COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO - File #: 22-595

• File #: 22-595
• Version: 1
• Type: Health and Human Services
• Status: Agenda Ready
• File created: 9/19/2022
• In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
• On agenda: 9/27/2022
• Title: RECEIVE AN UPDATE ON ADVANCING THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONTINUUM OF CARE, AUTHORIZE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE EAST REGION CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT, AND RECEIVE THE OPTIMAL CARE PATHWAYS MODEL (DISTRICTS: ALL)

Date	Action By	Action	Result
9/27/2022	BOARD OF SUPERVISORS	adopted	Pass

DATE:
September 27, 2022
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TO:
Board of Supervisors

SUBJECT
Title
RECEIVE AN UPDATE ON ADVANCING THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CONTINUUM OF CARE, AUTHORIZE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE EAST REGION CRISIS STABILIZATION UNIT, AND RECEIVE THE OPTIMAL CARE PATHWAYS MODEL (DISTRICTS: ALL)

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OVERVIEW
Under the leadership of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors (Board), behavioral health care in San Diego County is in the midst of a profound transformation. The County of San Diego (County) is taking action and making strategic investments to move the local behavioral health care delivery system from a model of care driven by crises to one centered on continuous, coordinated care and prevention. These efforts, broadly referred to as the Behavioral Health Continuum of Care (Continuum of Care), are guided by data, focused on equity, and designed to engender collaborative work across silos, within and outside of government.

Today's update outlines the progress that the County Health and Human Services Agency, Behavioral Health Services (BHS) continues to make to advance work across the Continuum of Care in Crisis Diversionary, Behavioral Health Hub and Long-Term Care strategic domains. These have been established as key categories for work that is enabling the transformative vision toward continuous care and have provided a general framework for shifting proportional investments. BHS has not modeled or specified the scale at which different service categories are needed in order to make care best for San Diego County residents. While there has been much attention placed on the numbers of psychiatric inpatient beds needed across the county, BHS remains committed to setting quantitative service level goals and plans to approach the task with the broadest perspective, reflecting the entire Continuum of Care.

In order to accomplish this, BHS developed the Behavioral Health Continuum of Care Optimal Care Pathways (OCP) model, a data-informed algorithm that q...