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RES 0 L UTI 0 N- -N9..-94-1969
Regarding
HOSPITAL 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
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 their local official agency of this State to budget for and provide County funds
as may be necessary to match, on a formula basi~ 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-halfQoJla~ fo~ ~ch
inhabitant of said County according to the estimate of the populati~n of said County
for such year by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of this State; and,
WHEREAS, the estimated population of
1-1 onroe
County for the current year
made by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of this State is 62,500
inhabitants; now,
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe
County meeting
in
Key Viest , Fl or i da, th i s l8th day of
3eptembe~,19 69 that effective Oct.l,~969,~nroe
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
hereby established as an item in the County Budget the II honroe
County Indigent
Hospitalization Fund" in the amount of $j1.2J6,g@, which amount is not less than fifty
cents ($.50) per capita of County Funds based on the above estimated population of
honroe County; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the II 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)
B. State Matching Funds
Total County Indigent Hospitalization Fund
$
$
3l,25O.00
~86.0or
37,236.00
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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 hospital ization under this program by a physician,
duly 1 icensed to practice medicine in this State;
4. Authorizations for hospital ization under this program shall be made
by the Honroe County Health Department;
5, Payments for hospitalization from the II H 0nroe 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 hospital ization 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 honroe County whose hospitalization has been authorized
under the provisions of this program by the Monroe County Health
DepartmenL
7, A record will be maintained by this Board of all expenditures made from
the II Honroe County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" and these records
sha 11 i nc 1 ude:
a. The patientts name, age, sex and race; and, if married, the full
name of the patient's spouse.
b. The parentst full names if the patient is a minor.
c. Patientts address,
d. Name of physician 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" Monroe
County Indigent Hospital-
ization Fund" available for review by the State Board of Health, and this Board will
submit ~ least monthly to the State Board of Health a certification identifying
hospitalized cases and the payments for the case of each made from the II
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
Nonroe
State Board of Health to authorize direct payments to the
of County Commissioners ~ other local official agency from Monroe
County Board
Countyts 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
Honroe
County residents; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all payments received from the State of Florida
through this program shall augment the II Monroe
County Indigent Hospitalization
Fund," and shall be expended In addition to County Funds herein appropriated in accord-
ance 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 Molirde3 County
Medical Society, the Monroe
County Health Department and the
State Board of Health