Agenda 05/13/2013 Item # 4A5/14/2013 4.A.
PROCLAMATION
3 the Collier County Medical Society (CCMS) recognized a need for
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specialty medical care for low income uninsured adults in the county; and'
WHEREAS, the
CCMS had several hundred members who were specialists ndand decided to
create the Physician Led Access Network or PLAN to meet t is
rimary care safety net providers,
WHEREAS, the staff at PLAN take patient referrals from p
atients are income qualified at less than 2007 of the Federal Poverty
ass ure p
Level and make appointments with the next available appropriate specialist mem er
of PLAN, and,
or anized method of rotating specialty medical care helps entsto assure that no
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one volunteer specialist is over /y burdened with uninsured pate
specialists include dermatologists, cardiologists, urologists, radiologists,
WHEREAS, PLAN
onto %gists, surgeons and others, and
h sicians through PLAN have treated over 3, 000 county
WHEREAS, volunteer CCMS p y
idents and provided $18 million worth of free specialty medical care to t e
res
community over the past ten Years-
, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier County,
NOW THEREF ,
Florida, that May 2013 be designated as
COLLIER COUNTY PHy,SICIAN LED ACCESS NETWORK MONTH
DONE AND ORDERED THIS le Day of May, 2013.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIER COUNTY, FLORIDA
GEORGIA A. HILLER, CHAIRWOMAN
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5/14/2013 4.A.
COLLIER COUNTY
Board of County Commissioners
Item Number: 4A.A.
Item Summary: Proclamation designating May 2013 as Physicians Led Action Network
(PLAN) Month in Collier County in recognition of its 10th anniversary and contribution of $18
million in donated specialty medical care to Collier County "s uninsured. To be accepted by Bill
Kuzbyt, Psy.D., JD, PLAN Board Chairman; Michelle Jay, PLAN Program Manager; Joan Colfer,
MD, MPH, Collier County Department of Health; and Margaret Eadington Executive Director,
Collier County Medical Society. Sponsored by Commissioner Coyle.
Meeting Date: 5/14/2013
Prepared By
Approved By
Name: SheffieldMichael
Title: Manager- Business Operations, CMO
Date: 4/24/2013 12:06:51 PM
Name: SheffieldMichael
Title: Manager- Business Operations, CMO
Date: 4/30/2013 9:17:04 AM
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