DEPARTMENT: Health
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Colleen M. Bridger, MPH, PhD
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: Citywide
SUBJECT:
Authorizing an Agreement with Parent/Child Incorporated
SUMMARY:
This Ordinance authorizes an agreement with Parent/Child Incorporated (PCI) for the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District (Metro Health) to provide oral health services for infants and children enrolled in Early Head Start programs for a term ending September 30, 2019 with the option to renew for one additional one-year term.
The agreement with PCI from October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019 allows Metro Health to provide oral health assessments and preventive dental care for children enrolled in PCI's Early Head Start and Early Head Start Expansion and Childcare Partnership programs for a budgeted amount up to $12,000.00. Metro Health will not seek reimbursement for these services. Metro Health will provide the agency with documentation of the in-kind value of dental care provided through this initiative.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Early Head Start program is a federally-funded program that provides child care, education, child development, nutrition and social services, health and disability assessment and parent involvement, on a full-time basis. These programs are designed to serve children ages 0 to 3 years whose parents' income meets Administration for Child, Youth and Families Guidelines. Families utilizing the programs and services do not have the financial resources to obtain such health evaluation services through the private medical community. Screenings are required by federal guidelines for such day care and child development service programs and assessments are necessary to ensure that the children evaluated are channeled into an appropriate health care resource to resolve any health complications found in the assessment.
Metro Health's Oral Health program is currently contracted to provide dental services for 4,852 children enrolled in...
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