Okaloosa County BOCC — August 5, 2014 — Action Item Printout — reading text

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AGENDA REQUEST DATE: August 5, 2014 TO: Honorable Chairman and Members of the Board FROM: Dino J. Villani SUBJECT: Baker Act Screening and Crisis Stabilization Unit Services Agreement DEPARTMENT: Public Safety BCC DISTRICT: All STATEMENT OF ISSUE: Request approval of the agreement with Ft. Walton Beach Medical Center to provide Baker Act Screening and Crisis Stabilization Unit services for Fiscal Year 2015 at a cost of $266,738.04. BACKGROUND: The County currently has an agreement with Fort Walton Beach Medical Center to provide Baker Act services to the County's indigent population. This agreement was updated in 2013 and is amended each year as funding is provided in the County's budget to continue to provide some of these required and important services to the County's indigent population. Okaloosa and Walton Counties are in the same indigent mental health care funding service area. Both Counties are responsible to provide a 25% match of the total amount of uninsured funding provided to our service area by the state. Our portion is calculated on the percent of the uninsured population we have as estimated by the US census bureau. That percentage is 72% and as a result the total costs of our portion of the match requirement for FY 2015 is $266,738.04. This agreement will provide that amount to Ft. Walton Beach Medical Center to help fund the Baker Act Inpatient Services and Crisis Stabilization Unit. OPTIONS: Approve or disapprove. RECOMMENDATIONS: Approve the agreement with Fort Walton Beach Medical Center. RECOMMENDED BY: APPROVED BY: Ernie Padgett, County Administrator