Resolution 277-1983
RESOLUTION NO. 277 -1983
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A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING FLORIDA KEYS MEMORIAL
HOSPITAL'S EFFORTS TO RESOLVE THE PROBLEMS
CONCERNING THE "MEDICALLY INDIGENT"; CALLING
UPON ALL INTERESTED PERSONS INCLUDING THE
FLORIDA TASK FORCE ON COST CONTAINMENT AND
CONSUMER CHOICE IN HEALTH CARE AND ALSO THE
FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO SUPPORT SUCH AN EFFORT
TO SECURE ADDITIONAL REVENUE SOURCES FOR THE
"INDIGENT MEDICAL PATIENTS".
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the Monroe County
Commission that the function of community hospitals has been
seriously impaired because of the lack of sufficient funds to aid
and help the "medically indigent patients", and
WHEREAS, it is true that many people are ill and in need of
medical care and do not have sufficient resources to afford such
care, including those that are in the category of catastrophic
health care, and
WHEREAS, sufficient amounts of uncollectible patient charges
could impact negatively the quality of care provided to all
paying and non-paying patients, and
WHEREAS, the ability to remedy the problem of insuring
adequate reimbursement for the medically indigent patient goes
beyond the scope of responsibility and authority of both the
local community hospital, and or hospitals, and the County
Commission, and, therefore, it must be be a problem where the
remedy can only be resolved by the State Legislature, and
WHEREAS, the Florida Legislature has identified the problems
of the "medically indigent patient" as being of sufficient
concern and import as to assign the responsibility for
development of an appropriate legislative proposal to the Task
Force on Cost Containment and Consumer Choice in Health Care,
now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNTY COMMISSION OF MONROE
COUNTY, FLORIDA, that:
1. It endorses the efforts of the Florida Keys Memorial
Hospital in its effort to address and seek remedies to the
problem of the "medically indigent patient" in South Florida, and
that the aforesaid Commission joins with the hospital in that
effort.
2. That the Monroe County Commission calls upon the Dade
County Commission and representatives of South Florida's major
hospitals to come together in a joint effort to improve patient
transfer mechanisms between South Florida hospitals.
3. That the Monroe County Commission request the Florida
Task Force on Care Containment and Consumer Choice in Health Care
and the Florida Legislature to develop legislation which will
provide additional revenue sources for the treatment of indigent
patients which is at once a user base, non-profited tax source
which is able to be distributed equitably to areas with a high
concentration of non-resident visitors.
4. That copies of this Resolution be sent to the Dade
County Commission, the Task Force on Cost Containment and Consumer
Choice in Health Care, and to the respective and various members
of the Florida Legislative delegation from Monroe County, together
with all hospitals in Monroe County.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of
Monroe County at a regularly scheduled meeting held on the I~
day of C~+o~\r , A. D. 1983.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
OF MONROE COUNTY. FLORIDA.. 1.. d.
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