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a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute a Program Letter of Agreement with Companeros en Salud for rotation of Natividad physician Residents with an agreement term retroactive to September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2021.
b. Approve the NMC Chief Executive Officer's recommendation to accept non-standard indemnification and insurance provisions within the agreement.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute a Program Letter of Agreement with Companeros en Salud for rotation of Natividad physician Residents with an agreement term retroactive to September 1, 2019 through August 31, 2021.
b. Approve the NMC Chief Executive Officer's recommendation to accept non-standard indemnification and insurance provisions within the agreement.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
The Natividad Family Medicine Residency will partner with Companeros en Salud, a Mexico based nonprofit organization, to provide high-quality, safe and ethical Global Health elective rotations for our family medicine residents. Natividad attracts residents seeking full spectrum family medicine training to prepare them to care for care for underserved and rural communities as well as to work in international sites. Global Health elective rotations are a standard educational offering at the majority of family medicine residency programs in the US. Companeros en Salud (CES) is a well-established nonprofit health organization that provides care to rural communities in the Mexican state of Chiapas. Their educational division is overseen by a UCSF affiliated pediatrician, Dr. Patrick Newman, who is well-known to our Natividad global health group, including Dr. Chris Carpenter who has worked extensively with Dr. Newman in Haiti.
This global health educational partnership will support month-long resident elective rotations ...
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