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a. Authorize and direct the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Professional Services Agreement with Trauma & Critical Care SFV Group to provide general and critical care surgery at NMC for an amount not to exceed $300,000 for the period July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015; and
b. Authorize the Purchasing Manager for NMC to sign up to three (3) amendments to this agreement where the total amendments do not exceed 10% 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 and direct the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the Professional Services Agreement with Trauma & Critical Care SFV Group to provide general and critical care surgery at NMC for an amount not to exceed $300,000 for the period July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2015; and
b. Authorize the Purchasing Manager for NMC to sign up to three (3) amendments to this agreement where the total amendments do not exceed 10% of the original contract amount, and do not significantly change the scope of work.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Natividad Medical Center (NMC) was recommended for future designation as the Level II Trauma Center for Monterey County. The American College of Surgeons requires acute critical care surgeons to be available in-house with a 15 minute response time for Level II Trauma Centers. In order to provide 24/7 care, it is necessary to develop and sustain a core team of quality surgeons made up of employed and independent contract physicians to provide daily call coverage in the Emergency Department and follow-up care to patients in the Intensive Care Unit.
Trauma & Critical Care SFV Group, a Medical Group, for which Bradley Joseph Roth M.D. is a board certified and fellowship trained acute care and critical care surgeon is licensed to practice medicine in California. NMC wishes to enter into an Agreement with Traum...
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