Explanation
BACKGROUND: The Board of Health has been awarded $977,878.00 in grant funds from the Ohio Department of Health to fund the Child and Family Health Services (CFHS) Perinatal Program for the period July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004. The Health Department has a need to make funds available for the CFHS program to provide for high risk perinatal services from The Ohio State University.The Ohio State University has a continuous relationship of providing high risk perinatal care services under the Child and Family Health Services Perinatal Program. Many women seen in the perinatal program are high-risk and uninsured patients, and it is necessary that they be provided access to this specialized service.A request is made to waive the provisions of competitive bidding. Emergency action is requested in order to avoid any delays in providing program services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Funding for this expenditure is provided with Grant Funds from the Ohio Department of Health in the amount of $135,241.
Title
To authorize and direct the Board of Health to enter into a contract with The Ohio State University for the provision of high risk perinatal care services; to authorize the expenditure of $135,241 from the Health Department Grants Fund; to waive the provisions for competitive bidding. ; and to declare an emergency.
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WHEREAS, the Columbus Health Department has a need for The Ohio State University to provide high risk perinatal care services in Franklin County for the period of July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004, and,
WHEREAS, The Ohio State University has the expertise and has had a long history of providing high risk perinatal care services to patients in the Child and Family Health Services Perinatal Program now therefore: and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Health Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into this contract for the immediate preservation of the public health, pea...
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