Title
Authorize the Chief Executive Officer of Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the San Benito County Contract ("Contract") for inpatient behavioral health services for residents from the San Benito County community effective March 1, 2019 through June 30, 2021.
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RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended the Board of Supervisors:
Authorize the Chief Executive Officer of Natividad Medical Center (NMC) to execute the San Benito County Contract ("Contract") for inpatient behavioral health services for residents from the San Benito County community effective March1, 2019 through June 30, 2021.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
San Benito County occasionally places behavioral health patients in the Natividad Medical Center inpatient Mental Health Unit for services. This contract identifies the provision and payment of acute psychiatric inpatient services when such services are available. There is a 30-day prior written notice termination clause in the contract.
San Benito County requests that the County of Monterey approve and sign the agreement before San Benito County signs the agreement.
Section 1457 of the Health and Safety Code provides that the records of a hospital or any other county medical facility that reveal the rates of payment for health care services rendered by, or purchased by, the hospital or other medical facility shall not be considered public records subject to disclosure pursuant to the California Public Records Act. Cal. Health & Safety Code ? 1457(c)(1). Accordingly, the payment rates have been redacted from the attached copy of the Agreement.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
County Counsel has reviewed and approved this Agreement as to legal form and risk provisions. The Agreement has also been reviewed and approved by NMC's Finance Committee on January 24, 2019 and by the NMC Board of Trustees on February 1, 2019.
FINANCING:
There is no impact to the General Fund.
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS STRATEGIC INITIATIVES:
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