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a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute the First Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement (A-14063) with Grace N. Deukmedjian M.D. to provide pediatric hospitalist services, extending the term by twenty-four months (January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of August 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021, and adding $200,000 for a revised total not to exceed amount of $400,000 in the aggregate; and
b. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for NMC or his designee to sign up to three (3) future amendments to this Agreement where the total amendments do not exceed 10% ($20,000) of the original contract amount and do not significantly change the scope of work.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute the First Amendment to the Professional Services Agreement (A-14063) with Grace N. Deukmedjian M.D. to provide pediatric hospitalist services, extending the term by twenty-four months (January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of August 1, 2018 to December 31, 2021, and adding $200,000 for a revised total not to exceed amount of $400,000 in the aggregate; and
b. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for NMC or his designee to sign up to three (3) future amendments to this Agreement where the total amendments do not exceed 10% ($20,000) of the original contract amount and do not significantly change the scope of work.
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.
In July 2017, the pediatric hospitalist program increas...
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