Explanation
Ordinance number 1300-2017, approved by City Council on June 5, 2017, authorized the Board of Health to enter into a contract with Equitas Health, in the amount of $50,000.00 for a period through March 31, 2018, to continue a partnership with Columbus Public Health for a harm reduction program, called Safe Point. Part of this effort includes making Naloxone readily available to heroin and opiate users in order to save lives.
This ordinance is needed to modify by increasing and extending contract PO090908 in the amount of $12,500.00 for a total contract amount not to exceed $62,500.00, for a time period ending June 30, 2018 with Equitas Health. This modification is needed to continue a harm reduction program to provide Naloxone to opiate users.
Harm reduction services provided by Equitas Health allow clients who are at high-risk of accidental overdose death to access the lifesaving drug, Naloxone. During the first 9 months of 2017, 1,152 lives were known to have been saved from Naloxone that was acquired at the Safe Point program. During Q1, Q2, and Q3 of 2017, 1,051 individual clients were given access to an alcohol and drug consultation, 697 were linked to medical care, and 351 were linked to behavioral or mental healthcare services.
Emergency action is requested for this contract modification in order to ensure Columbus has a harm reduction program to continue to save lives.
FISCAL IMPACT: The funds needed to modify this contract with Equitas Health are budgeted within the Health Department Special Revenue Fund;
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To authorize and direct the Board of Health to modify, by increasing and extending, an existing contract with Equitas Health to continue to provide a harm reduction program, called Safe Point, through June 30, 2018; and to declare an emergency. ($12,500.00)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to modify, by increasing and extending, contract PO090908 with Equitas Health through June 30, 2018; and
WHEREAS, this ordin...
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