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Authorize the Deputy Purchasing Agent for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment no. 2 to the agreement with Universal Staffing, Inc. for professional staffing services, extending the agreement an additional three (3) year period (January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of May 1, 2017 through December 31, 2021, and adding $375,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $450,000.
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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. 2 to the agreement with Universal Staffing, Inc. for professional staffing services, extending the agreement an additional three (3) year period (January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021) for a revised full agreement term of May 1, 2017 through December 31, 2021, and adding $375,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $450,000.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Universal Staffing, Inc. provides Natividad Medical Center with experienced professionals to provide classification and reclassification studies, and compensation analysis for both clinical and non-clinical positions upon request by NMC's Human Resources Division.
NMC would like to amend the existing agreement to include trauma registry services in which Universal Staffing will also provide experienced, certified registrars to perform retrospective abstracting, data collection, and entry of trauma patients into NMC's Trauma One Database, via a secured and remote access, as needed, and within the required time period set by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
Improvement in trauma care depends on the establishment of functioning trauma care systems, of which a trauma registry is a crucial component. According to the ACS, trauma registries should be concurrent at a minimum, where 80% of cases must be entered within 60 days of discharge as per Centers for Medicar...
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