File #: 3323    Version: 0 Name: Medications dispensed at the Detention Center.
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 12/2/2002 In control: (R)Health and Justice Committee
On agenda: 12/2/2002 Final action: 12/9/2002
Title: AN ORDINANCE appropriating $30,007.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2002 Health Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health Services, a division of Truman Medical Center to cover the cost of atypical anti-psychotic medications dispensed at the Jackson County Detention Center at a cost to the County not to exceed $120,000.00.
Sponsors: Terry Young
Indexes: DETENTION CENTER, HEALTH FUND, TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER
IN THE COUNTY LEGISLATURE OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI


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AN ORDINANCE appropriating $30,007.00 from the unappropriated surplus of the 2002 Health Fund and authorizing the County Executive to execute an Agreement with Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health Services, a division of Truman Medical Center to cover the cost of atypical anti-psychotic medications dispensed at the Jackson County Detention Center at a cost to the County not to exceed $120,000.00.

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ORDINANCE # 3323, December 2, 2002

INTRODUCED BY Terry Young, County Legislator

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WHEREAS, health care including treatment for mental illness, is provided to inmates at the Jackson County Detention Center by Truman Medical Center, Inc., under a long contractual arrangement; and,

WHEREAS, the County and Truman Medical Center Behavioral Health Services, a division of Truman Medical desire to enter into an Agreement, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated by reference herein, whereunder Truman Medical Center will supplement services; and,

WHEREAS, the County will pay Truman Medical Center the sum of $119,000 for these supplemental services to cover the cost of atypical anti-psychotic medications dispensed at the Detention Center; and,

WHEREAS, in order to fund a portion of this expenditure, an appropriation is necessary; and,
WHEREAS, the County Executive recommends said appropriation as an amendment to her 2002 proposed County budget; now therefore,

BE IT ORDAINED by the County Legislature of Jackson County, Missouri, that the following appropriation from the unappropriated surplus of the 2002 Health Fund be and hereby is made:

DEPARTMENT/DIVISION CHARACTER/DESCRIPTION FROM TO
002 2810 Unappropriated Surplus $30,007

002 2602 7170 Medical & Dental Supplies $30,007


and,

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that the Agreement is hereby approved and that the County Executive is authorized to execute the Agreement on behalf of the County; and,
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