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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-14726 with Odd Fellow - Rebekah Children's Home of California, Inc., retroactively to August 25, 2021, to terminate the Hospital Diversion program and revise the total Agreement amount from $3,780,294 to $2,902,895 for the same term of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023.
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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-14726 with Odd Fellow - Rebekah Children's Home of California, Inc., retroactively to August 25, 2021, to terminate the Hospital Diversion program and revise the total Agreement amount from $3,780,294 to $2,902,895 for the same term of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Odd Fellow - Rebekah Children's Home of California, Inc. provides Residential Treatment, Hospital Division, and Partial Hospitalization Program services to Monterey County children and youth who require the highest level of residential care. The goals of the program services are to prevent placement into an inpatient hospital, out-of-state residential, or juvenile justice facility and reduce inappropriate behavioral and/or psychiatric symptoms to a level of care whereby the youth can return home or move to a lower level of care.
This Amendment No. 2 terminates Program 2: Hospital Diversion, effective August 25, 2021, as per the closure notice provided by Odd Fellow.
This work supports the following Monterey County Health Department 2018-2022 Strategic Plan Initiative: 3. Ensure access to culturally and linguistically appropriate, customer-friendly, quality health services. It also supports one of the ten essential public health services, specifically: 7. Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provisions of health care when...
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