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MEMO <br /> <br />TO: Cabarrus County Board of Co~lssioners <br />FROM: William F. Pilkington <br />SUBJECT: Provision of Prenatal Care to Indigent of Cabarrus County <br /> <br />In order to continue to provide a high quality level of prenatal <br />care to the indigent population of Cabarrus County it is necessary <br />to adequately compensate the physicians who deliver these babies. <br />Currently, these physicians are compensated approximately $315.09 <br />for a normal delivery through state/federal grant monies. This <br />compensation amounts to about one-half of their normal delivery <br />charge. In order to ensure that these delivery services continue, <br />the county needs to provide the monies to pay the difference <br />between what the state/federal grant funds provide and the normal <br />charge (approxi~ately <br /> <br />Cabarrus Memorial Hospitsl has agreed to transfer $20,833 to the <br />health department to pay for this service for the last three <br />months of FY 1986-87. This $20,833 comes from the $250,000 that <br />the county appropriates to the hospital. The hospital has also <br />agreed that $70,000 of the FY 1987-88 appropriation designated for <br />Cabarrus Memorial can be allocated to the health department for <br />delivery funds. <br /> <br />ft <br /> <br />Attachment <br /> <br /> <br />