To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Amendment # 74-277-28 with Jackson & Coker Locumtenens, LLC
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract Amendment Agreement #74-277-28 with Jackson & Coker Locumtenens, LLC, a limited liability company, effective October 1, 2023, to amend Contract #74-277-26, to increase the payment limit by $435,000 from $1,438,336 to a new payment limit of $1,873,336, with no change in the original term of January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this amendment will result in additional annual expenditures of up to $435,000 and will be funded as budgeted by 100% Mental Health Realignment. (No rate increase)
BACKGROUND:
County’s Behavioral Health Services Division/ Mental Health has an obligation to provide psychiatric physician services to patients, including medication management and therapy services. Therefore, County contracts with temporary help firms to ensure patient care is provided during peak loads, temporary absences, vacations or emergency situations when full staffing is required. This contractor has been providing temporary psychiatric services since July 1, 2006. This Contract is entered into under and subject to the following legal authorities: California Government Code §§31000 and 31000.4. This contract includes services provided by represented classifications and the county has met its obligations with the respective labor partner(s).
On December 13, 2022, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #74-277-26 with Jackson & Coker Locumtenens, LLC, in the amount of $1,438,336 for the provision of temporary psychiatric medical physicians and recruitment services at County’s Mental Health Outpatient Clinics, for the period January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.
Approval of Contract Amendment Agreement #74-277-28 will allow the contractor to provide additional temporary psychiatric medical physician services and recruitment services through December 31, 2023.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this amendment is not approved, contractor will not be able to provide additional temporary psychiatric medical doctors and recruitment services for County’s Mental Health Outpatient Clinics.