Explanation
BACKGROUND: This ordinance authorizes the Office of the Mayor to modify a contract with Columbus Neighborhood Health Center dba PrimaryOne Health, by extending the contract term end dates. This modification is needed for continued neighborhood prenatal care through CenteringPregnancy Programs on the Near Eastside. This modification request is to extend the contract from September 30, 2019 to January 6, 2020.
The Near Eastside CenteringPregnancy program is run by the Columbus Neighborhood Health Center dba PrimaryOne Health. The original contract, PO152119 was established by Ordinance 0860-2018 on April 9, 2018. The contract dates were from April 1, 2018 to September 30, 2019.
Emergency action is requested for this contract modification in order to ensure that the work on reducing infant mortality is not interrupted.
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center dba PrimaryOne Health: 31-153908
FISCAL IMPACT: No additional funds are being requested.
Title
To authorize the Office of the Mayor to modify an existing contract with Columbus Neighborhood Health Center dba PrimaryOne Health, by extending the contract term end dates to provide continued neighborhood prenatal care for the reduction of infant mortality in the Near East neighborhood; and to declare an emergency. ($0.00)
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WHEREAS, it is necessary to extend the contract with PrimaryOne Health to continue their neighborhood prenatal care for the reduction of preterm births and infant mortality; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary to extend the contract term dates so that the neighborhood intervention can impact the social determinants of health by PrimaryOne Health; and
WHEREAS, this ordinance is being submitted as an emergency measure so that timely services can proceed without interruption; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Office of the Mayor in that it is immediat...
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