Agenda

Return

C. 36

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	March 29, 2022

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Contract #23-679-1 with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc.

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 03/29/2022

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

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

Contact:	Marshall Bennet, 925-608-5454
cc:	L Walker 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 29, 2022
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #23-679-1 with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $750,000, to provide a qualified person to act as the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Medical Director as requested by the EMS Medical Director, for the period from April 1, 2022 through March 31, 2025.

FISCAL IMPACT:

This contract will result in contractual service expenditures of up to $750,000 over a three-year period and will be funded by 100% Measure H Funding. (No rate increase)

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this contract is not approved, EMS will not receive the necessary oversight of the EMS system.

BACKGROUND:

The contractor will provide oversight of the County’s EMS including modification and development of treatment algorithms for first responder and transport agencies, emergency medical dispatch (EMD), EMS systems of care (stroke, stemi, trauma, cardiac arrest, children), and quality data systems and metrics. The contractor will also act as the liaison with trauma base station medical director and trauma program leads at the John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek and provide quality review of case reports made to the EMS agency. The County has been contracting with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. since April 1, 2020.

On April 14, 2020 the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #23-679 with The Permanente Medical Group, Inc. in an amount not to exceed $750,000 to provide a qualified person with an unrestricted California Physician license to act as the EMS Medical Director to provide oversight of the EMS systems of care, EMS Quality Data Systems and Metrics and Emergency Medical Dispatch Unit as requested by the EMS Medical Director for the period April 1, 2020 through March 31, 2022.

Approval of Contract #23-679-1 will allow contractor to continue to provide an EMS Medical Director through March 31, 2025.