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TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services DirectorContra
Costa
DATE: June 6, 1995 County
Approval of Patients' Rights Advocacy Services
SUBJECT: Agreement #29-480-2 with Mt. Diablo Behavioral Medicine
Corporation (dba Mt. Diablo Medical Pavilion)
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
I. RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee
(Lorna Bastian) , to execute on behalf of the County, Patients' Rights
Advocacy Services Agreement #29-480-2, with Mt. Diablo Behavioral
Medicine Corporation (dba Mt. Diablo Medical Pavilion) , for the period
from July 1, 1995 through June 30, 1996, to pay the County an amount
not. to exceed $6,000, for the Patients' Rights Advocacy Services
Program which the County provides at the Hospital under Standard
Contract #24-238-24 .
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
Upon approval of this Agreement, Mt. Diablo Medical Pavilion will pay
the County for the patients' rights advocacy services which the County
provides at the Hospital under Standard Contract #24-238-24 with
Mental Health Consumer Concerns, Inc. , and this funding will offset
the Contract costs.
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 detention 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. (MHCC) to provide mandated patients ' rights
advocacy services, heretofore, at no cost to certain private
psychiatric and acute care hospitals.
Under Patients' Rights Advocacy Services Agreement #29-480-2, Mt.
Diablo Behavioral Medicine Corporation (dba Mt. Diablo Medical
Pavilion) will pay the County for the services which i s providing
at the Hospital under Standard Contract #24-238-24 wi HCC.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE: A-1--Z �* -
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED 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.
Contact: Lorna Bastian (313-6411)
cc: Health Services (Contracts) ATTESTED
Mt. Diablo Behavioral Phil atchelor, Clerk of the Board of
Medicine Corporation &UpWVjM AW CountyAdmin&atU
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