DATE: August 9, 2022
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Paul Nerland, County Administrative Officer
SUBJECT: Subrecipient Agreements - State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds
Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute Subrecipient Agreement for American Rescue Plan Act State Local Fiscal Recovery Funds with Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center in the amount of $2,720,670 to fund the purchase of six adult Stryker beds for its intensive care unit and a computed tomography scanner that will treat and diagnose patients with COVID-19 and serve patients in Community Medical Center's network of hospitals.
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will allocate $2,720,670 of Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) to Fresno Community Hospital and Medical Center (Subrecipient) to fund the purchase of medical equipment consisting of six adult Stryker beds for the Fresno Community Regional Medical Center's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and the purchase and installation of a new Computed Tomography (CT) scanner that will replace an aging CT scanner at the Clovis Community Medical Center (Program). The Subrecipient has served and continues to serve as the region's safety-net caring for every patient that walks through its doors and has kept its hospitals and ICU beds available to care for the region's patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. The Program will benefit all Fresno County residents and residents of the Central San Joaquin Valley as the acquisition of new medical equipment provides for ongoing prevention, mitigation, and treatment of COVID-19 in the area. This item is Countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
If your Board were not to approve the recommended action, SLFRF would not become available to the Subrecipient to fund the purchase of new medical equipment which is necessary to support the local healthcare networks' ongoing response, prevention, mi...
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