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� 1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. VI'Tr-F <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date% September 5, 1995 <br /> SUBJECT: Contracts between the Orange County Health Department (OCHD) and <br /> the UNC School of Medicine for its Departments of Family <br /> Medicine and Community Pediatrics <br /> DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 <br /> 1. Contract with the Department <br /> of Family Medicine. TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> 2. Contract with the Department Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> of Community Pediatrics Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: <br /> To provide the renewal of Professional Service Contracts between the OCHD <br /> and the UNC-CH School of Medicine for its Departments of Family Medicine <br /> and Community Pediatrics. These contracts provides faculty members who <br /> serve as part-time medical director and clinicians. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> The contracts with the University have been continuing since 1987, in the <br /> case of Family Medicine, and since 1984 in the case of Community <br /> Pediatrics. The agreements provide a cost effective means of assuring <br /> high quality medical supervision of the Family Nurse Practitioners, and <br /> other staff serving in the following clinics: Family Planning, Prenatal <br /> Care, Child Health, Adolescent Health, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted <br /> Disease, General, Communicable Disease Control, and Adult Health <br /> Promotion Services. <br /> The contract with Community Pediatrics has been increased with the <br /> transfer of responsibility for the Child Health clinics from Family <br /> Medicine to Pediatrics. The contract with Family Medicine has been <br /> reduced because of that transfer and a reduction in administrative time <br /> no longer required by the department. The OCHD agrees to pay the <br /> University Twenty eight thousand Eighty dollars ($28,080) for the <br /> Department of Family Medicine and Nineteen thousand Sixty-four dollars <br /> ($19,064) for the Department of Community Pediatrics. <br /> These contacts are being submitted after the beginning of the fiscal year <br /> because of the last minute changes in responsibility for the Child Health <br /> Clinic. <br /> Funds for these contracts are provided in the approved budget. <br /> RECOMMENDATIONS) The Manager recommends that contracts be approved <br /> and that the Chair to authorized to sign the <br /> contracts. <br /> 8WC95/895UNCFN.doc <br />