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AMENDMENTS TO CONE HEALTH SERVICES AGREEMENT AND LEASE FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER
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SPONSOR
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Victor Isler, Assistant County Manager
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BACKGROUND
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Guilford County has an existing services agreement and lease with Cone Health for operation of the County's Behavioral Health Center (BHC) on Third Street in Greensboro. County and Cone staff have identified some points in the current agreement and lease that, if amended, will help improve operations of and client experience at the BHC and across the broader behavioral health system in the County. The existing lease and service agreement were approved in October 2019 for a five (5) year term beginning when the center began operations in June 2021; the current term will accordingly end in June 2026. Staff recommend addressing these changes as amendments instead of a new contract at this time due to the pending transition of the County's LME/MCO and the pending Behavioral Health strategic planning work being done by CCR.
The recommended changes to the lease are:
- Snow Removal: Cone will be responsible for conducting or arranging for snow removal at the facility on a 24 hour basis and the County will reimburse Cone for the associated cost. Currently, the County conducts snow removal directly but it does not have the capacity to maintain a 24 hour operation at the facility.
- Security Staffing: Clarifying language around the definitions of "internal" security, provided by Cone and reimbursed by the County, and "external security", provided by County Security Department staff. In addition, adding a specific requirement that Cone's and the County's security officers are expected to assist one another upon the request of the other party's officers.
The recommended changes to the service agreement are:
- Consistency between Service Agreement and Lease: Certain language such as provision of security officers for the facility is repeated in the two documents or the service ag...
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