Presentation for Agreement with BayCare Behavioral Health, Inc.
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Approved to delegate authority to the County Administration to sign these and all future engagement letters under the agreement with CRI dated September 20, 2022.
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The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, Jan 28, 2025
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on the consent. This is just 28. Okay. We're gonna be pulling R 31 up ahead of R 30. So Who's running that one?
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Agenda items. That's me. My name is Tracy Kaylee. I'm the Director of Operations for Bay Care Behavioral Health. This is agenda meeting uh item. Kathy was gonna introduce me, but I think she stepped out. So do you want me to still go ahead and go? Great to see you again. Hi hi everybody. Um Thank you for inviting me here today to share how the county match funds are utilized to support those struggling with mental health and addiction issues in our county. I I did have a PowerPoint, but oh it's coming. All right, so um I'll just keep going. Um Baycare Behavioral Health is part of the Bay Care Health System.
We provide services in five counties in the Tampa Bay area. We employ over 1,500 team members and treat over 70,000 patients per year. We've been providing services specifically in Pasco County for over 50 years. Um our continuum of care within this county includes outpatient clinics, both mental health and addiction. Um It's coming, it looks like. Um We have specialized community prevention programs where we try and get upstream of the mental health and addiction issues in our county so we get, you know, in intervene younger, intervene in the communities, intervene in the schools.
We do a lot of uh collaborations with law enforcement, with the jails, with the schools, with the child welfare programs, because not any one of us can kind of do this work alone. We also have our own graduate medic medical education program. What that means is we um have our own residents, right, psychiatry residents. So we are training. Um the baby doctors, how we want them to be trained and really trying to teach them what we want them to know about addiction and mental health and hopefully they'll stay here once they're kind of graduated. So we're very proud of that. We are in our fourth year of that, so we're about to have our first graduating
class. We also do services um specific for veterans and housing and then we have two residential programs, one for children. This is the right side thanks. Um one for children and one for adults and addiction. Um next slide please. So the County Match specifically provides really a valuable safety net for high-risk Pasco residents who are either unfunded, meaning they don't have any insurance at all, or they're underinfund underinsured. So they have insurance, but it may not cover the needs that they have. We collaborate with and
have partnerships. We try and work together with all those in the community and really try to utilize those funds in the most for the ones that need it most, especially when it comes to needing crisis related services, which I'll go into detail on the next few slides. First is our integrated stabilization unit. Um, this is um 8002 King Healy Boulevard. This, for those of you that don't know, I think most of you do, this was the first of its kind in the state of Florida where we combined a detox, detoxification center, and a crisis stabilization unit. And I think
that's really important to say, so you have to say it again.
It's the first of its kind. That's right. That's right. So the first one in the state of Florida, and and we did this, we opened this in 2013. It's been wildly successful. thirty bed unit. Um so whether you're coming in for, you know, um overdose or alcohol related issues or um or more depression and feeling suicidal or, you know, at risk of hurting someone else, we don't have to discern which one it is 'cause a lot of times they very much overlap, right? So this is what this this um This level of service does. And so we stabilize them. You'll see on the slide the data. We
continue to treat, you know. Um, you know, 1400 or so a year, um, eighteen hundred, I'm sorry, my glasses on for twenty twenty-four, and that's both the crisis and the detox combined. What we're most proud of is our recidivism rate is sits at eleven percent. That is a very low recidivism rate when it comes to alcohol and drug um and mental health crisis response. Um next slide, please. Our mobile crisis response team is sort of the kind of the next level down from the the ISU, the Integrated Service Stabilization Unit. And
that is 24-7. You can call. Anyone in Pasco County can call, and we will respond, right? We will respond on site, to homes, to schools. Law enforcement will come with us when it's a situation where that's necessary. And try and divert the crisis. So we want to keep people out of that level of care I just talked about, keep them out of our ISU, right? Get them into like outpatient services, something that's less costly, more treatment versus just stabilization. And I am proud to say that, you know, in this past year, with all the you know over thousand calls that we
did get, we diverted eighty-seven percent of those calls, meaning eighty-seven percent of those calls that we received that we went out on to talk to people instead of Baker acting them, right, or Marchman acting them, or you know, um committing. them involuntarily, we were able to create a safety plan and keep them in the community and get them connected to services. That's huge. Like that's been a really big win for our community. And when it comes to county match dollars, you know, the numbers aren't reflected in these stats necessarily, but Um when the county calls, we're there to help, right? So if it's after after a hurricane
and there's some some need to, you know, call individuals who, you know, um might need may reach out to the county for support or if he just needs to go out on site, those are the kinds of things that we'll do and are available and have been, and so it's been a really good partnership. Next slide. Oh sorry. Okay. Once
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why. I just have just two more two more slides. Next next one. There you go. So this one is sort of um, you know, once someone's been, you know, um um got kind of in in a crisis sort of mode or they've been hospitalized or they've needed our mobile crisis team, we really want to get them linked to our outpatient services. They can see a psychiatrist, they can get their medicines that they need. Um we have a pharmacy on site. We have you know services east Pasco, West Pasco. We have a recover our recovery center in central Pasco. So we really try and make sure all the needs of our county are met.
