Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to enter into a contract with the Central Ohio Poison Center (COPC) at Children's Hospital for services to Columbus residents in an amount not to exceed $125,000. For more than forty years this not-for-profit agency has been providing the citizens of Columbus with the highest quality poison treatment and prevention services and programs possible. Telephone calls are answered by a medical toxicology professional 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This type of service can provide lifesaving instructions to prevent death or severe injury, and many times their first aid recommendations are all that is needed, thereby eliminating a trip to a hospital's emergency room. Various programs at the Health Department utilize their services and value the support they receive from COPC. Those operations include the Chemical Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council (CEPAC), HAZMAT, the Metropolitan Medical Response System (MMRS), and the Health Department's Chemical and Physical Hazards Team.
Emergency action is requested in order to guarantee the continuation of these important and essential health care services to Columbus residents.
FISCAL IMPACT: Monies for this contract were budgeted in the Health Special Revenue Fund for fiscal year 2005.
Title
To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with the Central Ohio Poison Center at Children's Hospital for the provision of poison treatment and prevention services, to authorize the expenditure of $125,000 from the Health Special Revenue Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($125,000)
Body
WHEREAS, the Board of Health wishes to enter into a contract with the Central Ohio Poison Center at Children's Hospital beginning February 1, 2005, and ending January 31, 2006; and,
WHEREAS, this contract is necessary and urgent in order to ensure that Columbus residents continue to receive these essential poison treatment and preve...
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