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Hospital board approves nine contracts including emergency physicians, radiology and IT purchases
Summary
The Hospital Authority Board approved nine contracts covering emergency physicians, infection-surveillance software, cath-lab HVAC, radiology coverage, MRI services, lab capital purchases, clinical-trial management software and Cerner-related hardware, and a five-year revenue-sharing specialty pharmacy agreement.
The Hospital Authority Board voted to approve nine contracts presented by the finance committee and summarized to the full board, encompassing clinical services, capital equipment and IT purchases.
Board members were presented capsule summaries of each agreement and then voted on each contract. Among the largest or most operationally significant items were a rate adjustment for Southeastern Emergency Physicians (a requested hourly increase that translates to a board-noted total of about $372,855), an extension or replacement MRI-services arrangement to return to the original equipment manufacturer (Phillips) to accelerate service and repairs, a Radiology Dynamics amendment to bolster radiologist coverage tied to the…
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