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a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute the Professional Services Agreement with Chiquita Palha de Sousa M.D. to provide pediatric hospitalist services at NMC for an amount not to exceed $250,000, for the period July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2020; and
b. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for NMC or his designee to sign up to three (3) future amendments to this Agreement which do not significantly alter the scope of work and do not cause an increase of more than ten percent (10%) ($25,000) of the original cost of the agreement.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
a. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute the Professional Services Agreement with Chiquita Palha de Sousa M.D. to provide pediatric hospitalist services at NMC for an amount not to exceed $250,000, for the period July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2020; and
b. Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for NMC or his designee to sign up to three (3) future amendments to this Agreement which do not significantly alter the scope of work and do not cause an increase of more than ten percent (10%) ($25,000) of the original cost of the agreement.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
NMC operates a twelve bed pediatric unit and an eighteen bed maternal infant unit providing medical care for newborns, children and adolescents, as well as hospital based services for the pediatric population (age 0-21) through NMC's emergency medicine, trauma programs, general surgery and outpatient specialty clinics. NMC currently provides the majority of emergency and inpatient care in Monterey County with over 100,000 visits over the last five years.
In July 2017, the pediatric hospitalist program increased its services to twenty-four hour in-house patient care. It takes at least 4.2 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) physicians to cover the service and ensure a pediatrician is on-site twenty-fo...
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