Wayne County approves Amendment 5 to SEMHA contract to reallocate funds and add juvenile clinical staff

Wayne County commissioners approved Amendment 5 to a five-year professional services contract with the Southeastern Michigan Health Association (SEMHA) to reallocate money among existing health programs while keeping the contract’s total value and term unchanged.

The amendment moves $124,000 into a Juvenile and Youth Services (JYS) program cost center to add a clinical staff position and reduces the juvenile detention facility clinical line by the same amount. Separately, a grant line that originated as COVID-related contact tracing funding — broadened to support infectious disease surveillance and response — was shifted in accounting after a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Hamtramck took its own contract with SEMHA; the county’s paperwork shows roughly $1.4 million moved between FQHC and infectious-disease lines as a result of that change. Dr. Avni Sheth, chief medical…