Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Jei Africa, Director, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
Lee Pullen, Director, Aging and Adult Services
Subject: Agreement with Telecare Corporation for Psychiatric Treatment Services and Long-Term Care
RECOMMENDATION:
title
Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Telecare Corporation for psychiatric treatment services and long-term care for clients of the Public Guardian, for the term of July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025, in an amount not to exceed $7,169,915.
body
BACKGROUND:
Telecare Corporation (Telecare) is one of the nation's largest providers of adult mental health services. Telecare operates programs tailored to individuals with co-occurring conditions such as homelessness, substance use disorder, and developmental disabilities. Telecare has provided psychiatric treatment services for County residents since 1982.
DISCUSSION:
Through this agreement, Telecare will continue to operate the County's Cordilleras facility as a Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (MHRC) and Cordilleras Suites program until the new Cordilleras Health and Healing Campus is ready for occupancy. The new campus is under construction and expected to open no later than September 2024. Until that time, Telecare will continue to be the provider of all services at the Cordilleras MHRC and Cordilleras Suites program. Once all residents have been transitioned out of the existing Cordilleras MHRC to one of the four new MHRC's on the campus, to co-housing on the campus, or to residential placements within the community, the Cordilleras Suites program will end, and those services will be terminated from this agreement. At that time, Telecare will commence operations of one of the MHRCs and provision of support services to residents of the co-housing under separate agreements previously approved by this Bo...
Click here for full text