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Consider recommendations regarding services agreements with Aurora Las Encinas, LLC (ALE) for psychiatric inpatient hospital services for Fiscal Years (FYs) 2025-2027; Community Care on Palm Riverside, LLC (CCOP) for skilled nursing facility services for FYs 2025-2028; RG Legacy II, LLC d.b.a. Pasadena Nursing Center (PNC) and Foothill Heights Care Center, LLC (FHCC) for Skilled Nursing Facility Services for FYs 2025-2027, as follows:
a) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with ALE (not a local vendor), an institution for mental disease, for the provision of psychiatric inpatient hospital services for a total maximum contract amount not to exceed $820,000.00, inclusive of $410,000.00 per FY, for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027;
b) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with CCOP (not a local vendor), an institution for mental disease, for the provision of skilled nursing facility services for a total maximum contract amount not to exceed $705,000.00, inclusive of $235,000.00 per FY, for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2028;
c) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with RG Legacy II, LLC d.b.a. PNC (not a local vendor), an institution for mental disease, for the provision of skilled nursing facility services for a total maximum contract amount not to exceed $850,000.00, inclusive of $425,000.00 per FY, for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027;
d) Approve, ratify, and authorize the Chair to execute an Agreement for Services of Independent Contractor with FHCC (not a local vendor), an institution for mental disease, for the provision of skilled nursing facility services for a total maximum contract amount not to exceed $1,058,500.00, inclusive of $529,250.00 per FY, for the period of July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027;
e) Delegate to the Director of the Department of Behavioral Wellness or designee the authority to (i) suspend, delay, or interrupt the services under the Agreement for convenience as provided in Section 20 of all four Agreements; (ii) make immaterial changes to the Agreement as provided in Section 26 of all four Agreements; (iii) reallocate funds between funding sources as provided in Section I.E of Exhibit B of the Agreements for CCOP, PNC, and FHCC; (iv) withhold payment for non-submission of service data and other information per Exhibit B of the Agreements for CCOP, PNC, and FHCC; (v) deny or withhold payment for unsatisfactory clinical documentation per Exhibit B of all four Agreements; (vi) increase the augmented service rates as provided in Exhibit B-1 of the Agreement for CCOP; (vii) adjust the per diem rate as provided in Exhibit B-1 of the Agreements for PNC and FHCC; and (viii) amend the Program goals, outcomes, and measures as provided in Exhibit E of all four Agreements all without altering the maximum contract amount and without requiring the Board of Supervisors’ approval of an amendment of the Agreement, subject to the Board of Supervisors’ ability to rescind this delegated authority at any time; and
f) Determine that the above-recommended actions are not a project that is subject to environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(4), finding that the actions are governmental funding mechanisms and/or fiscal activities that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment.