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Agreement to Provide After Hours Mental Health Emergency Services for the Sumner Mental Health Center.
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Recommended Action: Approve the agreement and authorize the Chairman to sign.
Background: As a licensed community mental health center, Sumner Mental Health Center must provide 24-hour mental health services for consumers in Sumner County. Sumner County has contracted with COMCARE to provide some after-hours services for a number of years. Services include professional inpatient pre-admission screening and after-hours emergency services Monday through Thursday 5:00pm-8:00am and 5:00pm Friday to 8:00am Monday. Current COMCARE staff will handle the delivery of these services.
There were no significant changes to the contract this year except to set up the renewal process to be automatic each year going forward unless either party would like to make changes or terminate the contract.
Alternatives: If the agreement is not approved Sumner County will have to contract elsewhere for after-hours services and COMCARE will lose the revenue earned by providing these services.
Financial Considerations:
Revenue: Sumner will pay COMCARE
$800.00 administrative fee per month
$35.00 per inpatient screen
$2.00 per minute of phone or face-to-face after-hours emergency services.
Funding Source: 310036-15
Term: 10/15/14 to 09/30/14
Budget Authority Adjustment: Sufficient budget authority is included in the 2014 budget, no additional budget authority is being requested.
Legal Considerations: The authority for this action is K.S.A. 19-101 and a simple majority vote is required.
Policy Considerations: All Sedgwick County policies were followed in the development of this agreement.