Special Notice / Hearing: None__
Vote Required: 4/5
To: Honorable Board of Supervisors
From: Louise F. Rogers, Chief, San Mateo County Health
Marc Meulman, Director, Public Health, Policy and Planning
Subject: Amendment to the Agreement with Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. dba Heluna Health for the Recruitment, Hiring, Management and Oversight of Personnel
RECOMMENDATION:
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Recommendation to:
A) Adopt a resolution authorizing an amendment to the agreement with Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. dba Heluna Health for the recruitment, hiring, management and oversight of personnel, increasing the amount payable by $6,500,000 to an amount not to exceed $12,500,000, and extending the term from December 31, 2021 to June 30, 2022; and
B) Approve an Appropriation Transfer Request (ATR) in the amount of $6,500,000 in Epidemiology, Laboratory Capacity Expansion funds to cover this amendment.
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BACKGROUND:
On May 26, 2020, San Mateo County Health addressed the Board with its proposed plan to increase the contact investigation and tracing workforce of the Public Health, Policy and Planning (PHPP) division's Communicable Disease Control (CD) program as needed for the COVID-19 mitigation strategy. Contact investigation and tracing are core capabilities of the PHPP infrastructure needed to respond to and control the spread of COVID-19. In the County, contact investigation and tracing has been a critical CD program tool for responding to any one of the 87 communicable diseases they address each year. The COVID-19 pandemic requires significantly scaling up that capability.
In March 2020, PHPP received County staff on loan from other departments within the County to temporarily perform contact tracing.
In October 2020, under a contract with the State of California, Public Health Foundation Enterprises, Inc. dba Heluna Health (Heluna) began providing contact tracers to the CD program.
On December 31, 2020, the County...
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