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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No VLA <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 28, 1994 <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution on Hospitals Seeking Charges from Inmates and <br /> Their Families <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> DEPARTMENT County Attorney PUBLIC HEARING YES NO X <br /> -------------------------------- ------------------------------- <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) INFORMATION CONTACT <br /> Resolution Geof Gledhill, 732-2196 <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Mebane 227-2031 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a resolution requesting that the North Carolina <br /> Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) support legislative <br /> reconsideration of State statutes that make county governments <br /> responsible for all emergency medical costs for treatment of jail <br /> inmates. <br /> BACKGROUND: Recently, Orange County incurred a hospital bill of almost <br /> $25,000 for medical treatment of an inmate who injured herself during <br /> an escape attempt. The attached resolution seeks legislative changes <br /> that would provide for the State sharing the costs of inmate emergency <br /> medical treatment, would require emergency medical providers to make <br /> reasonable attempts to recoup costs from the person receiving the care, <br /> and would make inmates responsible for reimbursing counties for medical <br /> costs brought about by their own actions. <br /> RECOMMENDATION: The Manager recommends that the Board adopt the <br /> resolution. <br />