Department of Health Services

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The Utilization Review (UR) Committee is a subcommittee of the Sacramento County Quality Improvement Committee. This UR committee is comprised of representatives from Behavioral Health Services, Mental Health County and Contracted Providers and Division Advocate Liaisons representing clients, families and youth. The UR Committee is responsible for Sacramento County’s mental health quality improvement process and ensuring that the mental health plan is on track to reach quality benchmarks described in the Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI) Work Plan. This includes reviewing and planning for compliance to regulations and the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) Protocol items; following through with the DHCS triennial plan of correction; preparing for audits; discussing quality improvement trends found in audits; updating utilization review tools, internal utilization review minutes and documentation policies and procedures; discussing updates to documentation trainings; creating helpful quality improvement resource documents and overseeing the adequacy and appropriateness of chart documentation.