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Joint resolution accepting the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County, Illinois, grant and authorizing an emergency appropriation in the amount of $75,000 for fiscal year (FY) 2017 for costs of ServicePoint.
Staff Summary
* The Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County awarded a grant of $75,000 for the period November 21, 2016, through November 20, 2017, with possible annual renewals for up to a total of three years.
* The grant funds will be used to create an electronic referral network to be used by Lake County health and human service organizations. The web-based software to be utilized for this purpose, called ServicePoint, is already in use at a number of area non-profits but its referral features remain, for the most part, inactive. This grant will support bringing new and existing organizations online to a ServicePoint-facilitated referral network that will provide more meaningful and timely referrals between providers, provide agencies with a record of referral activity on the clients served and ultimately result in improved outcomes for the residents who access Lake County's human services system.
* Key ServicePoint referral partners include the Lake County Health Department, Erie Family Health Center, Nicasa, and members of the Alliance for Human Services.
* This ServicePoint grant funding in FY2017 will include $25,000 for a consultant who will provide expert analysis regarding the privacy concerns related to the network; $5,000 for a second consultant who will provide ServicePoint configuration support; $34,000 for salaries; and $11,000 for training, mileage and dues/subscriptions.
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RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, Lake County Community Development has been approved for a $75,000 grant from the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Lake County to implement a ServicePoint-facilitated electronic referral network to be used by Lake County health and human service organizations; and
WHEREAS, the Strategic Plan of the Lake County Board i...
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