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FROM:
William Walker, M.D. , Health Services Director
By: Ginger Marieiro, Contracts Administrator ! Contra
DATE: April 10, 1997 Costa
County
SUBJECT:
Approval of Emergency Residential Care Placement Agreement #24-086-113 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 with Winnie Harrison dba Harrimon House,
effective March 1, 1997 through December 31, 1997, to provide emergency
residential care to mentally disturbed adults who are potentially eligible for
SSI/SSP, with maximum payments of $694 per client per month; and
b. Authorize the Auditor-Controller to pay a maximum of $92 per month through
December 31, 1997, 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 SO clients per year.
Approval of Emergency Residential Care Placement Agreement #24-086-113 will allow
the Contractor to provide service through December 31, 1997.
CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENTS YES SIGNATURE:);
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
Contact: Donna M. Wigand (313-6411) OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN.
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