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561 UPON MOTION of Commissioner Moss, seconded by Chairman Lentz with Commissioners Moss, Hamby, and Melvin and Chairman Lentz voting for, the Board approved the increase in cholesterol testing fees from $4.00 to $5.00 as requested by the Cabarrus County Board of Health. UPON MOTION of Chairman Lentz, seconded by Commissioner Hamby with Chairman Lentz and Commissioners Hamby, Moss, and Melvin voting for, the Board approved the following Contract between Coastal Emergency Services of Asheville, Inc. and Cabarrus County Health Department for the provision of jail health services. Cabarrus County Health Department P. O. Box 1149 Concord, North Carolina 28026-1149 CONTRACT AGREEMENT BETWEEN Coastal Emergency Services of Asheville, Inc. AND Cabarrus County Health Department This agreement is made and entered into this 1st day of November, 1990, by and between Coastal Emergency Services of Asheville, Inc., hereinafter referred to as the Provider, and Cabarrus County Health Department, hereinafter referred to as the Agency. WITNES SETH : Whereas, the Agency has identified a need for medical consultation at the Cabarrus County Jail; Whereas, it is to the Agency's interest, the community's benefit, and the enhancement of prisoners incarcerated in the Cabarrus County Jail to provide medical consultation services as herein specified; and, Whereas, Coastal Emergency Services of Asheville, Inc. is prepared to assume the responsibility for providing medical consultation services; now therefore, IT IS AGREED BETWEEN THE AGENCY AND Coastal Emergency Services of Asheville, Inc. as follows: 1. It is understood and acknowledged by the parties that Coastal Emergency Services of Asheville, Inc. (Provider) recruits and schedules physicians to staff the Emergency Department at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital; these physicians are not employees of the Provider and the Provider is not engaged in the practice of medicine. However, the Provider does pay the professional fees to the physicians for services rendered at Cabarrus Memorial Hospital Emergency Department. 2. The parties understand and acknowledge that the County's objectives and entering into this agreement are to protect the health and welfare of prisoners incarcerated in the Cabarrus County Jail, to avoid the spread of contagious disease among such prisoners, and to provide for emergency medical care for prisoners as necessary for their health and welfare. 3. At the time of jail admission all prisoners will be screened for health problems utilizing the receiving/screening form recommended by the American Medical Association and the North Carolina Medical Society. Where possible this screening will be done by jailers who have completed training in first aid and CPR. If appropriate and indicated by the screening, referrals will be made to area physicians. 4. Daily screening clinics or sick call will be conducted by a Health Department nurse, who will be a part-time employee of the Health Department whose sole responsibility will be jail health screenings. This nurse will refer problems requiring physician examination or treatment to qualified local physicians. 5. The jail will have jailers on duty on a continuing 24- hour basis who are trained in first aid and CPR to conduct routine health screenings of prisoners and to respond to prisoner health complaints of an urgent nature.