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Clallam County commissioners direct staff to explore shared health-services model linking jail, juvenile and public-health
Summary
Commissioners asked staff to develop a plan to explore consolidating medical and behavioral-health services across corrections, juvenile services and health departments, and to use the county's TrueStar billing entity where feasible to capture Medicaid reimbursement.
Clallam County commissioners on Jan. 27 asked staff to develop an implementation plan to explore sharing health-related services across the adult jail, the juvenile facility and Health & Human Services.
County staff described staffing shortages and budget risks that motivated the review. "We could consolidate services under one umbrella to share between the juvenile facility and adult corrections," a staff speaker said, noting the county is short several nurses and juvenile services will soon lose its last nurse.
Why it matters: commissioners and staff framed the change as a potential efficiency and resilience measure tied to the county's Medicaid transformation work and to TrueStar, a county-recognized behavioral-health billing entity. Staff said TrueStar already has…
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