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TOI BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: William Walker, M.D. , Health Services Director V
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By: Ginger Marieiro, Contracts Administrator - �• Contra
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DATE: December 4, 1996 County
SUBJECT: Approval of Standard Form FY 1996-1997 Emergency Residential Care Placement
Agreements with Licensed Board and Care Facility Operators (Adult Mental
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SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
a. Approve and authorize the Health Services Director or his designee (Donna Wigand)
to execute on behalf of the County, Standard Form Novation Emergency Residential
Care Placement Agreements with the licensed board and care facility operators
listed on the attached addendum, effective July 1, 1996 through June 30, 1997,
to provide emergency residential care to mentally disturbed adults who are
potentially eligible for SSI/SSP, with maximum payments of $682 per client per
month through December 1996, and maximum payments of $716 per client per month
beginning January 1, 1997. These documents include automatic six-month
extensions for the period from July 1, 1997 through December 31, 1997.
b. Authorize the Auditor-Controller to pay a maximum of $90 per month through
December 1996, and a maximum of $95 per month beginning January 1, 1997, to
clients, who ,are placed in the board and care facilities under these Emergency
Residential Care Placement Agreements, for incidental expenses and personal
needs.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Under this program, the County pays State-established rates for the residential care
of mental health clients who are not yet receiving SSI/SSP (but who are potentially
eligible and have made formal application to the Social Security Administration for
SSI/SSP) , contingent upon the client's signing an agreement with the County to
reimburse the County from the SSI/SSP money, once it is finally granted by the Federal
government (usually 3 to 6 months retroactively back to the month of application) .
For those mentaiI health clients who are not granted SSI/SSP (i.e. , are found
ineligible) , the County's established Mental Health Program Funding covers the
residential care payments to the facility operators. Initially,. ten to twenty percent
of the clients are found ineligible by the Federal Social Security Administration,
and some of these are ultimately found eligible through appeal processes.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
For several years, the County's Mental Health Adult Services Program has used these
Agreements as an interim financing mechanism to facilitate the residential care of
mentally disabled clients and movement, of clients, who are deemed eligible for
SSI/SSP, from State or local inpatient facilities to community-based facilities. This
Program provides residential care for 40 to 50 clients per year.
Approval of Novation Emergency Residential Care Placement Agreements will allow the
Contractors to continue providing services through June 30, 1997.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: XX YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIG14ATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON JOB 17 ME APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VO/TE OF SUPERVISORS
`� UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
Contact: Donna Wigand (313-6411)
CC: Health Services (Contracts) ATTESTED
Risk Management Phil Batchelor,Clerk of the Board of
Auditor—Controller Supervisors and County Administrator
Contractor
M382/7-83 BY DEPUTY
ADDENDUM
LICENSED BOARD AND CARE FACILITY OPERATORS
FY 1996-97
NOVATION AGREEMENTS FOR THE PERIOD FROM: JULY 1996 THROUGH JUNE 30, 1997
AGREEMENT NUMBER: BOARD AND CARE FACILITY OPERATOR:
24-086-12 (23) PHOENIX PROGRAMS, INC,
24-086-44 (19) RUTH LAWTON
(DBA LAWTON FAMILY HOME)
24-086-59 (19) VIVIAN RHINE
(DBA VIV'S BOARD & CARE)
24-086-101 (10) RICA AND DOMINGA TORNEROS
(DBA TORNEROS RESIDENTIAL CARE HOME #1 AND #2)
24-086-105 (3) VIVENCIA & CENON AGUIRRE
(DBA SUNSHINE GUEST HOME)
24-086-107 (3) VERISTENE MCDOWELL
(DBA BRANDY'S BOARD & CARE)