Explanation
BACKGROUND: Columbus Public Health operates the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic under a grant awarded from the Franklin County Board of Commissioners. In order to effectively manage patients with latent and active tuberculosis, it is necessary to provide specialized physician services. A request for proposals for a three-year period was advertised via Vendor Services on February 25, 2015 (SA005778). This ordinance will award the third year of a three-year contract to OSU Internal Medicine, LLC, Division of Infectious Diseases. This contract is in the amount of $31,000.00 for the period March 1, 2017 through February 28, 2018. The contractor's contract compliance number is 311369596 and is effective through February 1, 2018.
In 2014, the reported number of U.S. Tuberculosis (TB) cases was 9,421, with a case rate of 3.0 cases per 100,000 population. Franklin County maintains the highest case count in Ohio at 40 cases in 2015, with a case rate of rate of 3.2 cases per 100,000 population.
The Columbus Public Health Ben Franklin TB Program is the designated TB control program for Franklin County, providing specialized ambulatory medical care and medical case management to active TB cases. Medical treatment for TB can last from six months to two years and requires the oversite of an Infectious Disease Specialist with expertise in TB. The OSU Internal Medicine Division of Infectious Disease provides contract physicians to oversee the care of our TB patients. OSU Dr. Shu-Hua Wang also serves as the TB program medical director. The Ben Franklin TB Program provides services to over 300 patients per year, many of whom are uninsured. No one is denied services based upon their inability to pay.
Emergency action is requested in order to provide continued specialized physician services for patients of the Ben Franklin Tuberculosis Clinic.
FISCAL IMPACT: $31,000.00 is budgeted in the Health Department Grants Fund for physician services for the Ben Fran...
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