LAKESHORE REGIONAL ENTITY OPERATING AGREEMENTLakeshore Regional Entity Operating Agreement • February 1st, 2023 • Michigan
The five Community Mental Health Services Programs (Members) have joined together to create a jointly governed Regional Entity operating as a Prepaid Inpatient Health Plan (PIHP) for the purpose of supporting and furthering the work of the Members in their roles as local providers of specialty mental health services in the counties served. Inherent in this action is the belief that the local Member is best suited to provide services well matched to the needs of the communities and citizens served. The Lakeshore Regional Entity (the “ENTITY”) is established for the purpose of meeting the regulatory and statutory requirements best handled at the PIHP level, and other services as agreed, while not encumbering, but enhancing, the effort of the Members as local service providers. In serving and representing the counties of Allegan, Kent, Lake, Mason, Muskegon, Oceana and Ottawa, the ENTITY is dedicated to ensuring that equality in voice and governance exists, and that the benefit to the per
