RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #77-596 with The Reutlinger Community, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $600,000, to provide skilled nursing facility (SNF) services for Contra Costa Health Plan (CCHP) members for the period August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2025.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Approval of this contract will result in contractual service expenditures of up to $600,000 over a two-year period and will be funded 100% by CCHP Enterprise Fund II.

BACKGROUND:

CCHP has an obligation to provide certain specialized SNF health care services for its members under the terms of their Individual and Group Health Plan membership contracts with the county. Members are released from the hospital to recover at an SNF until they are well enough to be sent home. These services include but are not limited to twenty-four (24) hour medical care, social service and case management coordination, wound care, respiratory therapy, nasogastric and gastric tube feeding, physical and speech therapy services. This contractor is a CCHP Network Provider effective August 1, 2023.