Common use of Collaboration with Community Agencies Clause in Contracts

Collaboration with Community Agencies. CMHSPs must work closely with local public and private community-based organizations and providers to address prevalent human conditions and issues that relate to a shared customer base. Such agencies and organizations include local health departments, local MDHHS human service offices, regional PIHP entity for substance abuse services, community and migrant health centers, nursing homes, Area Agency and Commissions on Aging, Medicaid Waiver agents for the HCBW program, school systems, and Michigan Rehabilitation Services. Local coordination and collaboration with these entities will make a wider range of essential supports and services available to the CMHSP's recipients. CMHSPs are encouraged to coordinate with these entities through participation in multipurpose human services collaborative bodies, and other similar community groups. The CMHSP shall have a written coordination agreement with each of the pertinent agencies noted above describing the coordination arrangements agreed to and how disputes between the agencies will be resolved when the other party is willing. To ensure that the services provided by these agencies are available to all CMHSPs, an individual contractor shall not require an exclusive contract as a condition of participation with the CMHSP. The CMHSP shall have a documented policy and set of procedures to assure that coordination regarding mutual recipients is occurring between the CMHSP and/or its provider network, and primary care physicians. This policy shall minimally address all recipients of CMHSP services for whom services or supports are expected to be provided for extended periods of time (e.g., people receiving case management or supports coordination) and/or those receiving psychotropic medications.

Collaboration with Community Agencies. CMHSPs must work closely with local public and private community-based organizations and providers to address prevalent human conditions and issues that relate to a shared customer base. Such agencies and organizations include local health departments, local MDHHS human service DHS offices, regional PIHP entity for substance abuse servicesSubstance Abuse Coordinating Agencies, community and migrant health centers, nursing homes, Area Agency and Commissions on Aging, Medicaid Waiver agents for the HCBW program, school systems, and Michigan Rehabilitation Services. Local coordination and collaboration with these entities will make a wider range of essential supports and services available to the CMHSP's recipients. CMHSPs are encouraged to coordinate with these entities through participation in multipurpose human services collaborative bodies, and other similar community groups. The CMHSP shall have a written coordination agreement with each of the pertinent agencies noted above describing the coordination arrangements agreed to and how disputes between the agencies will be resolved when the other party is willing. To ensure that the services provided by these agencies are available to all CMHSPs, an individual contractor shall not require an exclusive contract as a condition of participation with the CMHSP. The CMHSP shall have a documented policy and set of procedures to assure that coordination regarding mutual recipients is occurring between the CMHSP and/or its provider network, and primary care physicians. This policy shall minimally address all recipients of CMHSP services for whom services or supports are expected to be provided for extended periods of time (e.g., people receiving case management or supports coordination) and/or those receiving psychotropic medications.

Collaboration with Community Agencies. CMHSPs must work closely with local public and private community-based organizations and providers to address prevalent human conditions and issues that relate to a shared customer base. Such agencies and organizations include local health departments, local MDHHS human service DHS offices, regional PIHP entity for substance abuse servicesSubstance Abuse Coordinating Agencies, community and migrant health centers, nursing homes, Area Agency and Commissions on Aging, Medicaid Waiver agents for the HCBW program, school systems, and Michigan Rehabilitation Services. Local coordination and collaboration with these entities will make a wider range of essential supports and services available to the CMHSP's recipients. CMHSPs are encouraged to coordinate with these entities through participation in multipurpose human services collaborative bodies, and other similar community groups. The CMHSP shall have a written coordination agreement with each of the pertinent agencies noted above describing the coordination arrangements agreed to and how disputes between the agencies will be resolved when the other party is willingresolved. To ensure that the services provided by these agencies are available to all CMHSPs, an individual contractor shall not require an exclusive contract as a condition of participation with the CMHSP. The CMHSP shall have a documented policy and set of procedures to assure that coordination regarding mutual recipients is occurring between the CMHSP and/or its provider network, and primary care physicians. This policy shall minimally address all recipients of CMHSP services for whom services or supports are expected to be provided for extended periods of time (e.g., people receiving case management or supports coordination) and/or those receiving psychotropic medications.