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Recommendation to authorize City Manager to increase Blanket Purchase Order Agreement No. BPPD13000023 with Decton, Inc., dba Clinical Staffing Services of Santa Ana, CA; BPPD13000004 with Dr. Maryam Abdelnaby, of Torrance, CA; BPPD13000010 with Dr. Melvin Webb, of Seal Beach, CA; and BPPD13000006 with
Dr. Sophia Momand, of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, for providing jail inmate physician and relief nursing services, by $125,000, for a total aggregate annual amount not to exceed $475,000 for the period ending September 30, 2015. (Citywide)
DISCUSSION
City Council approval is requested to increase existing contracts with Decton, Inc., dba Clinical Staffing Services; Dr. Maryam Abdelnaby, Dr. Melvin Webb, and Dr. Sophia Momand, for providing jail inmate physician and relief nursing services.
During fiscal years 2007 through 2012, the City’s cost for providing basic and emergency health care for in-custody inmates through off-site medical services provided by local community hospitals (i.e., Community Hospital of Long Beach) and other medical centers (i.e., St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center) averaged approximately $603,000 annually. These costs included urgent care, prescription and non-prescription medications, ambulatory care service, emergency treatment, radiology, laboratory and diagnostic tests, imaging/x-rays, as well as security and administration costs associated with transporting inmates/arrestees to and from off-site medical facilities.
To align with the City’s goal of achieving cost savings through efficiencies, on September 18, 2012, the City Council awarded contracts to ten service providers for the Long Beach Police Department’s In-Custody Jail Inmate Medical Program. The objective of this program is to operate an on-site jail health care program in a cost-effective manner and in accordance with California Code of Regulations, Title 15, Article 1, Medical/Mental Health Care Services.
Under the program, the City cont...
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