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HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 052-1964r � , EXH161T B RES0LUT 10N#52'1964 Regarding HOSP1TAL SERVICE FOR THE INDIGENT WHEREAS, 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, WHEREAS, the Legislature appropriates funds for the administration of this progrardi 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 Commiss-•,--.- ioners or; they local official agency of this State to budget for and provide County 1 funds as bay 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 partici- pation 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 Statistics 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 is 55,800 inhabitants; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County meeting in Key West , Florida, this 13th day of October 19 64 that effective Oct. 1, 1964 County participate in said State-wide program, designed to provide "Hospital Service for the Indigent" as provided by Chapter 401, supra, and for these purposes there is herby established as an item in the County Budget the " Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund' in the amount of $36,897.00, which amount is not less than fifty cents ($.50) per capita of County Funds based on the above es- timated population of Monroe County; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the"Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" shall be administered as follows: 1. Expenditures from this fund will be made only for the provision of essential hospital care for indigent and medically indigent residents of County who are acutely ill or injured: 2. The indigency or medical indigency of all recipients of hospitalization. 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 determined a patient is a recipient of benefits under the State Department of Welfare, no further check as to his indigency shall be necessary; *A. County Funds (50� per capita) $27,900.00 B. State Matching Funds 8,997,00 Total County Indigent Hospitalization Fund $36,897,00 - ® ® EX IBIT B Page 2 and, 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 physician, duly licensed to practice medicine in this State; 4. Authorizations for hospitalization under this program shall be made by the Monroe 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 medically indigent patient; 6. Payments for hospitalization from the Monroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund' will be made by this Board to the hospital providing essential hospital care to medically 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. %. A record will be maintained by this Board of all expenditures made from the " 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 parents' full names if the patient is a minor. C. Patient's address. d. Name of physician who diagnosed patient and certified hospitaliza- tion essential to his treatment. e. Physician's diagnosis. f. The calendar days of hospitalization received. g. A record of payment to this hospital; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Board will make all medical and financial records supporting direct expenditures from the ''Monroe County Indigent Hospitali- zation Fund" available for review by the State Board of Health, and this Board will submit at least monthly 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 Fund," together with a 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 will request the State Board of Health to authorize direct payments to the Monroe County Board of County Commissioners or. other local official agency 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; and, 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; and, 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. FSBH/Div. Hosp. & Nurs. Homes.