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FROM: Mark Finucane, Health Services Director Contra
10 Costa
DATE: June 28, 1995 County
SUBJECT: Approval of Standard Contract #24-662-3 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
#24-662-3 with Mental Health Consumer Concerns, Inc. , for the period .
from July 1, 1995 through June 30, 1996, in the amount of $60,736, for
patients' rights advocacy services at certain private hospitals
designated by County to provide 72-hour psychiatric detentions. This
document includes a six-month automatic extension through December 31,
1996, in the amount of $30, 368.
II. FINANCIAL IMPACT:
This Contract is included in the Department's Fiscal Year 1995-96
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 #24-662-3, 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 1995-96.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: YES SIGNATURE:
RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE
APPROVE OTHER
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SIGNATURE(S)
ACTION OF BOARD ON 1995 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED OTHER
VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
y 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 LA
Risk Management Phil hegr,MA i1fthe Board of
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