To: Board of Supervisors
From: Marla Stuart, Employment and Human Services Director
Report Title: Contract # 40-559-0 Empowered Aging for Long-Term Care Ombudsman services
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Employment and Human Services Director, or designee, to execute a contract with Empowered Aging in an amount not to exceed $531,438 to provide Long-Term Care Ombudsman services pursuant to the Older Americans Act for the period July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$531,438: 80% State (California Department of Aging), and 20% Federal (Older Americans Act) funds; all of which is budgeted in FY 24-25.
BACKGROUND:
Empowered Aging provides Long-Term Care Ombudsman services to seniors and disabled adults in Long Term Care facilities. Services include mediation and conciliation services in the resolution of inquiries and complaints from older, long-term care residents and patients, establishment of family councils for support of families of long-term care facility residents, and investigation of reports of physical abuse of all dependent adult and elder residents of long term care facilities. They also provide advocacy services and educational resources to empower residents, their families, and the aging community at large.
Empowered Aging was the selected respondent to Request for Information (RFI) #773, which closed in May 2024.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
Should the proposed action not be approved, seniors and disabled adults in Contra Costa County will not receive Long-Term Care Ombudsman services from Empowered Aging.
CHILDREN'S IMPACT STATEMENT:
This contract supports the fourth of Contra Costa County’s community outcomes of the Children’s Report Card, "Families that are Safe, Stable and Nurturing.”