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AN ORDINANCE making changes necessary to implement the 2016 Hospital Services Agreement between King County by and through its Executive and the Harborview Medical Center Board of Trustees and the Regents of the University of Washington; amending Ordinance 6818, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.42.010, Ordinance 6818, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.42.020, Ordinance 6818, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.42.040 and Ordinance 10563, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 2.42.080 and adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 4.46; and declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The current management agreement between King County, the Harborview Medical Center board of trustees and the University of Washington expires February 28, 2016.
B. Over the course of the last two years, representatives for the University of Washington, King County and the board of trustees for Harborview medical center have been negotiating terms for a new long term agreement for the University of Washington to operate and manage Harborview medical center.
C. The parties have now reached an agreement, which would be or has been approved by Ordinance xxxx (Proposed Ordinance 2016-0094). The agreement requires several code changes in order to be implemented.
D. Enactment of this ordinance is necessary to conform the King County Code to the provisions of the hospital services agreement. Without these code changes, certain provisions of the hospital services agreement could not go into effect.
E. These code changes will support the ongoing operations and management of the Harborview Medical Center and preserve the public health.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 6818, Section 3, and K.C.C. 2.42.010 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
For the purposes of this chapter:
A. "Administrator" ((shall)) means the chief administrative officer of the medical center, appointed under the terms of an approved management contract, who sh...
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