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DC Behavioral Health says manual grant process slowed payments; electronic grants system planned for August
Summary
At a Feb. 5 performance oversight hearing, Department of Behavioral Health leaders described staffing shortages and manual workflows that have delayed grant payments and said they plan to implement an electronic grants-management system this summer, with go-live expected in August.
At-large Councilmember Christina Henderson, chair of the Committee on Health, pressed the DC Department of Behavioral Health on delays in grant administration and contractor payments at a Feb. 5 performance oversight hearing.
Dr. Barbara Bazaron, director of the Department of Behavioral Health, said the agency currently processes much of its grant work manually and is finalizing procurement of an electronic grants management system. “We expect to have it implemented or certainly operational for our purposes to start entering in and use it in August of this year,” Bazaron said.
The committee heard that DBH’s fiscal…
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