HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 08252009 - C.74RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee (Jeff Smith, M.D.), to
execute, on behalf of the County, Contract Amendment Agreement #26-602-3 with
Traditions Psychology Group, Inc., a corporation, effective May 1, 2009, to amend Contract
#26-602 (as amended by Amendment Agreement #26-602-1 and #26-602-2) to provide an
additional level of psychiatric services at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Contra
Costa Health Centers and the Main Detention Facility, with no change in the original
Payment Limit of $13,000,000 and no change in the original term of June 15, 2007 through
June 14, 2010.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Funding for this Contract is 100% Enterprise Fund I included in the Health Services
Departments Budget. As appropriate, patients and/or third-party payors will be billed for
services. This Amendment will be offset from cost savings due to cancellation of contracts
with individual psychiatrists and locum tenens staffing companies.
BACKGROUND:
On July 10, 2007, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #26-602 (as
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ADMINISTRATOR
RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD
COMMITTEE
Action of Board On: 08/25/2009 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
Clerks Notes:
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
AYE:Gayle B. Uilkema, District
II Supervisor
Mary N. Piepho, District III
Supervisor
Susan A. Bonilla, District
IV Supervisor
Federal D. Glover, District
V Supervisor
Contact: Jeff Smith, M.D.,
370-5113
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: August 25, 2009
David J. Twa, County Administrator and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
By: Celicia Nelson, Deputy
cc: Tasha Scott, Barbara Borbon
C. 74
To:Board of Supervisors
From:William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director
Date:August 25, 2009
Contra
Costa
County
Subject:Amendment #26-602-3 with Traditions Psychology Group, Inc.
BACKGROUND: (CONT'D)
amended by Amendment Agreement #26-602-1 and #26-602-2) to provide staffing and
leadership of the Inpatient Psychiatric and Psychiatric Emergency Units at Contra Costa
Regional Medical Center and Contra Costa Health Centers and the Main Detention Facility
including, but not limited to, providing a required number of psychiatrists necessary for
clinical coverage of patients twenty-four (24) hours a day, (7) seven days a week, a lead
psychiatrist to direct administrative and clinical supervision and supervision of all
non-clinical areas related to the medical staff of the Department of Psychiatry, through June
14, 2010.
Approval of Contract Amendment Agreement #26-602-3 will allow Contractor to provide
additional psychiatry coverage services including providing a Psychiatric Medical Director
at Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, Crisis Stabilization Unit and County's Main Detention Facility,
through June 14, 2010.