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s 1 1 1 • • made by the Bureau of Vital Statistics of this State is 19,500 inhabitants; Now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, meeting in Vero Beach, Florida, this 15th day of July, 1958, that effective October 1, 1958, Indian R River County participate in said statewide program, designed to provide 1°Hospital Service for the Indigent" as provided by Chapter 401, supra, and for these purposes there is hereby established as an item in the 1958-1959 County Budget the "Indian River County Indigent Hospitalization Fund1° in the amount of $9,750.00 which amount is not less than fifty cents ($.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"I shall be administered as follows: and, 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 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; 3. A determination that the patient is acutely ill or injured and that hospitalization 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 Hospitalization Fund* will be limited to the non-profit basic cost to the Hospital for providing essential hospital care to the me #ally indigent patient; 6. Payments for hospitalization from the "Indian River County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" will be made by this Board to the hospital'pro- viding 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 program 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 patient 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; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Board will mage all medical and financial records supporting direct expenditures from the "Indian River County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" available for review by the State Board of Health, and this Board will submit quarterly to the State Board of Health a certification identifying hospitalized cases and the payments for the case of each made from the 1°Indian River County Indigent Hospitalization Fund", together with a quarterly statement of expenditures certifying that all such payments weref- made in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 401, supra, and on the basis of such