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Phil Batchelor, County Administrator
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SUBJECT: FUNDING FOR POISON CONTROL CENTERS
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&�SBACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
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RECOMMENDATION:
REFER to the Internal Operations Committee the subject of funding
for Poison Control Centers in order to receive and consider a
report from the Health Services Director on this subject.
BACKGROUND:
On April 19., 1994ithe Board of Supervisors approved the following
recommendations from the Internal Operations Committee:
1 . APPROVE a special project to study Poison Control Alternatives
to be carried out by the Health Services Department with
federal block grant funds received through a State EMS
Authority grant.
2 . AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director to negotiate an
amendment to the existing John Muir Trauma Center Designation
Agreement redirecting John Muir' s community services
obligation fjrom support of the Poison Control Center to
another county program related to trauma care and/or
prevention, preferably in the violence prevention area.
3 . REQUEST the Health Services Director to make a further report
to our Committee on this subject during the month of July,
1994, updating us on the special project study,
disproportionate share funding possibility, and other
legislative efforts to fund Poison Control Centers .
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RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
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ACTION OF BOARD ON C)rt-- )hP_T 4__ 994 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
UNANIMOUS(ABSENT ) AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
ATTESTED OCT 0 4 1994
Contact: PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF
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DEPUTY
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On July 11, 1994, the Internal Operations Committee met with County
Health Officer Dr. William B. Walker and County Emergency Medical
Services Director Art Lathrop in response to these recommendations .
Dr. Walker reviewed a report with our Committee indicating that the
$30,000 contribution from John Muir Medical Center will be
dedicated to violence prevention programs, rather than the Poison
Control Center.
As a result of that meeting, the Board of Supervisors on July 19,
1994, approved the following recommendations from the Internal
Operations Committee:
1 . AGREE to have the Health Services Department continue its
existing arrangement for handling poison calls through the 9-
1-1 system with payments to the San Francisco Poison Control
Center for 9''-1-1 transfers on a per call basis, at $25 per
call transferred for an approximate cost of $80,000 for the
fiscal year, this amount to be paid through County Service
Area EM-1 (Measure H funds) .
2 . AGREE with the decision to have the $30,000 per year
contribution from the John Muir Medical Center dedicated to
violence prevention programs rather than poison control
funding and DIRECT the Health Services Director to prepare and
present to the Board of Supervisors for approval the necessary
amendment to the Trauma Center Designation Agreement.
3 . REQUEST the Health Services Director to report to the full
Board of Supervisors during the summer of 1995 when the study
of alternative approaches to handling poison control calls has
been completed.
4 . REMOVE this item as a referral to the Internal Operations
Committee.
In the background to the July 19, 1994 report, the Internal
Operations Committee indicated that: "We trust that if events
warrant, staff will make an appropriate report to the full Board of
Supervisors, which may then decide to refer the report to one or
another of the Board' s Committees for further review. "
Since the July 19, 1994 report to the Board of Supervisors, the
distribution of $4 million donation by Blue Cross for poison
control center services statewide has enabled the San Francisco
Poison Control Center to substantially reduce assessments to
counties for public access to its poison hotline. The reduced
charges will cover services provided for both the 1994-95 and 1995-
96 fiscal years. Blue Cross has additionally donated $1 million to
fund a major statewide poison center study. Given these
developments, we are recommending that the poison control service
issue be referred; back to the Internal Operations Committee for an
updated report and recommendation from the Health Services Director
at the next Internal Operations Committee meeting on October 10,
1994 .
cc: County Administrator
Health Services Director
William B. Walker, M.D. ,
County Health Officer/Medical Director
Art Lathrop, Director, Emergency Medical Services
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