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Authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Seventh Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement (A-11427) with Medical Doctor Associates (MDA) to provide locum tenens services at NMC, adding $100,000 for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2012/2013 for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $1,500,000 in the aggregate (for the period February 1, 2009 to June 30, 2013).
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Seventh Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement (A-11427) with Medical Doctor Associates (MDA) to provide locum tenens services at NMC, adding $100,000 for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2012/2013 for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $1,500,000 in the aggregate (for the period February 1, 2009 to June 30, 2013).
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
NMC entered into an agreement with MDA on February 1, 2009; as amended March 1, 2010; July 1, 2010; March 1, 2011; July 1, 2011; December 1, 2011; and July 1, 2012 to provide locum tenens services. Locum tenens (temporary) physicians are utilized during periods when its employed/contracted physicians are not available (e.g., vacation; illness; continuing medical education; etc.) to provide health care services vital to NMC’s continued operation.
The expenditure of this agreement by fiscal year is as follows:
Fiscal Year 2009-10 $530,707
Fiscal Year 2010-11 $300,225
Fiscal Year 2011-12 $284,326
Fiscal Year 2012-13 (year to date) $203,087
The amount budgeted for Fiscal Year 2012/2013 was nearly reached due to the need for locum tenens physicians to cover for vacant positions in critical patient care areas of the hospital. NMC wishes to amend the agreement with MDA to add $100,000 for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2012/2013 in order to continue to utilize locum tenens physicians in these patient care areas. There is no increase to the p...
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