HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1962.12.20 - 19990December 20, 1962 Miscellaneous Resolution 4088
BY: Elmer Kephart
IN RE: STATE REIMBURSEMENT TO COUNTIES FOR CARE OF TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS
To the Oakland County Board of Supervisors
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
At the November 7, 1962, meeting of the Board a resolution of the Genesee County
Board of Supervisors was referred to your Tuberculosis Sanatorium Committee for study. This
resolution proposes an amendment to the existing law (Act 177, P.A. 1925, as amended) for
State reimbursement to counties operating a tuberculosis hospital or sanatorium. Under the
present law the State pays $4.00 per day toward the cost of care and treatment of such
patients, which amount was set several years ago and is grossly inadequate to meet the
increased cost of treatment of patients afflicted with tuberculosis.
During the past several years amendments to this law have been proposed whereby the
State would pay 50% of the cost o f the treatment of such patients. When the present amount
of reimbursement was set by the Legislature, the $4.00 represented 50% of the per patient
day cost but at the present time amounts to about 19% of the total cost of patient care.
Genesee County proposes that the reimbursement by the State be 50%0f the average
patient per day cost in the sanatoria through out the State for the maintenance and treatment
of patients afflicted with tuberculosis.
Your Tuberculosis Sanatorium Committee at a meeting on November 29, 1962, in
ioint session with the Board of Trustees of the Oakland County Tuberculosis Sanatorium,
reviewed this proposed legislation and adopted a resolution recommending that Oakland
County support this amendment in the 1963 Session of the State Legislature.
MR. CHAIRMAN, I offer the following resolution:
BE IT RESOLVED that Oakland County support an amendment to Act 177 of the Public
Acts of 1925, as amended, at the 1963 Session of the State Legislature whereby the reimbursement
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Elmer Kephart, Chairman
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by the State to the counties for the maintenance and treatment of patients afflicted by
tuberculosis shall be 50% of the average patient per day cost in the sanatoria throughout the
State of Michigan.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this proposed legislation which has already been
reviewed by the Legislative Committee of the Board be included in the 1963 County Legislative
Program.
MR. CHAIRMAN, on behalf of the Tuberculosis Sanatorium Committee, and with
the concurrence of the Legislative Committee, I move the adoption of the foregoing resolution.
TUBERCULOSIS SANATORIUM COMMITTEE