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Approve two contracts to provide acute psychiatric inpatient treatment services with St. Helena Hospital and St. Helena Hospital Center for Behavioral Health for $620,136 and with Sierra Vista Hospital for $100,000 for the period beginning October 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018; and Authorize the County Administrator to execute the contracts and any amendments that remain within budgeted appropriations
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Health & Social Services (H&SS) recommends that the Board of Supervisors approve two contracts to provide acute psychiatric inpatient treatment services with St. Helena Hospital and St. Helena Hospital Center for Behavioral Health for $620,136 and with Sierra Vista Hospital for $100,000 for the period beginning October 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018; and Authorize the County Administrator to execute the contracts and any amendments that remain within budgeted appropriations.
SUMMARY:
St. Helena and Sierra Vista Hospitals provide acute psychiatric inpatient treatment. Inpatient services include a 24-hour secure setting for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of individuals in an acute psychiatric crisis. Clients are typically admitted when placed on a Welfare and Institutions (W&I) Code 5150, indicating that the individual is a danger to self, others, or gravely disabled due to a mental illness. Inpatient care includes 24-hour psychiatric and nursing care, crisis intervention services, administration and supervision of the clinical use of psychotropic medications, individual and group psychotherapy, and psychological services.
The contracts with St Helena and Sierra Vista hospital are utilization-based, with H&SS making payments for actual usage as this occurs. These Hospital contracts have been prepared and negotiated in accordance with County purchasing policies and provide for continuous prov...
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