Department: Public Health Services
Department Head/Elected Official: Barbie L. Robinson, MPP, JD, CHC, Executive Director
Regular or Supplemental RCA: Regular RCA
Type of Request: Contract - Award
Project ID (if applicable):
Vendor/Entity Legal Name (if applicable): Texas Children’s Health Plan, Inc.
MWDBE Participation (if applicable): N/A
Request Summary (Agenda Caption):
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Request for approval of a Data Usage Agreement (DUA), a Master Services Agreement (MSA), and a Statement of Work (SOW) between Harris County and Texas Children’s Health Plan, Inc. effective October 01, 2021 until October 31, 2022.
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Background and Discussion:
The Harris County Public Health Asthma Program is collaborating with the Texas Children Health Plan to provide asthma education and home assessment and modification services to Texas Children Health Plan members. This contract will enable the sharing of information about individuals suffering from asthma. Additionally, this will allow the asthma program to expand its programmatic outreach and ultimately fulfill its goals to provide services and improve the health of Harris County children and adolescents with moderate to severe asthma. This DUA will be renewable on an annual basis. Included in the DUA is $21,000 total expenditures allotted to provide home assessments and modifications supplies for 60 Texas Children Health Plan members over the course of 12 months.
Expected Impact:
The benefit of approving this contract with Texas Children Health Plan is to expand the services that the HCPH Asthma program provides to Harris county residents. The HCPH Asthma program seeks to equip children and adolescents in Harris County with the knowledge and skills to successfully manage their asthma, to reduce asthma triggers in the home, and to encourage physical activity to promote healthy living. With this contract, the program plans to provide asthma education and home assessment and modification services to Texas Children Health Plan members with moderate to severe asthma. Overall, this contract will allow for the asthma program to continue expanding its reach in providing services to asthmatics in Harris County.
Alternative Options:
Given that this contract will allow the Asthma Program to provide services to Texas Children Health Plan members with moderate to severe asthma, there would be a great deficit regarding the missed opportunity in being able to provide beneficial and preventative services to high-risk Harris County asthma residents if not approved. Additionally, the alternative would be to have Texas Children’s Health Plan administer these asthma services with their own finances, which would cause redundancies as these services are already being provided by the Harris County Public Health Asthma Program.
Alignment with Goal(s):
_ Justice and Safety
_ Economic Opportunity
_ Housing
X Public Health
_ Transportation
_ Flooding
X Environment
_ Governance and Customer Service
Prior Court Action (if any):
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Location:
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Precinct(s): Countywide
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Fiscal and Personnel Summary |
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Service Name |
Texas Asthma Control |
FY 21-22 |
Estimates |
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FY 22 |
Next 3 FYs |
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Incremental Expenditures |
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Labor Expenditures |
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47.81K |
143.43K |
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Non-Labor Expenditures |
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166.9K |
500.7K |
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Total Incremental Expenditures |
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214.71K |
644.13K |
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Funding Sources (General Fund, PIC Fund, Debt or CP, Grants, or Other - Please Specify) |
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Existing Budget |
Grant |
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214.71K |
644.13K |
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- |
- |
- |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
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Total Current Budget |
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214.71K |
644.13K |
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Additional Budget Requested |
- |
- |
- |
- |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
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Total Additional Budget Requested |
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- |
- |
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Total Funding Sources |
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214.71K |
644.13K |
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Personnel (Fill out section only if requesting new PCNs) |
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Current Position Count for Service |
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- |
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Additional Positions Requested |
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- |
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Total Personnel |
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Anticipated Implementation Date: October 01, 2021
Emergency/Disaster Recovery Note: Not an emergency, disaster, or COVID-19 related item
Contact(s) name, title, department: Gwen J. Sims, Deputy Director, Public Health Services
Attachments (if applicable): DUA, Services agreement, and Statement of Work