Title:
Title
Approvals for Implementation of Pathways to Health + Home Program
End
FileID
File ID: 2018-04197
Location
Location: Citywide
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Pass a Resolution authorizing the City Manager or City Manager's designee to: 1) execute the attached Data Sharing Agreement (DSA) with the County of Sacramento, Department of Health Services (DHS) and; 2) increase revenue and expenditure budgets by $2,206,918 in the Whole Person Care Program (I02000900) in the Operating Grants Fund (Fund 2702) to account for the City's receipt of Program Year 4 operating costs from the California Department Health Care Services.
Contact: Anira Khlok, Homeless Services Program Analyst, (916) 808-7948, Office of the City Manager
Body
Presenter: None.
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-County of Sacramento DHS Data Sharing Agreement
3-Resolution
4-Exhibit A to the Resolution-Data Sharing Agreement with County of Sacramento, Department of Health Care Services
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: In June 2017, the City of Sacramento was accepted into the State Department of Health Care Services' (DHCS) Whole Person Care (WPC) program, with a budget of approximately $64 million over a four-year term, inclusive of local funding re-aligned to support WPC and new matching dollars, to support development of the WPC program model and to fund new services. WPC is a statewide Medi-Cal waiver program that allows communities to create a system of supportive services aimed to improve health outcomes and reduce utilization of high-cost services for vulnerable populations. In Sacramento, the WPC program is called the Pathways to Health + Home (Pathways) program and will support broader City strategies to reduce and prevent homelessness, by creating a robust system of outreach, case management and supportive services for those frequent users of health care, homeless services, and emergency services.
Pathways operates over the course of four "program years"...
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