And and so that's kind of the third level. And then the last slide, I'll just before I take any questions, I just wanted to share. This is kind of a It's kind of an ugly picture, but it is like the aerial view of our our West Pasco campus, so where we have our children's services and our adult services that I just described. But in green, that will be our behavioral health urgent care center. I just want to um remind everyone that that will be the first of its kind in the state of Florida, and it will be opening on Monday. And it was supported by funds from both CDBG and the opioid settlement fund. So we are very excited about it. We will have a I have talked to many of This,
but we'll have a ribbon-cutting sort of open house in the in the in the weeks to come, and we're trying to figure out the best date and time for that. But we hope you will all be there, and we're very excited about that. And I'm happy to answer any questions.
You know, um when um Tommy I can't remember his last name, the form.
Um he convened a meeting, I don't know, five ten five Six years ago. um with actually Polk, Pasco, Hernando, I mean Hillsborough and Pinellas. And I went down, the sheriff went down, all the sheriffs were there. Um some county commissioners and some business leaders and discuss about what what could we do about this opioid crisis and how how best to spend some of this money when it comes and how could we, you know, start going after this problem. And
If you saw at the tri county meeting
Um and sorry, a couple of you weren't there but or was it last week? I don't know. We every county stepped up to say what they had been how they had been spending their opioid money. Well the others were talking about how they're gonna spend it. And we're opening our center Monday. I mean
We put our money to work right away on cutting edge. Absolutely solutions. And I'm just so proud of what we're doing. I I'm gonna bring it to NACO to have them talk about it on a national scale because Um this you want to talk just a little bit more about this BH urgent care and there may be
questions too. And you're exactly right. So the the opioid settlement dollars, you know, so Bay Care is in five counties, so we are part of these conversations when it comes to opioid settlements and all the other counties as well. Um and you're absolutely right, Pasco County is really the only county that has really gotten the dollars out there. Hernando's done, but they has also, but they just don't have as much it wasn't much money. But um But really this is the only county where it's been innovative, there's been a process, we've gotten the dollars out the first year and really um you know the task force that's been created is a really great group of minds that, you know, really wants what's
best for our community and what's really gonna help individuals and I Um I think kind of the big bold idea with the behavioral health urgent care, which you know what that means is it's sort of that You know, I talked about our integrated stabilization units, like a locked unit where you go when you're at the deep end of crisis, right? And I talked about sort of outpatient services, which is more like routine care. You go once a week for therapy or once a month for medicine. This is sort of in between, right? You know, um maybe you think you might need to be hospitalized, but maybe you don't, right? Maybe you can walk and you can walk in. Like if you think about physical health, urgent care, you know, you may have a sinus infection,
you may think you need antibiotics because of a sinus infection, or you may May have a kid who has a needs an x-ray because maybe they sprained an arm. So you want to be able to get in quickly, you want to walk in, you want walk-in availability, you want to schedule an appointment if you don't have a lot of time. And so that we take we're taking that same concept and we're translating it to behavioral health services. So someone who is, you know, been struggling with depression just feels ready, right? Because sometimes that's what that's about. Like they're just ready to change, right? They're ready to say, okay, you know what? I'm gonna go talk to someone, I'm ready to talk to someone. be open in there for them to do that, you know, instead of going straight to an emergency room, right? Instead
of or
our jail.
Or a jail. That's right. Right. This c yeah, this is a diversion, right? So come there first and get really treatment, get services, you know, right away in real time versus kind of getting the taking a longer route to get to that same place. So we're very excited about it. Yeah. Same. So I see it
as a national model. Yes?
Yeah, uh Tracy, thank you very much for bringing this forward. I had uh asked for this presentation a little bit ago when I saw it was a state mandate and wanted to see what was going on. We met uh blown away by your phenomenal numbers. I mean, for three to five day care for people in super uh trouble, let's say, for you to get back with only eight, eleven percent recidivism is amazing. Um and hopefully we can work on other things that'll help you deal with that as well. Um And you were one of the largest recipients of money and I'm gl so glad to see that building which was just I won't
say shuttered in, but it was like a a storage area. And now to see it come to life to to to go is gonna be phenomenal. I hope you use our our uh landscaping money to offset some of that cost for you.
I gotta call you about that. Yeah.
I mean I need some help probably. But yeah, so yes, but absolutely that would be a good idea. Someone here can talk to you about that.
You know, I I wanna say for for the board as well, one of the things We also funded at the same time was a steps to recovery program for the veterans uh for long term stays. I mean I could say for a year or two, whatever it may be. They've been doing this for many, many years. Uh they recently came to me about their program, um and they were Trying to keep it moving so they get like site plans ready to go, et cetera. The one on Trouble Creek. Yeah. So we talked to them about raising it up. They're gonna work with our staff to get a site plan moved where they can actually take and keep the stuff in place. It might have to
vault some of the storage for stormwater, but to go up there they're gonna be able to double their units if we can allocate some money from the C D B G D R money coming up. So that'll be coming our way in a little bit. But I think for
For the people that need help for down the road. That's right. If they're veterans especially that can go. They'll if they don't fill up with the veterans, they'll even take other folks. That's
great.
So they could be a great partner with you coming up as well. But I want to thank you guys for coming in. You're doing a phenomenal job. Um the the results speak for themselves for what you're doing. Your your commitment is great. Um and again this facility is gonna be a great one to open up to the county. So thank you.