ADOPTED - OCTOBER 23, 2001

Agenda Item No. 13

Introduced by the Human Services, Administrative Services/Personnel and Finance Committees of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH A PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN POSITION

RESOLUTION #01-319

WHEREAS, the Health Department operates a network of community health centers, providing managed care services to approximately 7,000 Medicaid eligible persons enrolled in Physicians Health Plan and McLaren Health Plan, and about 10,000 persons enrolled in the Ingham Health Plan, and provides categorical family planning, sexually transmitted disease control and other services to an additional 15,000 persons; and

WHEREAS, the primary care providers for the network of community health centers are employed physicians and contracted physicians and employed nurse practitioners; and

WHEREAS, the MSU Health Team has proposed that the contractual relationship be modified to terminate the half-time family practice physician services it provides; and

WHEREAS, the County has been unable to fill two vacant Nurse Practitioner positions; and

WHEREAS, the Health Officer proposes that the Board of Commissioners establish a fourth primary care physician position within the Health Department, which will be posted as both full-time and part-time.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners establishes a fourth primary care physician position, effective November 1, 2001.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Human Resource Department is authorized to post the new position as both part-time and full-time.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Health Officer is authorized to fill the full-time clinical position if funds are available through salary savings from one of the vacant Nurse Practitioner positions.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the permanent staffing patterns will be established during the preparation of the FY 2003 budget.

HUMAN SERVICES: The Human Services Committee will meet on 10/23/01

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES/PERSONNEL: Yeas: Stid, Celentino, Minter, De Leon, Swope Nays: None Absent: None Approved 10/16/01

FINANCE: Yeas: Czarnecki, Hertel, Schafer, Swope, Lynch

Nays: None Absent: Minter, Krause Approved 10/17/01