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HomeMy WebLinkAboutGrant Related - BOCC (003)`4 1�0 Washington State Department of Commerce ICOVID-19 Emergency Housing Program Plan County: Grant County Date:4/13/2020 The purpose of the grant funding is to address the COVID-19 outbreak related public health needs of people experiencing homelessness or otherwise in need of quarantine or isolation housing due to the outbreak. Grantees can complete this Plan template or transfer the information from the four sections into a narrative document. 1. Brief description of how the Grantee is consulting with and coordinating the use of funds with following entities: The county government (if the Grantee is not the county government) Largest city in the county The City of Moses Lake is the largest city within Grant County Consolidated Homeless Grant County is the Consolidated Homeless Grant grantee Grant grantee Local public health Grant County Health District jurisdiction 2. Name and contact information of local public health officer that reviewed this Plan: Theresa Adkinson, Phone: 509-766-7960 ext. 24, tadkinson@granthealth.org Commented [TG1]: --Total Funding: $388,642 --Over 70 cases in Grant County, currently --Commerce knows that the plan will likely change as activities get going. Just have to provide best guess and have entities on board to provide their specific service. ---Chelan County has offered to share contract language, if needed, for vendors as well as how they overcame challenges to motels being contracted. 3. Brief description of how the Grantee will use funds to develop the following: Create isolation and Due to many of our homeless residents living in remote locations in quarantine and Isolation Grant County, it has been recommended by the Dept. of Health beds: describe actions to (DOH) that Grant County begin planning for an alternate care site address quarantine and at a larger location that is in close in proximity to a large hospital isolation housing needs of (such as the local fairgrounds) This would allow for safer medical people living unsheltered care of people experiencing homelessness who are symptomatic with the goal of transporting the mildly sick to a lower level of care or in homeless housing or instead of the critically ill to a hospital. who cannot isolate or quarantine themselves in We are also working to provide a robust plan to provide 2-3 meals housing previously per day, assisted by our local school districts. Additionally, available to them. healthcare personnel will be contracted with traveling nurses to be on-site 24/7 in order to increase healthcare capacity for testing and treatment for those in quarantine/isolation who are showing active symptoms. Increase sanitation and Grant County Health district will work with motel and alternative hygiene in existing care facility staff to train on CDC cleaning and hygiene guidelines. homeless housing and Motels will have the ability to submit for reimbursement should encampments. they need to buy special cleaning supplies. Additional PPE supply chains are currently being identified and will be purchased/donated and placed in hygiene kits in all motel rooms to include sanitizer, , and other necessary supplies). Create additional shelter capacity to replace shelter We are working with the City of Moses Lake to execute contracts capacity lost when social with motels in 5 areas (covering both rural North and South distancing was increased. County) to quarantine the homeless that are not showing symptoms of COVI D-19 and will be sheltered in these areas for two weeks, with the potential to be moved to another site at the City of Moses Lake's discretion. These motels will keep 2-3 beds open, depending on the need, for the foreseeable future and are located in: ,Royal City, Mattawa, Ephrata, Quincy, and Moses Lake. This arrangement would not require healthcare monitoring, like the alternate care site, but will require security on-site to ensure those staying at motels are abiding by the Stay Home, Stay Healthy order. Other costs associated with addressing the public Grant County will need to hire and provide security staff to motel health needs of people sites . Additional costs may be staff time for overseeing motel experiencing security and operations as well as cleaning supplies, laundry homelessness or displaced services, and hygiene supplies that go beyond the scope of this from their former housing initial plan. due to the COVID-19 Personnel costs for an increased cadre of nursing staff to be sited outbreak. at the alternate care facility will likely be substantial and have yet to be estimated at this time. While not paid through this funding, we anticipate there will be unintended costs to our coordinated housing entry system, as Commented [TG2]: True? Anything else I can add? Commented [TG3]: Based on my notes from the meeting. True? more homeless are identified for case management services (e.g permanent housing). We are currently working to engage housing agencies and sites to more quickly coordinate services for those in quarantine/isolation to ensure their safety continues following quarantine. 4. Process defined to determine unmet need for Isolation and Quarantine beds: Steps and timeline of the How are we estimating the need., process the Grantee will (Grant County has instituted a Unified Command (UC) structure, implement to work with which includes the Grant County Health District Administrator and the local public health Medical Director, service providers, city administrators, and county jurisdiction and other officials. relevant stakeholders to Community leaders are also working with us to meet the needs of estimate the unmet need our homeless population and help us to understand where for quarantine and isolated resources are low. All parties have been connected, either via UC or housing for people living planning meetings to discuss response needs and gaps on a daily or unsheltered or living in weekly basis, depending on their,roles. homeless housing or who cannot isolate or quarantine themselves in housing previously available to them. 5. Completed estimate of the unmet need [count of needed beds] for quarantine and isolataton housing for people living unsheltered or living in homeless housing or who cannot isolate or quarantine themselves in housing previously available to them. Assumptions used in the How are we estimating the need., estimate, estimate can be • 5 motels at 3 beds ea =15 possible beds used per day reproduced with provided • zo% of PIT count? assumptions. TOTAL need for # of beds What is the total beds estimated? Commented [TG4]: Anyone else to add? Clarifications? I don't know much about Unified Command structure so please let me know what changes I need to make. Commented [TGS]: What else is happening with stakeholder groups to estimate and meet the expected need? Meetings? Other efforts OF is involved in? Commented [TG6]: Commented [TG7]: I can calculate once we have the answer to the prevous question.