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Approve and authorize the Director of Health or Assistant Director of Health to execute a no-extension Amendment No. 1 to Mental Health Services Agreement A-13465 with Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. to increase FY 2017-18 amount from $ $688,218 to $822,935 (an increase of $134,717) for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $1,303,111 for the term July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018.
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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 a no-extension Amendment No. 1 to Mental Health Services Agreement A-13465 with Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. to increase FY 2017-18 amount from $ $688,218 to $822,935 (an increase of $134,717) for a revised total Agreement amount not to exceed $1,303,111 for the term July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2018.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Star View Behavioral Health, Inc. is a high-level mental health treatment facility serving emotionally disturbed youngsters between the ages of 11 and 17 years. Services are provided through a 16-bed Psychiatric Health Facility (PHF), and through a 44-bed locked Community Treatment Facility (CTF) which provides sub-acute care, supervision and intensive treatment in a structured and secure residential environment. The facility is fully secured and designed to assist youth who have extensive histories of treatment failures from other placements. 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. This Amendment No. 1 adds additional CTF mental health services to meet the level of care of the current placement, and increases the PHF and CTF rates effective July 1, 2017.
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...
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