County of Monterey - File #: A 17-155

• File #: A 17-155
• Name: Solant Health Inc. Amendment No.5
• Type: BoS Agreement
• Status: Passed
• File created: 5/5/2017
• In control: Board of Supervisors
• On agenda: 6/6/2017
• Final action: 6/6/2017
• Title: Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute Amendment No. 5 to the Agreement (A-12367) with Soliant Health Inc. for temporary staffing services for the Pharmacy Department at NMC, extending the agreement an additional twelve (12) month period (July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018) for a revised full agreement term of April 15, 2012, through June 30, 2018, and adding $175, 000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $775,000.

Date	Action By	Action	Result
6/6/2017	Board of Supervisors	approved	Pass

Title
Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute Amendment No. 5 to the Agreement (A-12367) with Soliant Health Inc. for temporary staffing services for the Pharmacy Department at NMC, extending the agreement an additional twelve (12) month period (July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018) for a revised full agreement term of April 15, 2012, through June 30, 2018, and adding $175, 000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $775,000.

Report
RECOMMENDATION:

It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:

Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute Amendment No. 5 to the Agreement (A-12367) with Soliant Health Inc. for temporary staffing services for the Pharmacy Department at NMC, extending the agreement an additional twelve (12) month period (July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018) for a revised full agreement term of April 15, 202, through June 30, 2018, and adding $175,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $775,000

SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:

NMC Pharmacy (Pharmacy) uses Soliant Health Inc. to provide urgent temporary staffing services for both pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Preferentially Pharmacy uses NMC permanent and per diem employees to cover job absences. Pharmacy does not have excess capacity to cover more than 1.5 FTE absences for each job type. It is reasonable to conclude there will be circumstances requiring more than the current capacity. Any combination of approved vacation, government mandated job protected leave (e.g.FMLA), employee resignation or employee death would exceed available coverage.

Increasing the number of per diem employees is not a solution. Most per diem employees require an extensive training period in addition to the time required to do the hiring. This is too long of a time period to be able to respond to exigent staffing demands; as well, per diem employees desire income stability and ultimately...