Sutter County’s Health and Welfare Committee is scheduled to consider recommending a proposed agreement with WellSpace Health for residential substance-use treatment for referred residents of Sutter and Yuba counties.
The agreement would authorize up to $240,000 for the period from Sept. 1, 2026, through June 30, 2027, according to the committee agenda packet. Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health would refer eligible residents for treatment at American Society of Addiction Medicine levels 3.1 and 3.5, as well as Level 3.2 residential withdrawal management. The agreement would also cover care coordination.
The county staff report says WellSpace operates two Sacramento-region facilities: the 48-bed Alternative House Residential Center and a 200-bed campus that opened in August 2026. The report says the provider is licensed and experienced and can provide services under Medi-Cal and Drug Medi-Cal standards. It does not state how many beds would be available to Sutter-Yuba referrals.
The proposed rates are $236.25 per day for Level 3.1 residential services, $288.75 per day for Level 3.5 services and $341.25 per day for Level 3.2 withdrawal management. Care coordination would be billed at $54 per 15 minutes, the draft agreement says.
The contract would require WellSpace to submit monthly caseload summaries showing the number of people served, referrals to other community agencies, average daily census and average length of stay. Sutter-Yuba Behavioral Health Quality Assurance staff could conduct quarterly program monitoring and audits, according to the agreement.
The public packet reviewed for the committee item does not identify a request for proposals, competing vendors or a sole-source justification. It also does not provide prior agreement amounts, actual payments, referral or placement counts, occupancy figures, outcomes or previous quality-assurance findings. Those omissions do not establish that the agreement was improperly selected or performed; they leave the procurement and historical-performance questions unresolved in the publicly available materials.
The item is a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors, and the packet does not document final board approval or executed signatures. The board’s subsequent action and any executed agreement would determine whether the proposal moves forward.
