RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract #24–794–9(7) with BHC Sierra Vista Hospital, Inc., a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $250,000, to provide inpatient psychiatric hospital services to residents of Contra Costa County for the period from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is funded 100% by Mental Health Realignment. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
Assembly Bill (AB) 757, (Chapter 633, Statutes of 1994), authorized the transfer of state funding for Fee-For-Service/Medi-Cal (FFS/MC) acute psychiatric inpatient hospital services from the Department of Health Care Services to counties that chose to participate in this program. On September 9, 2014, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #24–794–9(6) with BHC Sierra Vista Hospital, Inc., for the period from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2015 for the provision of inpatient psychiatric hospital services to residents of Contra Costa County. Approval of Contract #24-794-9(7) will allow the Contractor to continue to provide services through June 30, 2016, including mutual indemnification for any claims arising out of the performance of this contract.
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