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WHEREAS, Section II of Chapter 29957, supra, authorizes each Board of County Comm issioners 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 pro- gram; and, WHEREAS, Section 6b (1) of Chapter 29957, supra, provides that the financial par- ticipation 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 Indian River County for the current year 1957 made by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of this State is 17,900 inhabitants; Now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, meeting in Vero Beach, Florida, this 6th day of August, 1957, that effective October 1, 1957, Indian River County participate in said statewide program, designed to provide "Hospital Service for the Indigent" as provided by Chapter 29957, supra, and for these purposes there is hereby established as an item in the 1957-58 County Budget the "Indian River County Indigent Hos- pitalization Fund" in the amount of $8,950.00, which amount is not less than fifty cents ($.50) per capita for the current estimated.population of Indian River County; and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the "Indian River County Indigent Hospitalization 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 Indian River 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 Indian River 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; 3. A determination that the patient is acutely ill or injured and that hospitali- zation is essential to the patient's treatment will be made for each recipient of hospitalization under this program by a doctor of medicine, duly licensed to practice medicine in this State; 4. Authorizations for hospitalization under this program shall be made by the Indian River County Health Department; 5. Payments for hospitalization from the "Indian River County Indigent Hospitali- zation Fund" will be limited to the non-profit basic cost to the Hospital for providing essential hospital care to the medically indigent patient; 6. Payments for hospitalization from the "Indian River County Indigent Hospitali- zation Fund1t will be made by this Board to the hospital providing essential hospital' care to medically indigent and acutely ill or injured residents of Indian River County whose hospitalization has been authorized under the provisions of this pro- gram by the Indian River County Health Department; 7. A record will be maintained by this Board of all expenditures made from the "Indian River County Indigent Hospitalization Fund' and these records shall include: a. The Patient's full name, age, sex and race; and if married, the full name of the patient's spouse. b. The parents' full names if the patients is a minor. c. Patient's address d. Name of medical doctor who diagnosed patient and certified hospitalization essential to his treatment. e. Physician's diagnosis. f. The calendar days of hospitalization received. g. A record of payment to the hospital; and, 1 1 E