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380 RESOLUTION Regarding HOSPITAL SERVICE FOR THE INDIGENT EXHIBIT B WHEREAS, Chapter 401, Florida Statutes, creates a program known as "Hospital Service for the Indigent" for the purpose of providing essential hospitalization for acutely ill or injured persons in this State who are medically indigent; and, WHEREAS, the Legislature appropriates funds for the administration of this program and for the purpose of allotting State funds to each County in proportion to its population to augment County funds which may be provided for these purposes; and, WHEREAS, Section 401.08 (2), supra, authorizes each Board of County Commiss- ioners or other local official agency of this State to budget for and provide County funds as may be necessary to match, on a formula basis, the County's part of the cost of this program; and, WHEREAS, Section 401.06 (2) (a), supra, provides that the financial partici- pation required of each County each year shall be equal to at least one-half dollar for each inhabitant of said County according to the estimate of the population of said County for such year by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of this State; and, WHEREAS, the estimated population of Ind. Riv. County for the current year made by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of this State is 28,400 inhabitants; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Ind. Riv.County meeting inVero Beach ; Florida, this 7th day of August , 19 63 , that effective October 1, 1963, County participate in said State-wide program, designed to provide "Hospital Service for the Indigent" as provided by Chapter 401, supra, and for these purposes there is herby established as an item in the County Budget the." Indian River County Indigent. Hospitalisation Fund' in the amount of $ 1III,ZDO.O(4 which amount is not'less than fifty cents ($.50) per capita of County.Funds based on the above es- timated population of Ind. River•County; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the" Fund" shall be administered as follows: 1. Expenditures from this fund will be made only for the provision of essential hospital care for indigent and medically indigent residents of County who are acutely ill or injured: 2. The indigency or medical indigency of all recipients of hospitalization under this program will be determined through an investigation made by the County Health Department or its duly authorized representative, except that when it is determined a patient is a recipient of benefits under the State Department of Welfare, no further check as to his indigency shall be necessary; *A., Cointy Pends (50C per capita). $ 14,200.00 State Matching Funds 4.657.09 Total County Indigent Hospitalization Fund Ind. RhverCounty Indigent Hospitalization • $ 18,857.09 304 13