Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Access HealthColumbus, doing business as Healthcare Collaborative of Greater Columbus (HCGC), to support regional healthcare improvement projects coordinated by the HCGC. This contract is for the period September 1, 2016, through August 31, 2017, in an amount not to exceed $25,000. Access HealthColumbus is a broad based, non-profit community partnership whose mission is to improve access to health care in Franklin County, particularly for the most vulnerable persons, by convening public-private partners and coordinating innovative solutions. This contract is designed to address three improvement activities: 1) Accountable care coordination, 2) quality transparency, and 3) public health/access to care.
Access HealthColumbus (Contract Compliance No. 510426050) is a nonprofit organization and therefore exempt from Contract Compliance certification.
Emergency action is requested to avoid delays in the implementation of these services.
FISCAL IMPACT: Monies for this contract were made available in the 2016 budget within the Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 2250.
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To authorize the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Access HealthColumbus for the coordination of efforts to improve primary care services in the community, to authorize the expenditure of $25,000.00 from the Health Special Revenue Fund, and to declare an emergency. ($25,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the Board of Health has a need for the coordination of efforts to improve primary care services for Columbus residents in medically underserved areas; and,
WHEREAS, the Access HealthColumbus, doing business as Healthcare Collaborative of Greater Columbus, has the necessary experience and expertise to provide said service; and,
WHEREAS, this contract will provide funding to Access HealthColumbus for an improvement of primary care services in three needed activities; and,
WHEREAS, emergency action is requested to avoid delays in the implementation of needed services; and,
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of Columbus Public Health in that it is immediately necessary to contract with Access HealthColumbus to allow services to proceed without delay and 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 enter into a contract with Access HealthColumbus, doing business as Healthcare Collaborative of Greater Columbus (HCGC), to support regional healthcare improvement projects coordinated by the HCGC for the period September 1, 2016, through August 31, 2017, in an amount not to exceed $25,000.
SECTION 2. That to pay the costs of said contract, the expenditure of $25,000 is hereby authorized from the Health Special Revenue Fund, Fund No. 2250, Department of Health, Division No. 5001, per the account codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 3. This contract is being awarded in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 329 of the Columbus City Code dealing with awarding not-for-profit service contracts exceeding $20,000.
SECTION 4. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. 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.