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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 24, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. S-m <br />SUBJECT: Continuation Grant Acceptance for Primary Care Services at Health <br />Department <br />DEPARTMENT: Health PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Continuation Grant Application Rosemary Summers, 245-2411 <br />PURPOSE: <br />To accept the continuation grant funds for primary care services at the Health Department for <br />the period January through May 30, 2006. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />In 2005, the Health Department received a grant that helped defray some of the costs of <br />primary care services that began in 2005. In the first full year of providing primary care, the <br />Department had approximately 441 number of patient visits from 233 patients. The first grant <br />was used to purchase some pharmaceuticals, some supplies and equipment and for temporary <br />staff to supplement the current staff. Also in 2005, both clinical locations altered service hours <br />so that members of the public could receive services in the early evening one night a week, <br />providing services on Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30 am until 6:30 pm. The Health <br />Department applied for a 2006 Community Health Center Continuation Grant to expand primary <br />care services at the Whitted Clinic. Through this grant, an additional part-time clinician team <br />consisting of a coarse practitioner, a registered nurse, and a nursing assistant will be able to see <br />additional patients at selected times and locations. <br />The Department requested $52,831 and was awarded $43,346. ($9,485 in 'unreimbursed <br />sliding fee costs' was not funded). Five other Health Departments also received funding. These <br />funds were authorized by the legislature in the last session but are not recurring funds and must <br />be expended by May 31, 2006. Of the funded amount, $41,204 is for temporary personnel <br />costs and $2,142 is for pharmaceuticals. Because the funds are not recurring, the grant <br />focuses only on temporary personnel and will be utilized to expand the available hours of <br />primary care by adding an additional clinician team. Funds will be used to hire on a temporary, <br />part-time basis a family nurse practitioner, a registered nurse, a nursing assistant and <br />laboratory technicians. The Department has already secured a part time nurse practitioner and