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Approve and authorize the Director of Health or Assistant Director of Health to execute Amendment No. 2 to Mental Health Services Agreement A-13885 with Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. to revise the total Agreement amount from $2,312,658 to $2,424,715 due to rate change, which represents an increase of $112,057, for the term July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Approve and authorize the Director of Health or Assistant Director of Health to execute Amendment No. 2 to Mental Health Services Agreement A-13885 with Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. to revise the total Agreement amount from $2,312,658 to $2,424,715 due to rate change, which represents an increase of $112,057, for the term July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. is a high-level mental health treatment facility serving emotionally disturbed youth between the ages of 11 and 17 years. Services are provided through a 16-bed Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF), and through a 40-bed locked Community Treatment Facility (CTF) which provides sub-acute care, supervision and intensive treatment in a structured and secure residential environment. The facility provides a medically based, psychosocial-rehabilitation treatment program for youth requiring medium term intensive treatment with an on-grounds school, activity program, and treatment staff. The facility is one of the very few facilities in the state that has been consistently willing to accept and care for our high needs Monterey County children/youth This Amendment No. 2 revises the total Agreement amount due to an increase in the number of clients served in FY 19-20 and FY 20-21 and increase in the FY 2020-21 rates.
This Agreement contains the County's standard 30-day "no cause" provision (Section IV, B) and an additional defunding provision (Section IV, D), which provides the County the ability to amend or terminate the Agr...
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