The overarching goal of the Whole Person Care (WPC) Pilots is the coordination of health, behavioral health, and social services in a patient-centered manner with the goals of improved beneficiary health and wellbeing through more efficient and effective use of resources. Awardees will receive support to integrate care for a particularly vulnerable group of Medi-Cal beneficiaries who have been identified as high users of multiple systems and continue to have poor health outcomes. WPC pilots must identify high-risk, high-utilizing Medi-Cal beneficiaries that reside in the geographic area they serve, and assess their unmet need.

DHCS will accept applications for WPC pilots from the designated lead entity, which must be a county, a
city and county, a health or hospital authority, a Designated Public Hospital, District/Municipal Public
Hospital, a consortium of any of the above entities serving a county or region consisting of more than
one county, or a federally-recognized tribe/tribal health program. The lead entity will be the single point
of contact for DHCS and is responsible for coordinating and monitoring the WPC pilot.

Applications must identify other entities that will participate in the WPC pilot including: at least one Medi-Cal managed care health plan; both the health services and speciality mental healthy agency or department, at least one other public agency; and at least two other WPC community partners.