DATE: August 5, 2025
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Susan Holt, Director, Department of Behavioral Health
SUBJECT: Master Agreement for Eating Disorder Services
RECOMMENDED ACTION:
TITLE
Approve and authorize the Chairman to execute a Master Agreement for Eating Disorder Services for youth with serious emotional disturbance (SED) and adults with severe mental illness (SMI), effective August 5, 2025, through June 30, 2030, which includes a base contract and two optional one-year extensions, total not to exceed $6,500,000.
REPORT
There is no Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. Approval of the recommended action will allow the Department to enter into a master agreement for the provision of required medically necessary behavioral health eating disorder treatment services for all County persons served requiring these services at the appropriately designated level of care. This item is countywide.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION:
There is no viable alternative action. Should the Board not approve the recommended actions, this will result in youth with SED and adults with SMI not being placed within the appropriate treatment settings to receive adequate services to treat their eating disorder diagnoses and the Department not being able to fulfill the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) requirement of providing behavioral health treatment for persons living with an eating disorder.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. The maximum cost of the recommended Agreement ($6,500,000) will be funded with Mental Health Realignment funds. Sufficient appropriations and estimated revenues are included in the Department of Behavioral Health's Org 5630 FY 2025-2026 Recommended Budget and will be included in future budget requests for the duration of the term of the Agreement. Actual costs will be determined by actual services provided.
DISCUSSION:
On August 20, 2019, the Board approved Master Ag...
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