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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the "Indian River County Indigent <br />Hospitalization Fund" shall be administered as follows: <br />1. Expenditures from this fund will be made only for the provision <br />of essential hospital care for indigent and medically indigent <br />residents of Indian River County who are acutely ill or injured; <br />2. The indigency or medical indigency of all recipients of hospital- <br />ization under this program will be determined through an investi- <br />gation made by the County Health Department or its duly authorized <br />representative, except that when it is determined a patient is a <br />recipient of benefits under the State Department of Welfare, no <br />further check as to his indigency shall be necessary; <br />3. A determination that the patient is acutely ill or injured and <br />that hospitalization is essential to the patient's treatment will <br />be made for each recipient of hospitalization under this program <br />by a doctor of medicine, duly licensed to practice medicine in this <br />State; <br />4. Authorizations for hospitalization under this program shall be made <br />by the Indian River County Health Department; <br />5. Payments for hospitalization from the `Indian I:iver County Indigent <br />Hospitalization Fund" will be limited to the non-profit basic cost <br />to the hospital for providing essential hospital care to the medi- <br />cally indigent patient; <br />6. Payments for hospitalization from the "Indian River County Indigent <br />Hospitalization Fund" will be made by this Board to the hospital <br />providing essential hospital care to medically indigent and acutely <br />ill or injured residents of Indian River County whose hospitaliza- <br />tion has been authorized under the provisions of this program by <br />the Indian River County Health Department. <br />7. A record will be maintained by this Board of all expenditures made <br />from the t1Indian River County Indigent Hospitalization Fund'' and <br />these records shall include: <br />a. The patient's name, age, sex and race; and, if married, the <br />full name of the patient's spouse. <br />b. The parents' full names if the patient is a minor. <br />c. Patient's address. <br />d. Name of medical doctor who diagnosed patient and certified <br />hospitalization essential to his treatment. <br />e. Physician's diagnosis. <br />f. The calendar days of hospitalization received. <br />g. A record of payment to this hospital; <br />and, _ <br />BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Board will make all medical and <br />financial records shpporting direct expenditures from the "Indian River <br />County Indigent Hospitalization Fund" available for review by the State <br />Board of Health, and this Board will submit quarterly to the State Board of <br />Health a certification identifying hospitalized cases and the payments for <br />the case of each made from the "Indian.River County Indigent Hospitalization <br />Fund", together with a quarterly statement of expenditures certifying that <br />