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Board approves MHSA innovation plan to join statewide SmartCare EHR; avoids reversion of $473,000
Summary
Yolo County supervisors approved staff’s recommendation to submit a Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) innovation plan that would opt into a CalMHSA‑led SmartCare electronic health record, preserving $473,000 that would otherwise revert and freeing MHSA funds for direct services.
On April 29 the Yolo County Board of Supervisors approved a staff recommendation to submit an MHSA innovation plan that would let the county join a CalMHSA (California Mental Health Services Authority) electronic health‑record initiative known as SmartCare. The board vote cleared the way to avoid conditional reversion of $473,000 and to capture a potential shift of existing MHSA administrative costs into capital/technology categories, which staff said could free roughly $1.2 million over two years for direct services.
Interim mental‑health director Tony Kildare told the board that the county’s current electronic health record and billing workflows have created delays…
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