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File #: RES 11-516    Version: 1 Name: Facility Committee Recommendations
Type: Resolution Status: Signed
File created: 8/18/2011 In control: County Clerk
On agenda: Final action: 10/7/2011
Title: A resolution endorsing a plan submitted by the Milwaukee County New Behavioral Health Facility Study Committee which states that the county’s inpatient model of providing mental health care is financially unsustainable and less cost effective than a community-based mental health system and urging county government to permanently and fundamentally shift its funding, staff, and programming into a community-based system of care and endorsing Milwaukee County’s continued operation of an inpatient hospital facility with a 120 maximum number of county provided inpatient beds as part of the county’s obligation to provide safety net services for persons with mental illness
Sponsors: Joe Sanfelippo, Lynne De Bruin, James Schmitt, Marina Dimitrijevic, Peggy West
Attachments: 1. RESOLUTION, 2. FISCAL NOTE, 3. FINAL REPORT, 4. ATTACHMENT 1, 5. ATTACHMENT 2, 6. ATTACHMENT 3, 7. ATTACHMENT 4, 8. AMENDMENT #1, 9. AMENDMENT #2, 10. AMENDMENT #3, 11. Audio NBHFC 09/09/11, 12. CB Amended Resolution, 13. CB Final Amended Resolution
Related files: 12-170, 12-235, 12-376
Title
A resolution endorsing a plan submitted by the Milwaukee County New Behavioral Health Facility Study Committee which states that the county's inpatient model of providing mental health care is financially unsustainable and less cost effective than a community-based mental health system and urging county government to permanently and fundamentally shift its funding, staff, and programming into a community-based system of care and endorsing Milwaukee County's continued operation of an inpatient hospital facility with a 120 maximum number of county provided inpatient beds as part of the county's obligation to provide safety net services for persons with mental illness