Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Chester J. Kunnappilly, MD, Chief Executive Officer, San Mateo Medical Center
Subject: Agreement with Galen Inpatient Physicians, PC dba Vituity for Hospitalist Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Galen Inpatient Physicians, PC dba Vituity to provide hospitalist and medical director services for the term of June 1, 2023, through May 31, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $12,492,529.
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BACKGROUND:
San Mateo Medical Center (SMMC) continues to need contracted medical staff to provide hospitalist and associated medical director services. "Hospitalists" are physicians who provide professional medical services to patients admitted to the hospital day and night until the patient is discharged.
Although Administrative Memorandum B-1 exempts physician and urgent medical services from competitive procurement requirements, in 2014, a request for proposal (RFP) was conducted to evaluate the market's ability to provide a dedicated group of full-time hospitalist physicians to improve provider consistency and quality of care. That RFP resulted in the successful selection of a large national group to provide hospital services.
In 2017, SMMC conducted an informal solicitation for provider groups to take over the contract when the previously selected contractor and SMMC could not successfully resolve contractual and service issues. The informal solicitation consisted of reaching out to several of the vendors that responded to the 2014 RFP. Of those vendors, Galen Inpatient Physicians, PC dba Vituity (Vituity) demonstrated an ability to take over the service within a short window (three months). Vituity already had established a track record for quality care by being SMMC's contracted services provider for the Emergency Department coverage under the group's Calif...
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