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FROM: William Walker, M.D., Health Services Director Costa
By: Jacqueline Pigg, Contracts Administrator ®� County
DATE: June 7, 2006 � °"��
SUBJECT: Approval of Contract#24-794-8(5)with
John Muir Behavioral Health Center }
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S)OR RECOMMENDATIONS)&BACKGROUND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION(S):
Approve and authorize the Health Services Director, or his designee (Donna Wigand) to execute
on behalf of the County, Contract #24-794-8(5) with John Muir Behavioral Health Center, a non-
profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $100,000, to provide inpatient psychiatric hospital
services for children and adolescents, for the period from July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007.
John Muir Behavioral Health Center has requested to be held harmless and indemnified as part of
their standard for approval of the Agreement with the County. In the view of County Risk
Management this indemnification will create a minimal potential loss. The Health Services
Department desires to expedite approval of the Agreement as written.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This Contract is 100% funded by Mental Health Realignment funds.
BACKGROUND/REASON(S)FOR RECOMMENDATION(S):
Chapter 633, Statutes of 1994, AB 757, authorized the transfer of state funding for Fee-For-
Service/Medi-Cal (FFS/MC) acute psychiatric inpatient hospital services from the Department of
Health Services to the Department of Mental Health (DMH). On January 1, 1995, the DMH
transferred these funds and the responsibility for authorization and funding of Medi-Cal acute
psychiatric inpatient hospital services to counties that chose to participate in this program.
On August 9, 2005, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #24-794-8(4) with John Muir/Mt.
Diablo Behavioral Medicine Corporation dba Mt. Diablo Medical Pavilion for the period from July
1, 2005 through June 30, 2006, for the provision of inpatient psychiatric hospital services to
County-referred children and adolescents.
Approval of Contract #24-794-8(5) will allow John Muir Behavioral Health Center to provide
services through June 30, 2007.
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