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C. 75

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	March 27, 2018

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Sharing Agreement #26-346-21 with United States Department of Veterans Affairs

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 03/27/2018

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

ABSENT:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor

Contact:	Jaspreet Benepal, 925-370-5741
cc:	K Cyr M Wilhelm

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: March 27, 2018
David Twa,

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute Sharing Agreement #26-346-21 (VA261-17-S-0174) with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System (VANCHCS) in an amount not to exceed $474,000, to provide nuclear medicine services at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (CCRMC) and Health Centers, for the period from April 1, 2018 through March 31, 2019.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This contract is funded 100% by Hospital Enterprise Fund I. (Rate increase)

BACKGROUND:

On March 19, 2013, the Board of Supervisors approved Sharing Agreement #26-346-14 (as amended by Amendment Agreements #26-346-15 through #26-346-20) 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 the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center's Nuclear Medicine Department, through March 31, 2018.

BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)

Approval of Sharing Agreement #26-346-21 will allow the contractor to continue providing nuclear medicine services to Contra Costa Regional Medical Center’s Nuclear Medicine Department through March 31, 2019.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this contract is not approved, patients requiring specialized nuclear medicine services at CCRMC and Health Centers will not have access to the contractor’s services.