RECOMMENDATION(S):
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #24-794-7(22) containing mutual indemnification with St. Helena Hospital (dba Adventist Health Vallejo), a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $50,000, to provide inpatient psychiatric hospital services for the period July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this contract will result in budgeted expenditures of up to $50,000 for Fiscal Year 2022-23 and will be funded 100% by Mental Health Realignment Funds. (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 Services (DHCS) 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. The County has been contracting with St. Helena Hospital under this contract since January 1998.
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