Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Michael del Rosario, Director, Correctional Health Services
Subject: Agreement with Liberty Healthcare Corporation to Provide Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Services at Maguire Correctional Facility
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Liberty Healthcare Corporation to provide acute inpatient psychiatric services for the term July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2026, in an amount not to exceed $10,939,956.
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BACKGROUND:
An acute inpatient psychiatric unit inside a correctional facility provides beds for incarcerated persons in need of involuntary psychiatric care. An inpatient unit also allows incarcerated persons to be fully evaluated and treated onsite. Additional beds are filled with incarcerated persons transitioning to a sub-acute level of psychiatric care, such as those who no longer meet the criteria for involuntary treatment but who still need to stabilize further before being housed in the general population. Once an incarcerated person stabilizes to the point where a less intensive setting is appropriate, they are discharged to a less intense level of care, such as the Behavioral Health Unit, designed to enhance and expand mental health treatment for incarcerated persons.
The acute psychiatric needs of incarcerated persons in San Mateo County have historically been met through two contracted beds at Santa Clara County. In January 2016, Santa Clara County ended that agreement. Through a Request for Proposals (RFP) in 2018, Correctional Health Services (CHS) entered into an agreement with Liberty Healthcare Corporation (Liberty) to manage a 10-bed acute inpatient psychiatric unit in the Maguire Correctional Facility that expires June 30, 2023.
DISCUSSION:
CHS conducted an RFP in December 2022 for these services, and the selection committee agree...
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