To: Charles Winfrey, Human Services Committee Chairperson
From: Michelle Estell, RS, MSA, Administrative Health Officer
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RE: Approval of a request by Genesee County's Health Department to amend the Professional Services Contract with Go Beyond - Well Family System EMR for an additional one-year period from August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026
recommendation
BOARD ACTION REQUESTED:
Approval to amend the Professional Services Contract with Go Beyond - Well Family System for an additional one-year period from August 1, 2025, through July 31, 2026. Data management Services will be paid through funding Account- 2211-607.01-801.000, Funding Source Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA).
BACKGROUND:
Health Start is an infant mortality reduction program that uses a multidisciplinary approach to provide home visiting services to families in the Genesee County community. This project receives large amounts of data that will be inputted into the Well Family System EMR database. Through the Well Family System, Go Beyond will provide essential services to this project not only by hosting the database for Healthy Start client information, but also completing all data management needs required by federal funder HRSA.
DISCUSSION:
This request is to amend the Professional Services contract with Go Beyond - Well Family System for an additional one-year period. Go Beyond will provide essential needs for the project including data cleaning and data reporting to federal funder HRSA. The cost of the Well Family System EMR by Go Beyond is $10,450.00 per year. No county appropriation is needed.
IMPACT ON HUMAN RESOURCES:
There is no expected impact on Human Resources.
IMPACT ON BUDGET:
All 2024 Healthy Start grantees received funding from federal funder HRSA carryout infant mortality services and data management related to the project.
IMPACT ON FACILITIES:
There is no expected impact on facilities.
IMPACT ON TECHNOLOGY:
IT has done an initial review to determine if all components of this system is compliant with Genesee County standards. This system is web-based and will not require application downloads of any kind.
CONFORMITY TO COUNTY PRIORITIES:
Genesee County Healthy Start continues to support a Healthy, Livable, and Safe Community through the utilization of community resources. Home visiting services provided through the Healthy Start Initiative are shown to decrease maternal and infant mortality, therefore contributing to full term pregnancies and healthy infants.
resolution
TO THE HONORABLE CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS OF THE GENESEE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, GENESEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
BE IT RESOLVED, by this Board of County Commissioners of Genesee County, Michigan, that the request by the Administrative Health Officer to authorize amending a contract between Genesee County and Go Beyond, LLC, said amendment being necessary to extend the contract for one additional year commencing August 1, 2025, though July 31, 2026, at a total cost not to exceed $10,450.00 to be paid from account 2211-607.01-801.000 with no county appropriation required, is approved (a copy of the memorandum request and supporting documents being on file with the official records of the July 16, 2025 meeting of the Human Services Committee of this Board), and the Chairperson of this Board is authorized to execute the amendment on behalf of Genesee County.