Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, Health System
Carlos Morales, Director, Correctional Health Services
Subject: Agreement with Liberty Healthcare Corporation for Providing Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Services at the Maguire Correctional Facility
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing an agreement with Liberty Healthcare to provide acute inpatient psychiatric services for the term of July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021, in an amount not to exceed $8,868,849.
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BACKGROUND:
The acute psychiatric needs of inmates in San Mateo County have historically been met through two contracted beds at Santa Clara County. Santa Clara County ended that agreement January 2016 and since that time, inmates have been transported to Psychiatric Emergency Services at San Mateo Medical Center. On April 13, 2017 we requested and received funding to expand the Behavioral Health Pods and to implement a solution to meet the needs of inmates who have acute and severe psychiatric illnesses.
An acute inpatient psychiatric unit inside the jail will allow inmates in need of involuntary psychiatric care to be evaluated and treated onsite. Inmates who require involuntary psychiatric treatment will be given bed priority. Additional beds will be filled with inmates transitioning to a sub-acute level of psychiatric care such as inmates who no longer meet the criteria for involuntary treatment but still too unstable to be housed in the general population. Once an inmate stabilizes to a point where a less intensive setting is appropriate, he or she will be discharged to a less intense level of care, such as the Behavioral Health Pod.
An RFP process was conducted and the selection committee agreed that Liberty Healthcare is best qualified to treat this high risk population with specialized treatment needs.
DISCUSSION:
Liberty Healthcare has direct experience impleme...
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