The former site of the Lathrop Outlet Mall will soon house the San Joaquin County Public Health, Whole Person Care, and Neighborhood Preservation offices.
The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors today will act on a 5-year lease starting this April to lease 12,354 square feet in the Lathrop Business Park on Harlan Road. The location is southeast of the Interstate 5 and Louise Avenue interchange.
The first year’s lease will cost $212,735.
The move will allow the consolidation of three divisions within the county’s Public Health Services Department plus allow for expansion.
The county’s current lease at 2223 Grand Canal Blvd. in Stockton is expiring. The location lacks room to expand. That is a critical consideration since 40 more staff members will be added this spring due to epidemiology and laboratory capacity expansion.
The health department also needs to absorb the 11-member staff of the Neighborhood Preservation division that was transferred from Community Development to Health Care Services. The space they were housed in at the Community Development Department at 1810 East Hazelton in Stockton is needed for expansion.
The 10-member staff of Whole Person Care now operating of Benton Hall at the San Joaquin General Hospital will also be moved to the Lathrop location.
The San Joaquin County Neighborhood Preservation Division administers the county's U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Grant programs and other state and federal grant programs. In the administration of these programs, the Neighborhood Preservation Division also operates housing rehabilitation and homeownership programs.
The Neighborhood Preservation Division was established to provide the organization, vision, and means by which citizens have access to programs to improve their standard of living, which includes the preservation and increased vitality of neighborhoods.
Whole Person Care (WPC) is a pilot program within Medi-Cal 2020, California’s Section 1115 Medicaid Waiver. WPC is designed to improve the health of high-risk, high-utilizing patients through the coordinated delivery of physical health, behavioral health, housing support, food stability, and other critical community services.
San Joaquin County’s WPC program targets the needs of three potentially overlapping populations.
*Medi-Cal beneficiaries assigned to the County clinic system who are high-utilizers of emergency services.
*Adult Medi-Cal beneficiaries with a mental health and/or substance use disorder.
*Adult Medi-Cal beneficiaries who are at risk of homelessness upon discharge from WPC-participating medical facilities or the county jail.
Fifteen partner health care and social service organizations are participating in San Joaquin County.
