ADOPTED - MARCH 11, 2008

Agenda Item No. 8

Introduced by the Finance Committee of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

RESOLUTION TO ADOPT AN AMENDMENT TO THE INGHAM

 COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER BOARD BYLAWS

RESOLUTION #08-065

WHEREAS, Ingham County operates a network of community health centers that provide outpatient ambulatory primary care health care services to 25,000 medically underserved individuals annually; and

WHEREAS, Ingham County operates six community health centers that undergo annual recertification through the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Health Care (BPHC) as Federally Qualified Health Center Look-Alike (FQHC-LA) operations; and

WHEREAS, successful FQHC-LA recertification results in the BPHC’s recommendation to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requesting continued designation of  each of these community health centers as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC); and

WHEREAS, the BPHC’s review of Ingham County’s recertification has determined that the Ingham County Community Health Center Board’s Bylaws composition language must be changed from “A majority of the Community Health Center Board members shall be individuals who are or will be served by the Community Health Centers and who, as a group, represent the individuals being served or to be served in terms of demographic factors, such as race, ethnicity and gender.”  to “At least fifty-one (51%) percent of the Community Health Center Board members must be active patients served by the Community Health Centers and who, as a group, represent the individuals being served or to be served in terms of demographic factors,

WHEREAS, the BPHC has indicated that failure to comply with this requirement could result in de-designation of the six community health centers; and

WHEREAS, the Health Officer has recommended that the Board of Commissioners authorize the Ingham County Community Health Center Board’s amended Bylaws as presented.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners hereby adopts the following amendment to the Ingham County Community Health Center Board’s Bylaws pending final approval of this change by the Ingham Community Health Center Board of Directors: the Ingham County Community Health Center Board’s Bylaws composition language is changed from “A majority of the Community Health Center Board members shall be individuals who are or will be served by the Community Health Centers and who, as a group, represent the individuals being served or to be served in terms of demographic factors, such as race, ethnicity and gender.”  to “At least fifty-one (51%) percent of the Community Health Center Board members must be active patients served by the Community Health Centers and who, as a group, represent the individuals being served or to be served in terms of demographic factors, such as race, ethnicity and gender.”

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FINANCE:  Yeas:  Grebner, Hertel, Weatherwax-Grant, Celentino, Schor, Dougan

Nays:  None          Absent:  None          Approved 3/5/08