BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT - A. YAMAMOTO

Approve contract with Cielo House, Residential Treatment Facility for the period of September 10, 2019 through June 30, 2020, in the amount not to exceed $100,000.00.

SBC FILE NUMBER: 810

Behavioral Health clients can require licensed residential treatment facility placement in very specific specialty treatment settings such as Cielo House, which offers treatment in a licensed residential care setting for Eating Disorders.

This particular placement can provide clients a high degree of staff support that includes implementing a treatment plan focused on assisting the client to develop skills to ameliorate or eliminate the symptoms eating disorders.  

The diagnoses for Eating Disorders are commonly identified as Anorexia or Bulimia and can entail binge eating, purging and/or restriction of normal amounts of food intake that can sometimes advance to levels that threaten health and wellbeing. As such these particular mental health diagnoses are included on the list of mental health diagnoses that meet the medically necessary levels mandated for the provision of mental health treatment required to be provided by the Behavioral Health Department.

1)  Approve the contract with Cielo House licensed Residential Treatment for a maximum amount of $100,000 for the term of FY 2019-20 and;

2)  Authorize the Board Chair to sign said contract.