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a. Accept a $275,000 Grant Award from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), in partnership with the Center for Care Innovations (CCI) and Physicians for a Healthy California to support the County of Monterey in operationalizing better access to clinically appropriate COVID-19 therapeutics through improved testing, prescribing, and dispensing; and
b. Ratify the execution by the Director of Health of the COVID-19 Test to Treat Grant Agreement, on behalf of the County of Monterey for activities related to the Test to Treat grant, in the amount of $275,000 and effective October 26, 2022, to August 26, 2023.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Accept a $275,000 Grant Award from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), in partnership with the Center for Care Innovations (CCI) and Physicians for a Healthy California to support the County of Monterey in operationalizing better access to clinically appropriate COVID-19 therapeutics through improved testing, prescribing, and dispensing; and
b. Ratify the execution by the Director of Health of the COVID-19 Test to Treat Grant Agreement, on behalf of the County of Monterey for activities related to the Test to Treat grant, in the amount of $275,000 and effective October 26, 2022, to August 26, 2023.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Health Department Clinic Services Bureau (Health Department) operates ten community clinic sites designated as Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) which provide preventive, primary, and specialty medical care services.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes for Health have indicated that rapidly connecting people who test positive for COVID-19 with available treatments is effective in decreasing morbidity and mortality from COVID-19. To be effective, these treatments must be initiated as soon as possible after diagnosis and within five to seven days of symptom onset. Therefore, expanding "test to treat" p...
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