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BACKGROUND: The Columbus Health Department has been awarded a grant from the Ohio Campus Compact Pay It Forward Student Philanthropy Project of Nursing for the Pay It Forward Columbus Public Health Women's Health Center Postpartum Protocol Pilot Project. This ordinance is needed to accept and appropriate $2,250.00 in grant money to fund this project.
The goal of this grant is to increase the percentage of women from 46% to 67% who schedule and complete their postpartum (PP) visit. This will be achieved by incorporating PP education during each trimester of prenatal care at routine visits, shortening the scheduling of PP visits from 6 weeks to 2-4 weeks, and providing $20 gift cards as incentives for women to complete the PP visits. This grant is for the period March 2, 2011 through December 31, 2011.
Emergency action is requested to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management.
FISCAL IMPACT: This program is funded by Ohio Campus Compact, and will not generate revenue or require a City match.
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to accept a grant from Ohio Campus Compact in the amount of $2,250.00 for the Pay It Forward Columbus Public Health Women's Health Center Postpartum Protocol Pilot Project; to authorize the appropriation of $2,250.00 from the unappropriated balance of the Health Department Grants Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($2,250.00)
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WHEREAS, $2,250.00 in grant funds have been made available through the Ohio Campus Compact Pay It Forward Student Philanthropy Project of Nursing for the Pay It Forward Columbus Public Health Women's Health Center Postpartum Protocol Pilot Project; and,
WHEREAS, this ordinance is submitted as an emergency so as to allow the financial transaction to be posted in the City's accounting system as soon as possible. Up to date financial posting promotes accurate accounting and financial management; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Columbus Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to accept this grant from Ohio Campus Compact and to appropriate these funds to the Health Department for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; Now, therefore,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLUMBUS:
SECTION 1. That the Board of Health is hereby authorized and directed to accept a grant award of $2,250.00 from Ohio Campus Compact for the Pay It Forward Columbus Public Health Women's Health Center Postpartum Protocol Pilot Project for the period March 2, 2011 through December 31, 2011.
SECTION 2. That from the monies in the Fund known as the Health Department Grants Fund, Fund No. 251, and from all monies estimated to come into said fund from any and all sources during the 12 months ending December 31, 2011, the sum of $2,250.00 is hereby appropriated to the Health Department, Department No. 50-01, as follows:
OCA: 501126; Grant No.: 501126; OL1:02; Amount: $2,250.00
SECTION 3. That the monies appropriated in the foregoing Section 2 shall be paid upon the order of the Health Commissioner, and that no order shall be drawn or money paid except by voucher, the form of which shall be approved by the City Auditor.
SECTION 4. That for reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the Mayor, or ten days after passage if the Mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.