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad or his designee to execute the Renewal and Amendment 4 to the Professional Services Agreement with The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of the University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (UCSF) to provide child abuse specialist services, extending the term by twelve months (retroactive to October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023) for a revised full agreement term of August 1, 2018 to September 30, 2023, and adding $58,932, for a revised total not to exceed amount of $209,277 in the aggregate.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Chief Executive Officer for Natividad or his designee to execute the Renewal and Amendment 4 to the Professional Services Agreement with The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of the University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (UCSF) to provide child abuse specialist services, extending the term by twelve months (retroactive to October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023) for a revised full agreement term of August 1, 2018 to September 30, 2023, and adding $58,932, for a revised total not to exceed amount of $209,277 in the aggregate.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Natividad operates the Sally P. Archer Child Advocacy Center and Bates-Eldredge Child Abuse
Clinic, where healthcare providers perform medical-legal examinations to help evaluate suspected or actual child abuse cases and provide documented evidence to assist in the prosecution of criminal cases. The clinic also provides forensic interviewing conducted by highly qualified and credentialed interviewers. It is the only service of its kind in Monterey County.
In order to provide these critical services, Natividad has an agreement with UCSF, for which a board-certified child abuse specialist physician, Dr. Christopher Stewart, provides supervision, direction and expert con...
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