Item 29

Authorize the Bureau of Infectious Disease Control, to enter into a grant agreement with Valley Regional Hospital Inc., Claremont, NH, under which the Division of Public Health Services will provide two portable ventilators and necessary accessories valued at $13,980 to enhance respiratory medical capacity in response to a large-scale health emergency, using funding supported by the federal Department of Homeland Security Grant to NH. Effective upon G&C approval and until the grant agreement is terminated by one of the parties.