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C. 78

To:	Board of Supervisors
From:	Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Date:	July 26, 2022

Contra

Costa

County

Subject:

Contract #24-680-41 with Telecare Corporation

APPROVE	OTHER
RECOMMENDATION OF CNTY ADMINISTRATOR	RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE

Action of Board On: 07/26/2022

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., 925-957-5169
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: July 26, 2022
Monica Nino, County Administrator

BY:	, Deputy

RECOMMENDATION(S):

APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #24-680-41 with Telecare Corporation, a corporation, in an amount not to exceed $1,909,065, to provide gero-psychiatric and subacute mental health care services to severely and persistently mentally ill (SPMI) clients, for the period from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.

FISCAL IMPACT:

Approval of this contract will result in budgeted expenditures of up to $1,909,065 and will be funded by 71% Mental Health Realignment ($1,361,874), 19% Hospital Enterprise Fund I ($360,139) and 10% County General Fund ($187,052) allocations. (Rate increase)

BACKGROUND:

The County has been contracting with Telecare Corporation since July 1997 to provide gero-psychiatric services and subacute care for SPMI County residents at the contractor’s Villa Fairmont Mental Health Center, Garfield Neuro-Behavioral Center, Gladman Psychiatric Health Facility, and Morton Bakar Center. This contract is part of the Department’s cost saving plan to reduce the number of high-cost State Hospital beds by developing alternative placements.

On June 8, 2021, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #24-680-40 with Telecare Corporation, in an amount not to exceed $1,909,065, for the provision of gero-psychiatric and subacute mental health care for SPMI clients, for the period from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022.

Approval of Contract #24-680-41 will allow this contractor to continue providing gero-psychiatric and subacute mental health care services through June 30, 2023.

CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:

If this contract is not approved, the County’s SPMI adults will not have access to this contractor’s gero-psychiatric and subacute care services resulting in placements in State Hospital facilities at greater cost to the County.