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C. 97

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	December 7, 2021

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Novation Contract #24-712-8 with Telecare Corporation

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 12/07/2021

APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED

OTHER

Clerks Notes:

VOTE OF SUPERVISORS

AYE:

John Gioia, District I Supervisor
Candace Andersen, District II Supervisor
Diane Burgis, District III Supervisor
Karen Mitchoff, District IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District V Supervisor

Contact:	Suzanne Tavano, Ph.D., 925-957-5212
cc:	E Suisala M Wilhelm

I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED: December 7, 2021
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Novation Contract #24-712-8 with Telecare Corporation, a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $2,270,174, to provide and manage services for Hope House, a sixteen (16) bed short-term residential facility, for adults with mental illness, for the period from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, which includes a six-month automatic extension through December 31, 2022, in an amount not to exceed $1,135,087.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Approval of this contract will result in budgeted expenditures of up to $2,270,174 and will be funded by 70% Mental Health Services Act ($1,589,122) and 30% Federal Medi-Cal ($681,052) revenues. (No rate increase)

BACKGROUND:

This contract meets the social needs of the County’s population by providing a short-term crisis residential facility for adults, age eighteen (18) and older, who require support to avoid hospitalization or are being discharged from the hospital or long-term locked facilities and require step-down care to transition to community living. The Behavioral Health Services Department has been contracting with Telecare Corporation since December 2013.

On December 15, 2020, the Board of Supervisors approved Novation Contract #24-712-7 with Telecare Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $2,204,053, to provide and manage services at Hope House, a short-term crisis residential facility for the period from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021, which includes a six-month automatic extension through December 31, 2021, in an amount not to exceed $1,102,026.

Approval of Novation Contract #24-712-8 replaces the automatic extension under the prior contract and allows this contractor to continue providing services through June 30, 2022.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this contract is not approved, County clients in need of crisis residential or step-down care will not have access to this contractor’s services possibly resulting in higher levels of placement, including hospitalization.