To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #22-780-23 with John Muir Health, Inc. (dba Community Health Improvement)
☒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 #22-780-23, containing mutual indemnification, with John Muir Health, Inc. (dba Community Health Improvement), a non-profit corporation, in an amount not to exceed $3,000, to provide county’s use of a mobile van to provide healthcare services to low-income families and individuals in Central, East and West Contra Costa County for the period from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024.
FISCAL IMPACT:
Approval of this contract will result in budgeted annual expenditures of up to $3,000 and is funded 100% by Federal Healthcare for the Homeless Grant funds.
BACKGROUND:
The Public Health Department has been contracting with John Muir Health, Inc. (dba Community Health Improvement), since August 2000 to provide a mobile van to provide healthcare services to low-income families and individuals in Central, East and West Contra Costa County. This contract was approved by Health Services Personnel to ensure there is no conflict with labor relations.
On January 17, 2023, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #22-780-22 with John Muir Health, Inc. (dba Community Health Improvement), in an amount not to exceed $3,000, for county’s use of a mobile van to provide healthcare services to low-income families and individuals in Central, East and West Contra Costa County, for the period from January 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.
Approval of Contract #22-780-23 will allow the contractor to continue providing services through December 31, 2024. This contract includes mutual indemnification to hold harmless both parties for any claims arising out of the performance of this contract.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this contract is not approved, many low-income families and disadvantaged individuals in Contra Costa County will not receive much needed mobile health services.