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Resolution 095-1961RESOLUTION NO. 95 -1961 WHEREAS., Chapter 4,01, .Florida Statutes, creates. a program known as "Hospital Service for the Indigent" for the purpose of providing es.sential hospitalization for acutely ill or injured persons in this State, who ar.e medically indigent, and WHEREAS, the 1961 Legislature appropriated $1, 025, 000. 00 to the State Board of Health for use in the State -County Program of Hospitaliza- tion for the year 1961-1962, and for the purpose of allotting State funds. to each County in proportion to its population to. augment County funds which may be provided for these purposes, and WHEREAS, Section 401. 08. (2), supra, authorizes each. Board of Coun- ty Commi.ssioners of other local official agency of this State to budget for and provide County funds as may be necessary to match, on a formula basis, the County's part of the cost of this program, and WHEREAS, Section 401. 06 (2) (a), supra, provides that the financial participation. required of each County each year shall be equal to at least one-half dollar for each inhabitant of said County according to the estimate of the population of said County for such year by the Bureau of Vital Statis- tics, of this State, and WHEREAS, the estimated population of Monroe County for the current year made by the Bureau of Vital Statistics. of this. -State of 49, 000 inhabitants, now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA, meeting in Key West, Florida, this 13th day of October , 1961, that effective October 1, 1961, Monroe Coun- which amount is not less. than fifty .cente (50�) per capita. of County Funds based on the above estimated population of 49, 000 in Monroe County. BE IT FURTHER 13ESOLVED,that the ''Monroe County Indigent Hos- pitalization Fund" shall be administered as. follows: 1. Expenditures from this fund will be made only for the pro- vision of essential hospital care for indigent and medically indigent residents of Monroe County who are acutely ill or injured. 2. The indigency or medical indigency of all recipients of hos- pitalization under this program will be determined through an investigation made by the County Health .Department or its duly authorized representative, except that when it is deter- mined a patient is a recipient of benefits under the State De- partment of Welfare, no.further check as to his. indigency .shall be necessary. A. County Fund.s (50� per capita) B . State Matching Funds. Total :County Indigent Hospitaliza- tion Fund $ 23, 960. 00 10, 045. 00 $ 34, 005. 00 3. A determination that the patient is, acutely ill or injured and. that hospitalization is essential to the patient's treatment will be made for .each recipient of hospitalization under this program by a doctor of medicine, duly licensed to practice medicine in this State. 4. Authorizations for hospitalization under this. program shall be made by the County Health Department. 5. Payments for hospitalization from the "Monroe County Indigent . Hospitalization Fund" will be limited to the non-profit basic cost to the hospital for providing essential hospital care to the- medi- cally indigent patient. 6. Payments for hospitalization from the "Monroe County Indigent Hospital Fund" will be made by this Board to the hospital pro- viding essential hospital care to, medically indigent and acutely ill or injured residents of Monroe County who ae'hospitalization has. been a.uthoriz.ed under the provisions of this. program by the Monroe County Health Department. 7. A record will be maintained by this Board of all expenditures made from the "Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" and these records shall include: BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this. Board will make all medical and financial records supporting direct expenditures from the "Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" available for review by the State Board of Health, and this Board will submit quarterly to the State Board. of Health a certification identifying hospitalized cases and the payments for the case of each made from the "Monro.e County Indigent Hospitalization Fund,", together with a quarterly statement of expenditures. certifying that all such payments were made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 401, supra, and on the basis of such requisition this Board .wilt request the State Board of Health to authorize direct payments to the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners from Monroe County's share of the state appropriation for this program, less any charges that may have been paid to hospitals outside of Monroe County by the State Board of Health for necessary emergency treatment of indigent Monroe County residents. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all payments received from the State of Florida. through this, program shall augment the "Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund.", and shall be expended in addition to County Funds herein appropriated in accordance with County Annual Budget Statute, Chapter 129, Florida Statutes.. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Resolution be submitted to the Medical Society, the Monroe County Health Department and the State Board of Health. Dated October 13th 1961.