Title
Agreement to provide After Hours Mental Health Emergency Services for Compass Behavioral Health.
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Recommended Action: Approve the agreement and authorize the Chairman to sign.
Background: As a licensed community mental health center, Compass Behavioral Health must provide 24-hour mental health services for consumers in Grant, Morton and Stanton County. Compass Behavioral Health has contracted with COMCARE to provide some after-hours services. 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.
Alternatives: If the agreement is not approved Compass Behavioral Health will have to contract elsewhere for after-hours services and COMCARE will lose the revenue earned by providing these services.
Financial Considerations:
Revenue: Compass Behavioral Health will pay COMCARE
$400.00 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: 310036-16
Term: 08/1/15 to 07/31/16
Budget Authority Adjustment: Sufficient budget authority is included in the 2015 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.