Explanation
Background
This ordinance will authorize the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into various contracts to provide PASSPORT home care and assisted living services for older adults in Central Ohio for the second year of a two-year period beginning July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016.
There are 363 PASSPORT and assisted living agencies that provide services to older adults in accordance to the Ohio Department of Aging contracting requirements (see attachment).
PASSPORT (Pre-Admission Screening System Providing Options and Resources Today) is a Medicaid-funded program that provides home care services as an alternative to nursing home admission and currently serves 5,500 individuals.
EMERGENCY DESIGNATION:
Emergency action is requested in order to meet the conditions of the grant so that providers can be paid within 30 days of providing service, and so that services can continue beyond June 30, 2015.
This ordinance is contingent on passage of ordinance 1441-2015.
FISCAL IMPACT:
$35,000,000.00 is required from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund to enter into contracts.
Title
To authorize and direct the Director of Recreation and Parks to enter into various contracts for the provision of Pre-Admission Screening System Providing Options and Resources Today (PASSPORT) home care and assisted living services for older adults in Central Ohio; to authorize the expenditure of $35,000,000.00 from the Recreation and Parks Grant Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($35,000,000.00)
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WHEREAS, the funds to enter into said contracts have been made available from the Ohio Department of Aging; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Recreation and Parks Department in that it is immediately necessary to enter into said contracts so there is no interruption of Medicaid-funded services for PASSPORT and assisted living clients, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; NOW, THEREFORE
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