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FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director Y0 Contra
By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administrator Costa
DATE:
January 9, 1992 County
Notice of Award #29-394-2 from the State Department of Health
SUBJECT: Services for Immigrant Public Health Supplemental Grant
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Accept $125,000 from the State Department of Health Services Tuberculosis Control
and Refugee Health Programs Unit (IPH Award #190705) for the period October 1,
1991 through September 30, 1992, for the Immigrant Public Health Supplemental
Grant.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Acceptance of this award by the State results in $125,000 of State funding for the
Immigrant Public Health Program. No County funds are required.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
For over eight years the County has participated in the Refugee Preventive Health
Services Program with the State Department of Health Services. Program funds are
used to provide interpreter services by trained bilingual Health Aides to assist
medical staff to provide needed health services to Contra Costa's extensive
refugee population.
The Health Services Department recently received the notice of award from the
State Department of Health Services, granting the Department $125,000 of funding
for the Immigrant Public Health Program for the period October 1, 1991 through
September 30, 1992.
Acceptance of this award will allow the Department to expand services through the
Healthy Start Program to foreign born women, and to expand interpreter services
to newly arriving Afghan, Laotian, Russian and Eastern Block refugees to provide
health screening services to minimize the prevalence of preventable problems of
public health significance.
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ACTION OF BOARD ON 10121 7992 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
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ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Health Services Department (Contracts) ATTESTED JAN 21 1992 _
Auditor-Controller (_Claims)
State Dept. of Health Services Phil Batchelor, Clerk of the Board of
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