MEETING DATE: 7/21/2020
DEPARTMENT: BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
DEPT HEAD/DIRECTOR: Alan Yamamoto
AGENDA ITEM PREPARER:
SBC DEPT FILE NUMBER: 810
SUBJECT:
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT- A. YAMAMOTO
Approve renewal of contract with Traditions Behavioral Health for Psychiatry Services for the term of July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021 for a total amount not to exceed $458,000.00.
SBC FILE NUMBER: 810
AGENDA SECTION:
CONSENT AGENDA
BACKGROUND/SUMMARY:
Traditions Behavioral Health (TBH) is a contract provider for psychiatry, M.D. services for the County Behavioral Health Department. TBH is the largest provider of psychiatry services to institutional and community-based mental health programs in California. TBH is known for its recruitment and placement of high quality psychiatrists. Also, unlike most psychiatry placement agencies that rotate psychiatrist placements every several months, or every few weeks, TBH will place the psychiatrist at a clinic on a long term basis. A placement can last for multiple years and TBH will provide a backup psychiatrist to fill any interim void between long term placements. Many county mental health departments in the Bay Area and other parts of the state utilize the services of TBH. Retaining the services of TBH adds to our ability to ensure ongoing psychiatry coverage in a time of psychiatry resource scarcity.
The volume of clients requiring psychiatric care involving outpatient medication services continues to increase, so the maximization of Psychiatry resource time is a necessity to serve all psych. medication service requests. The TBH contract is paid through MHSA funds, MediCal revenue generation, realignment funds and to a small degree private insurance payment.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT: Individuals receiving mental health services who are at the County Jail and Juvenile Hall receive psychiatric medication support services through the Behavioral Health Department.
BUDGETED:
Yes