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Consider authorizing the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to approve the First Amendment to Professional Services Agreement with Jackson & Coker to provide referrals of locum tenens physicians at NMC, replacing the existing rate sheet in the current Agreement to add additional specialties and make non-substantial changes to existing specialties, for the period May 9, 2013 to March 31, 2014, without increasing the not to exceed amount of $200,000 or extending the term of the Agreement.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Purchasing Manager for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to approve the First Amendment to Professional Services Agreement with Jackson & Coker to provide referrals of locum tenens physicians at NMC, replacing the existing rate sheet in the current Agreement to add additional specialties and make non-substantial changes to existing specialties, for the period May 9, 2013 to March 31, 2014, without increasing the not to exceed amount of $200,000 or extending the term of the Agreement.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
On April 1, 2012, NMC entered into a professional services agreement with Jackson & Coker Locum Tenens a locum tenens company for the referrals of locum tenens physicians. NMC utilizes locum tenens (temporary) physicians during periods when its employed/contracted physicians are not available (e.g., vacation; illness; continuing medical education; etc.) to provide health care services vital to NMC's continued operation.
In order to find highly qualified temporary physicians that match the position we are trying to fill/cover and are available on sometimes a very short notice, it is necessary that NMC contract with multiple locum tenens companies with a combined annual maximum liability of $1,000,000. The actual cost of each contract is contingent upon the need to cover services, which is unpredictable by nature.
NMC pays locum tenens companies for phy...
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