For many years, the County and VANCHCS have maintained a mutual sharing agreement, which has made available to the County specialized medical services not otherwise available due to lack of resources, equipment, and personnel. These services included specialized laboratory testing, radiology services, nuclear medicine studies, computerized tomography (CT) scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), dermatology, gastroenterology, urology, audiology and speech, and ophthalmology services. The County provides Emergency Room treatment and inpatient care, including certain ancillary services, for VANCHCS referred patients.
On March 27, 2018, the Board of Supervisors approved Sharing Agreement #26-346-21 (as amended by Amendment Agreement #26-346-22) with VANCHCS (under the auspices of the VANCHCS Nuclear Regulatory Commission License) to provide a full range of Nuclear Medicine Services to County's patients at the VANCHCS Outpatient Clinic in Martinez and/or CCRMC’s Nuclear Medicine Department, for the period from April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019. This agreement includes mutual indemnification to hold harmless both parties for any claims arising out of the performance of this agreement.
Approval of Amendment Agreement #26-346-23 will allow Contractor to continue to provide services at CCRMC’s Nuclear Medicine Department through March 31, 2020.
If this amendment is not approved, VANCHCS will not be able to continue to provide nuclear medicine services to CCRMC patients.