HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 07121994 - 1.77 TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director
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By: Elizabeth A. Spooner, Contracts Administrator Costa
DATE: June 22, 1994 County
SUBJECT: Approval of Standard Contract #24-662-2 with
Mental Health Consumer Concerns,, Inc.
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director or his designee
(Lorna Bastian) to execute on behalf of the County, Standard Contract
#24-662-2 with Mental Health Consumer Concerns, Inc. , for the period
from July 1, 1994 through June 30, 1995, in the amount of $60,736, for
patients' rights advocacy services at certain private hospitals
designated by County to provide 72-hour psychiatric detentions.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
This Contract is included in the Department's Fiscal Year 1994-95
Budget and is funded jointly by the County and private hospitals in
which the Contractor is providing services.
III. REASONS FOR RECOMMENDATIONS/BACKGROUND:
Pursuant to the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (Division 5, §§ 5000ff of
the Welfare and Institutions Code, the County is responsible for
designating certain facilities to provide involuntary 72-hour
psychiatric detentions and evaluation and involuntary intensive
treatment of persons who, as a result of a mental disorder, are a
danger to self and/or others or are gravely disabled. The State
mandates that patients so detained are entitled to patients' rights
advocacy services, including Certification Review (Doe vs. Gallinot)
Hearing services and Riese Capacity Hearing services.
For a number of years the County has contracted with Mental Health
Consumer Concerns, Inc. to provide mandated patients' rights advocacy
services, and under the provisions of Standard Contract #24-662-2, the
Contractor will provide such services for 5150 patients at Mt. Diablo
Medical Pavilion, CPC Walnut Creek Hospital and East Bay Hospital
during Fiscal Year 1994-95.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATUR • c_ //_—�
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMME ATI N OF BOARD C MMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ONeZ99
APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED wl' 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
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Contact: Lorna Bastian (313-6411) F SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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