Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: Majority
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Cassius Lockett, Director, Public Health Policy and Planning
Subject: Agreement with Telecare Corporation for Tuberculosis Civil Detention Services
RECOMMENDATION:
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Adopt a resolution authorizing the Chief of Health or her designee to execute an agreement with Telecare Corporation to provide tuberculosis civil detention services for the period of July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020, in an amount not to exceed $104,025.
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BACKGROUND:
Telecare Corporation (Telecare) operates Cordilleras Mental Health Rehabilitation Center (Cordilleras). Cordilleras provides psychiatric treatment services and direct observation therapy services for non-adherent tuberculosis (TB) patients referred by local jurisdictions in Northern California. The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) allocates pass through funding to San Mateo County to pay Telecare for these services.
DISCUSSION:
CDPH has provided $104,025 in funding to reserve a bed at Cordilleras for the detainment of one non-adherent TB patient in the Northern California region.
The resolution contains the County's standard provisions allowing amendment of the County's fiscal obligations by a maximum of $25,000 (in aggregate).
The agreement and resolution have been reviewed and approved by County Counsel as to form.
It is anticipated that approximately 63 active TB cases will be case managed by the County Health's TB Control Program to ensure that those patients are no longer infectious, with exposed contacts investigated and managed accordingly.
PERFORMANCE MEASURE:
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FY 2018-19 Actual
FY 2019-20 Projected
Number of active TB cases that will be case managed to ensure that those patients are no longer infectious, with exposed contacts investigated and managed accordingly
100%
63 active T...
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