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on motion by Commissioner Waddell, seconded by Commissiciiier Mt_ <br />Cullers, the following Resolution was unanimously adoptedt <br />it E SO _!,Lj T I 0!!!_ tro:* % 36-25 <br />Regarding <br />HOSPITAL SERVICE FOR THE INDIGENT <br />WHEREAS, Chapter 401, Florida Statutes, creates a program known as -Hospital <br />Service for the Indigent" for the purpose of providing essential hospitalization for <br />acutely III or lnjtjred person% In this State wsliia are medically Indigent: and, <br />AMAS, the Legislature Ujrqpr}.ILV kunds for the admini0entlOn of this <br />program and for the purpose of allotting State funds to each County In prolvirtion to <br />Its population to anignent County fund* whlch may be provided for thaw purMsts. end, <br />WHEREAS, Suction 401.08 (2}, supra, auuiori zas each "ard of County Cts ml Is- <br />10amrs or their 104illt Official agency of this State to budget (of And Provide CO00tY <br />Node as *Ay be necessary to match, on a forthuto 6*414, the County's Part Of the cost <br />of this prograen: And, <br />WtACA$, Section 401,06 (2) (4), jupro, provides that the (Inanti4i) jiArtifl- <br />potion roilvIred of *eth County each year jh*Jl be equal to at least one-half dollar <br />for *"h inhabitant of sold County etcorOinq to the *it i+ Atat of the population Of <br />said County for tvech year by the buremi Of Vital of thli State; and, <br />WHEREAS, the ftl0rqt*d population of ikvoc Cnunty for the current year <br />mada by the #ur#,*o Of Vital Statistics of this state is Inhabitwits. N)W, <br />therefore, <br />iriatlrn <br />DE IT KEWLVE0 by the 00*rd of CO004Y Crer»is9itianars QfAtv" County emdtlng <br />414 ro <br />in ija4cm Florida, this i,i tr. day of jutlt4 that siffactivo <br />Octutior I„ 19f,,ri County port icipate In told 1,t4ta-wida program, designed to, ProvW4 <br />"Hospital Service for the InditieAt" As Provided by 040of 441. supra, and for tress <br />purpose$ that* is hereby established At en item In the County Oudg#t this "Indian River <br />County Indi"Ot hospital lret ion Fund" In the amount of , 10hich Amount is <br />not loss than fifty Conti (00.50) per capita of County l'undt baled on the *bov* *I- <br />t1mated population of jt,,,r County: and, <br />I otli 'r, <br />SE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the " 'Itvski. County Indigent ifW-Ptt411140013 <br />Fund" shalt be administered as follows: <br />1. Expenditures from this fund will he modis Only for the provision of <br />essential hospital care for Indigent and medically Indigent f4lifletits <br />Of County who aft acutely lit of injured., <br />2. The Indlqency Or midlrad Indiguncy of all recipients of ho&Vitalioaitlon <br />under this program will be determined throup) an investigation made by <br />the County Health Department of Its duly dutfiotly6d r"Pfesgntit Ives <br />except that tilien It Is determined a patient 1% a recipient of benefits <br />under the State Department of Welfare, no further check as to tilt <br />Indig,ency shall be necessary; <br />*A. County Funds (50c per capita) <br />D. State Matching Funds 5A39 -3.U0 <br />Total County Indigent Hospitalizatlon'Fund 21,293.00 <br />I IWOK 9 fAct WMW6 <br />