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9 <br />STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA ) <br />AGREEMENT <br />COUNTY. OF LEE ) <br />THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 16th day of <br />November 1992, by and between the COUNTY OF LEE, a body both <br />politic and corporate, hereinafter referred to as "COUNTY", and <br />AMI-SUB OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC., a corporation organized and existing <br />under the laws of the State of North Carolina with an office and <br />place of business in Sanford, Lee County, North Carolina, hereinafter <br />called "HOSPITAL". <br />WITNESSETH: <br />WHEREAS, Hospital operates the Central Carolina Hospital in <br />Sanford, Lee County; and <br />WHEREAS, the County operates an ambulance service in Lee County <br />and desires to make its services available to the Hospital and the <br />patients treated there; and <br />WHEREAS, the Hospital is supportive of having Lee County assume <br />the role and responsibility of transporting all patients at Central <br />Carolina Hospital needing ambulance services; and <br />NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the <br />mutual promises herein contained, the parties have agreed as follows: <br />1. Lee County Ambulance Service will serve as the contact <br />point for all transports at Central Carolina Hospital, and that <br />includes Medicare, Medicaid, privately insured and the uninsured. <br />Lee County Ambulance Service will decide the order of transport as <br />well as the availability of transporters. <br />2. If it is necessary to utilize the Rescue Squad as a <br />transporter, the Hospital will be notified of the use of that agency <br />far enough in advance of the move that the Hospital may arrange to <br />have a nurse accompany any patient that has an infusing IV <br />medication. <br />3. The County will bill for services rendered by ambulance <br />service and will be responsible for collection for such accounts <br />except that when Hospital has an inpatient who needs to be <br />transferred to another facility for either a test or treatment and <br />then returned to Hospital, then Hospital will pay the cost of that <br />transfer in keeping with the ambulance services fee structure. <br />4. Hospital will contact the ambulance service as soon as it <br />knows there is a physicians' order to transport a patient. On Monday <br />through Friday all calls will go to the Sanford Police Department, <br />and on Saturday and Sunday the calls will be made to 776-4711. <br />