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FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director Contra
By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts AdministratorCoS}a
DATE: June 14, 1991 County
SUBJEC14Pproval of Hospital Agreement #24-573 with Community � �`1
Psychiatric Center, Inc. for its Walnut Creek Hospital
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director or his designee
(Patricia Roach) to execute on behalf of the County, Hospital
Agreement #24-573, with Community Psychiatric Center, Inc. , for its
Walnut Creek Hospital, for the period May 15, 1991 through June 30,
1992 in the amount of $50, 000 for psychiatric hospitalization of
children and adolescents. This document contains provision for a
six-month automatic extension through December 31, 1992 .
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
The funding for this Contract has been included in the Department's
Fiscal Year 1990-91 Budget (Org. #5952) and in the Department's
Fiscal Year 1990-92 and 1992-93 Budget projections.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
Under the Statutes of 1987 (Assembly Bill 1362 , Bronzan) , Welfare and
Institutions Code Section 5751.7 establishes a prohibition against
minors being admitted for psychiatric treatment into the same
treatment ward as certain adults which might present a threat to the
physical safety of minors, except when a waiver has been granted by
the State under special circumstances.
Approval of this Contract will provide purchase of fixed price beds
for acute inpatient psychiatric hospital services for mentally-ill
children and adolescents so that minors need not be hospitalized on ,
the adult psychiatric units at Merrithew Memorial Hospital.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATUR
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOM4f�NDA ION OF BOAR COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED K OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
UNANIMOUS (ABSENT ) I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE
AYES: NOES: AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN
ABSENT: ABSTAIN: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD
OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
CC: Health Services (Contracts) ATTESTED JUN 2 5 WINt
Risk Management Phil Batchelor,Clerk of the Urd of
Auditor-Controller Suvervisors and County Administrator
Contr$ctor.
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