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To: BOARD OF SUPERVISORSl,d
William Walker, M.D. , Health Services Director
FROM: By: Ginger Marieiro, Contracts Administrator f. 1 Contra
Costa
DATE: November 25, 1997 ' County
SUBJECT: Approval of Emergency Residential Care Placement Agreement #24-086-113(1) with
Winnie Harrison dba Harrimon House (Adult Mental Health Program)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATION(S)&BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
a. Approve and authorize the Health Services Director or his designee (Donna M.
Wigand) to execute on behalf of the County Standard Form Emergency Residential
Care Placement Agreement #24-086-113(1) with Winnie Harrison dba Harrimon
House, effective January 1, 1998 through December 31, 1998, to provide
emergency residential care to mentally disturbed adults who are potentially
eligible for SSI/SSP, with maximum payments of $716 per client per month; and
b. Authorize the Auditor-Controller to pay a maximum of $97 per month through
December 31, 1998, to clients who are placed in the board and care facilities
under said Emergency Residential Care Placement Agreements for incidental
expenses and personal needs.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Under this program, the County pays the 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 mental health clients who are not granted SSI/SSP (i.e. , are found
ineligible) , the County covers the residential care payments to the facility
. operators through the County's established Mental Health Program Funding.
Initially, ten to twenty percent of the clients are found ineligible by the Federal
Social Security Administration, depending on changes in Federal guidelines, and then
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 Emergency Residential Care Placement Agreement #24-086-113(1) will allow
the Contractor to continue providing services through December 31, 1998.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT' YES SIGNATURE
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S): Q Q
ACTION OF BOARD ON 09 - I APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
` ' I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
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AYES: NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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PHIL BATCHELOR,CLERK OF THE BOA90 OF
SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
Contact Person: Eonna Wigand 9313-6411)
CC: Health Services(Contracts)
Risk Management
Auditor Controller BY DEPUTY
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