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Resolution 061-1962'EXHIBIT B RE S OL.0 T ION# 61-1962 Regarding HOSPITAL SERVICE FOR THE INDIGENT �1HEREAS, Chapter 401, Florida Statutes, creates a program known as "Hospital Service for the Indigent« for the purpose of providing essential hospitalization for acutely ill or injured persons in this State who are medically indigent; and, W11D,,REAS, the 1961 Legislature appropriated ,y1,025,000.00 to the State Board of Health for the biennium., July 1, 1961 through June 30, 1963, for the administration of this program 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`County Commissioners or 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;arid, ZTIEREAS, 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 ..sdch.-yearr' and, IVMEIREAS, the estimated population of Monroe, County for the current year is47,921 inhabitants; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County meeting in 4y •West , Florida, this 25tl3.ay ofsept. , 1962, that effective October 1, 1962, Monroe County participate in said state-wide program, designed to provide f4Hospital Service for the Indigentit as provided by Chapter 401, supra, and for these purposes there is hereby established as an item in the County Budget the FP Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fundrq in the amount of ' 0 32$ 977.50 , consisting of County Funds in the amount is not less than fifty cents,($ .50) per capita of County Funds based on the above estimated population of Monroe County, and State Matching Funds in the amount of yr 9,327.50 ; and, Page 2 1. E..penditures from this fund Z,,rill be made only for the provision of essential hospital care for indigent and medically indigent residents of Monroe County who are acutely ill or injured. 2. The indi.gency or medical indigercy of all recipients of hospi— talization under this program will be determined through an investigation made by the Monroe CotLnty Health Department, o_' its duly authr-wined represenu;ative, e-Y,z , pt tllat -Wneri it s determined a patient is a recipient of benefits under the State Department of Welfare, no further check as to his indigency - shall be necessary. 3. A determination that the patient is acutely ill or injured and the 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 in this State. Authorization: f or hospitalization: under * th; :s( program shall be made by the Monroe County Health Department. 5. Payments for hospitalization from the 11 Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund-? will be limited to the non—profit basic cost to the hospital for providing essential hospital care to the medically Indigent patient.. 6. Payments for hospitalization from the f'Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Funds' will be made by this Board of the hospital - providing essential hospital care to medical indigent and acutely ill or injured residents of. Monroe County whose hospitalization has been authorized 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 sr Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" and these records shall include: a. The patient's name, age, sex and race; and, if married, the full name of the patient's spouse. b. The parent's full names if the patient,is a minor. c. Patient's address. d. Name of medical doctor who diagnosed patient and certified hospitalization essential to his treatment. e. Physician's diagnosis. f. The calendar days of hospitalization received. g. A record of payment to this hospital. and, BE.IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Board will make all medical and financial records supporting direct expenditures from the i9Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Funds, 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 `Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Funds', together Page 3 basis of such requisition this Board will 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 hospital.utside of Monroe County by the State Board of Health for necessary emergency treatment of indigent County residents; and, BE IT FURTI-MR RESOLVED, that all payments received from the State of Florida through this program shall augment the SY Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund44, and shall be expended in addition to County Funds herein appropriated in accordance with County Annual Budget Statute, Chapter 129, Florida Statutes; and, BE IT'FURTHER RESOLVED, that a certified copy of this Resolution be submitted'to the Monroe County Health Department and the State Board of Health.