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Home My WebLink AboutAgenda - 04-19-1994 - VIII-H 1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item NO. H ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 19, 1994 SUBJECT: Increase in State Funding for Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health. DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 (1) Notices of Fund Increases TELEPHONE NUMBER: (2) Local Health Department Budget Pages Hillsborough -732-8181 (3) Contract Amendment Page Chapel Hill -968-4501 Mebane -227-2031 Durham -688-7331 PURPOSE: To accept an increase in funding from the consolidated state contract to enhance the Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health budgets. These funds will enable the health department to purchase Norplant and other Family Planning methods for an additional eighty-three low income Orange County residents, provide incentives to enhance participation in the Family Planning clinic and a small amount of funds to increase the personal mileage line item. BACKGROUND: The attached memos indicate the increase in state funds for the Family Planning, Maternal and Child Health Programs. The funds are allocated for the current fiscal year and must be expended by ,Tune 30, 1994. No county match is required. RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the funds be accepted and the Chair be authorized to sign the budget pages and the contract amendment. i State of North Carolina V�I Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources ; ' • • Division of Maternal & Child Health r James B. Hunt, Jr., rry E F1 Jonathan B. Howes,, Secretary January 6, 1994 MEMORANDUM TO: Local Health Directors ORANGE County or District FROM: Kevin Ryan, MD, MPH Chief, Women's Health Section SUBJEC'I: One-Time Funds For Women's Health Services The Division of Maternal and Child Health recently identified approximately $555,000 in one-time MCH Block Grant carry-forward funds which are available to local providers as targeted block grant funding to support maternity and women's preventive health services. The Women's Health Section has calculated each agency's share in this funding according to the equity funding formula developed by the Equity Funds Task Force. Your agency's share of this one-time funding is $ 11 ,510 These funds must be expended by June 30, 1994 and are being distributed for the following targeted purposes: Purchase of contraceptives. Support for dig&osis M-treatment of abnormal pap smears. Support for sterilization. Support for patient incentives to increase participation in maternal health and women's preventive health services. Support for activities designed to increase WPH caseload. Support for patient transportation. P.O. Box 27687,Raleigh,North Carolina 27611-7687 Telephone 919-733-3816 An Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer 50%recycled/ i o%post-consumer paper 3 Local Health Directors January 6, 1994 Page -2- In awarding these funds we are attempting to allow you flexibility to use them to address local needs while at the same time targeting statewide priorities such as increasing the women's preventive health caseload and improving access to reproductive health services in general. We have attached a form with definitions of the block grant "targets" and a request for information about projected expenditures. Please complete the attached form and attach 'it to a Family Planning or Maternal Health budget revision and send to the DEHNR Contracts Unit at your . earliest convenience, but not later than March 31, 1994. Thank you for your attention to this announcement. Please feel free to contact your regional office with any questions. KR/mf cc: WPH Consultants Regional MCH Nurse Consultants Dr. Wolfe Barry Goldstein Tom Vitaglione Alice Lenihan Marcia Roth WHS Central Office Staff 4 State of North Carolina Department of Environment, - Health and Natural Resources ` • • Division of Maternal & Child Health **`' James B. Hunt, Governor � C u � p Jonathan B. Howes, Secretary C I—1 f�1 February 18 , 1994 MEMORANDUM TO: Daniel B. Reimer, Director Orange County Health Department FROM: Susan H. Bailey,- Head , Preventive S_ervices Branch�`11P Wayne Raynor, Head iu V Maternal Health Branch Subject: Increase in MCH Block Grant Funds As a result of Congressional action, North Carolina has received a $287, 000 increase in MCH Block Grant funds. These new funds have been allocated according to the state Block Grant Plan approved by the General Assembly which calls for 70% of any new funds to be allocated to local health departments through the Healthy Mothers/Healthy Children (HMHC) Block Grant mechanism and 30% to Children with Specialized Health Services. The Division of Maternal and Child Health is allocating approximately $201,000 according to the revised equity formula. This formula calls for the following distribution: . 