Explanation
BACKGROUND: In order to effectively manage patients of the Columbus Public Health Sexual Health Clinic (SHC), it is necessary to provide specialized physician services. This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to enter into a contract with OSU Internal Medicine, LLC, in the amount of $65,562.00. The contract compliance number is 311369596. This contractor is a nonprofit organization and is exempt from certification.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that nationally there are approximately 20 million new STD infections each year, half of them among young people ages 15 to 24. Ohio, and particularly Franklin County, rates for syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia are significantly higher than national rates. The SHC provides services to over 9,000 patients per year, many of whom are uninsured. No one is denied services based upon their inability to pay. Patients 13 and older receive testing, counseling, assessment, treatment, and other resources in a nonjudgmental environment.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide continued specialized physician services for patients of the Columbus Public Health Sexual Health Clinic.
FISCAL IMPACT: $65,562.00 is budgeted in the Health Special Revenue Fund for physician services for the Columbus Public Health Sexual Health Clinic contingent on passage of Ord: 2926-2019.
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To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with OSU Internal Medicine, LLC, for physician services for the CPH Sexual Health Clinic for the period of February 1, 2020 through January 31, 2021; to authorize the expenditure of $65,562.00 from the Health Special Revenue Fund to pay the costs thereof; and to declare an emergency. ($65,562.00).
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WHEREAS, Columbus Public Health has a need for specialized physician services to manage patients of the Columbus Public Health Sexual Health Clinic; and
WHEREAS, OSU Internal Medicine, LLC, can provide physicians who ha...
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