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a. Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 4 to the agreement (A-13020) with CA Transplant dba SafetyGraft for tissue bank services, extending the agreement an additional one (1) year period (January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022) for a revised full agreement term of January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2022 and adding $130,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $362,500.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Interim Chief Executive Officer for Natividad Medical Center (NMC) or his designee to execute amendment No. 4 to the agreement (A-13020) with CA Transplant dba SafetyGraft for tissue bank services, extending the agreement an additional one (1) year period (January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2022) for a revised full agreement term of January 1, 2016 through December 31, 2022 and adding $130,000 for a revised total agreement amount not to exceed $362,500.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
California Transplant Services, Inc. (CTS) is licensed by the California Department of Public Health and is an IRS qualified 501(c) 3 non-profit public charity. CTS operates an eye and tissue bank offering physicians worldwide quality tissue for transplant and is accredited by the American Association of Tissue Banks and a member of the Eye Bank Association of America.
CTS provides autologous tissue storage for major trauma centers like Natividad for the storage of skull flaps from trauma (head injury) patients and any patient where the brain swelling prevents replacement of the skull bone. Natividad clinicians perform craniotomies, procedures which require a patient's skull flap to be removed until swelling is reduced and the flap can be re-implanted. These bone flaps will be properly stored at California Transplant Services. Contracting with CTS assures proper storage and availability no matter where patients have their skull fl...
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