20% divided equally among all counties, . 20% based on performance, and . 60% based on need. The amount of your health department's HMHC allocation is $1,058.00 . While it is always good news to receive additional funding, we recommend that you treat these funds as one-time money. The 1994 General Assembly has to appropriate funds to offset the loss of Low- Income Energy Assistance (LISA) funds, and they may decide to use these funds to help do that. Until funds are identified to replace the LIEA funds, it would be best for local health departments to use funds for a one-time cost such as School Health Funds and/or purchase medical supplies and equipment, etc. Please remember that the HMHC funds may be budgeted in maternal health, child health, and/or family planning. The deadline for submitting your budget revision to Purchase and Contracts is April 1, 1994. Health department allocations not budgeted as of this date will be transferred to other health departments in need of additional funds. pc: Regional Consultants Administrative Consultants P.O. Box 27687,Raleigh,North Carolina 27611-7687 Telephone 919-733-3816 An Equal Opportunity Affirmative Action Employer 50%recycled/ 1096 post-consumer paper LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET N.C.Department of Environment, Health,and Natural Resources Revision Number Division of General Services SFY Division of Maternal and Child Health P.O. Number 5 -1- Effective Date Termination Date Contract Number Contractor: f co n 14 np n Activity: Family Planning Project Director: 712 r); 9 1 L A "t- — Total Budget:$ /Z, 5) 0 ITEM DESCRIPTION CLASSIFICATION ITEM AMOUNT E STATE EXPENDITURES: X Salaries & Fringe Benefits SA/FR 1000 Operating Expenses OP E)CP 2000 S-) t) P Purchase of Equipment EQUIP 5000 E General Contracted or Purchased Services GENERAL 6100 N School Health D Clinician CLN 6863 Laboratory T Pharmacy Services U Transfer TXIX R Subtotal State Expend. $ LOCAL EXPENDITURES: LOCAL EXP 9000 S TOTAL EXPENDITURES—equal to Total Receipts $ 1�t LOCAL FUNDS: R Appropriation APPROP 101 E T-AIX T)CIX 102 Other Receipts OTHR REC 103 Subtotal Local Funds $ E STATE/FEDERAL/SPECIAL FUNDS: P T Subtotal State/Federal/Special $ TOTAL RECEIPTS—equal to Total Expenditures $ Local Authorized Official Signature Date BmrA Had Division/Section Signature Date wtw Finance Officer Signature Date Axmuntmt Fiscal Management Signature Date wtw DEHNR 2948(Revised 2/93) General Services Division(Review 2/94) A 6 LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT BUDGET N.C.Department of Environment, Health,and Natural Resources Revision Number-.0— Division of General Services SFY Division of Maternal and Child Health ————— P.O.Number 5 3 5 1 0 6 Effective Date Termination Date Contract Number Contractor: r ah a e Cn ++-e c A o 4 Activity: Child Health Project Director: I rh Total Budget:$ f b S P ITEM DESCRIPTION CLASSIFICATION ITEM AMOUNT E STATE EXPENDITURES: X Salaries & Fringe Benefits SA/FR 1000 Operating Expenses OP EXP 2000 P Purchase of Equipment EQUIP 5000 E General Contracted or N Purchased Services GENERAL 6100 School Health SCH HLTH 6200 D Clinician CLN 6863 I T Laboratory LAB 6862 Pharmacy Services RX SERV 6865 U Transfer TXIX 0864 R Subtotal State Expend. $ E LOCAL EXPENDITURES: LOCAL EXP 9000 S TOTAL EXPENDITURES—equal to Total Receipts $ / OS? LOCAL FUNDS: R Appropriation APPROP 101 E TXIX TXIX 102 Other Receipts OTHR REC 103 C E Subtotal Local Funds $ STATE/FEDERAL/SPECIAL FUNDS: I P T Subtotal State/Federal/Special $ TOTAL RECEIPTS—equal to Total Expenditures $ Local Authorized Official Signature Date B=ch Hnd Division/Section Signature Date >niall Finance Officer Signature Date A==a+t Fiscal Management Signature Date i„wW DEHNR 2948(Revised 2/93) General Services Division(Review 2/94) AMENDMENT NUMBER to CONSOLIDATED CONTRACT between THE STATE - and THE ORANGE COUNTY/DISTRICT HEALTH DEPARTMENT This Contract covering the period from July 1, 1993 -- to June 30, 1994 (Month) (-Day) (Year) (Month) -- (Day) (Year) is hereby amended to add the following activities: ACTIVITIES All provisions and clauses set forth in the Contract are hereby incorporated in this Amendment and constitute the terms and conditions applicable for the above activities involving State funding. CONTRACTOR SIGNATURES NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND NATURAL RESOURCES Health Director Date Jonathan B. Howes, Secretary By Finance Officer Date Department Head's Signature or Authorized Agent Chairman of County Date Commissioners DEHNR 2946A (Revised 3/93) General Services Division (Review 10/95)