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Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute the Third Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement (A-13043) with The Regents of the University of California, a California Constitutional corporation, on behalf of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (UCSF) to provide pediatric hospitalist services, extending the term by twelve months (April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of February 1, 2016 to March 31, 2021, and adding $236,735 for a revised total not to exceed amount of $1,099,296 in the aggregate.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute the Third Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement (A-13043) with The Regents of the University of California, a California Constitutional corporation, on behalf of the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics (UCSF) to provide pediatric hospitalist services, extending the term by twelve months (April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of February 1, 2016 to March 31, 2021, and adding $236,735 for a revised total not to exceed amount of $1,099,296 in the aggregate.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
NMC operates a twelve bed pediatric unit and an eighteen bed maternal infant unit providing medical care for newborns, children and adolescents, as well as hospital based services for the pediatric population (age 0-21) through NMC's emergency medicine, trauma programs, general surgery and outpatient specialty clinics. NMC currently provides the majority of emergency and inpatient care in Monterey County with over 100,000 visits over the last five years.
NMC has an agreement with UCSF to provide one pediatric hospitalist physician for direct patient care services and chief pediatric hospit...
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