RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee, to execute, on behalf of the County, Contract #24–794–8(11) with John Muir Behavioral Health Center, a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $1,000,000, to provide inpatient psychiatric hospital services for children and adolescents, for the period from July 1, 2012 through June 30, 2013.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is funded 100% by Mental Health Realignment funds. (Rate increase) No County match required.
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 Services to the Department of Mental Health (DMH). On January 1, 1995, the DMH transferred these funds and the responsibility for authorization and funding of Medi-Cal acute psychiatric inpatient hospital services to counties that chose to participate in this program.
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