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" 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. VJ= 1. ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: June 28, 1994 SUBJECT: Contracts between the orange County Health Department and the UNC School of Medicine for its Departments of Family Medicine, OB/GYN and Pediatrics DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 1. Contract with the Department of Family Medicine. TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 2. Contract with the Department Chapel Hill - 968-4501 of OB/GYN. Mebane - 227-2031 Durham - 688-7331 3. Contract with the Department of Pediatrics PURPOSE: To provide the renewal of Professional Service Contracts between the orange County Health Department (OCHD) and the UNC-CH School of Medicine for its Departments of Family Medicine, OB/GYN and Pediatrics. These contracts provides faculty members who serve as part-time medical director and clinicians. BACKGROUND: The contracts with University have been continuing since 1987, in the case of Family Medicine, and longer in the case of OB/GYN and Pediatrics. The agreements provide a cost effective means of assuring high quality medical supervision of the Family Nurse Practitioners, and other staff serving in the following clinics: Family Planning, Prenatal Care, Child Health, Tuberculosis, Sexually Transmitted Disease, General Communicable Disease Control and Adult Health Preventive Services. The terms have been modified slightly to enhance communication of responsibilities and to clarify the professional liability coverage. The OCED agrees to pay the University Fifty thousand two hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-six cents ($50,246.66) , in return for an average of 20 hours per week of faculty time from the Department of Family Medicine. The OCHD agrees to pay the Department of OB/GYN Eight thousand five hundred dollars ($8,500) , in return for four and one quarter hours per week of physician time. Finally, the OCED agrees to pay the Department of Pediatrics Fourteen thousand one hundred seventy five dollars ($14,175) for FY93-94 and Sixteen thousand nine hundred ten dollars ($16,910) , for FY94-95, for ten percent of a junior faculty member and five percent of a senior faculty member. The contract with the Department of Pediatrics is being submitted late because the development of the contract was overlooked during a change of personnel in the Department of Pediatrics. Funds for this contract are provided in the Manager's Recommended Budget. RECOMMENDATIONS) The Manager recommends that contracts be approved subject to the approval of the County Attorney and Purchasing Director, and that the Chair to authorized to sign the contracts.