HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 12152015 - C.57RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County an Elsevier
Master Agreement #23-584 with Elsevier, Inc., and Schedules 1 and 2 to the Agreement, in an amount not to exceed
$389,110 for license renewal of their Learning Management System from December 30, 2015 through December 31,
2018.
FISCAL IMPACT:
100% funding is included in the Hospital Enterprise Fund I Budget.
BACKGROUND:
Elsevier, Inc. (“Elsevier”) provides a single, streamlined skill assessment and e-learning package for individual staff
orientation and annual competency recertification assessment at Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS). CCHS is
currently using the solutions courses on The Joint Commission, OSHA Compliance, Title 22, and Infection Control
Standards to record, track, and report mandatory clinical education and clinical competency requirements of staff in a
single system. This e-learning system also replaced the paper-based SICR (Safety and Infection Control Review)
annual training requirement for hospital
APPROVE OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 12/15/2015 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II
Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV
Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V
Supervisor
Contact: Patrick Godley,
957-5410
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: December 15, 2015
David Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: June McHuen, Deputy
cc: T Scott, M Wilhelm
C. 57
To:Board of Supervisors
From:William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director
Date:December 15, 2015
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Master Agreement #23-584 with Elsevier, Inc.
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
and health center staff.
The Elsevier Master Agreement (“Master Agreement”) will be effective beginning October 1, 2015, and will remain
in effect until terminated. The Master Agreement includes the terms under which Elsevier will provide services to the
County. The services will be more particularly described in schedules issued under the Master Agreement. Schedule 1
and Schedule 2 to the Master Agreement will require Elsevier to provide the above e-learning system to the County,
and to license Elsevier’s Learning Management System, for the period from December 30, 2015, through December
31, 2018. If additional schedules need to be issued in the future to provide for payment for additional services from
Elsevier, the Board of Supervisors will need to approve the schedules before they will be effective.
Elsevier is currently providing the e-learning system to the County under a separate License Agreement, dated
December 30, 2010, as amended on July 1, 2015 and July 15, 2015. Once this Master Agreement is effective, it will
cause the prior License Agreement, as amended, to terminate.
For these reasons, Health Services Department staff recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve this item, as
recommended.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
CCHS education and training requirements, and operations will be severely impacted if this product is discontinued.
The online e-learning clinical programs will need to be re-written and transferred to a paper system that will need to
be printed and distributed manually to all staff for completion. Additional staff will be necessary to carry out the
duties of printing and distributing training materials, as well as the scoring and record keeping functions associated
with monitoring the education and training completed by the employees. Staff will need to attend in-person classes
instead of e-learning, which will increase travel and training expenses of the organization. Due to the logistical
complexities of a paper based training system, there will be more resources needed to operationalize it from an
administration perspective which may create delays in training delivery and completion.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
Not applicable.