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has a medical care contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and a pharmaceutical company for delivery of prescription medicines, who receives a “fixed per prisoner per month rate plus the cost
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indifference to his serious medical needs while he was incarcerated at the Lee County Jail. The jury found that the jail’s for-profit medical provider, PrisonHealthServices (PHS), was solely liable.
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Ellis et al v. CCA, IN, Complaint, nurses sued based on poor conditions and inadequate treatment, 2011 STATE OF INDIANA COUNTY OF MARION ) ) SS: ) MARION COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT CAUSE NO. HARRIETT ELLIS, TIA MARTIN, ) DELORES McNEIL, ANONI ELMORE, ) PATRICIA FORREST, and SHAVON JONES, ) ) …
Medical Services (CMS) were short-listed as finalists. Conmed, a publicly-traded company with operations in seven states, had won an $18 million contract for health care services at the jail in Chesapeake
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Wexford Enters Into Confidential Settlement in New Mexico Prisoner’s Death
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
Pennsylvania-based WexfordHealthServices, which bills itself
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Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), various CMS personnel and Quality Plan Administrators, Inc. (QPA), a CMS subcontractor responsible for providing dental care to state prisoners. Sullivan alleged
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$943,000 Settlement for Family of Man Who Died in Courtroom by The family of a man who died in 2001 from an asthma attack has settled a 42 U.S.C. §1983 suit for $943,000. Robert L. Waters, Jr. collapsed in the well of D.C. Superior Court Judge Tim Murphy’s courtroom on …
Judge Denies Attorney’s Fees to Prevailing Defendant by U.S. Magistrate Judge John A. Gorman has denied a request for attorney’s fees and sanctions against a plaintiff who brought an unsuccessful civil rights action. Defendant Advanced Correctional Healthcare Inc. had argued that it was entitled to attorney’s fees because the plaintiff’s …
Summary Judgment for Illinois Jail Nurse Reversed in Wrongful Death Suit by Brandon Sample The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of a nurse at Illinois’ Peoria County Jail (PCJ) who was accused of providing deliberately indifferent medical care to …
PrisonHealthServices Doctors Caught in Scandals
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In a two-week period in July 2010, two doctors employed by PrisonHealthServices (PHS) were involved in scandals that led one to resign
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California: State May Be Liable for Delaying Medical Care to Prisoner’s Infant Child by The California Court of Appeal has held that the State may be vicariously liable for the acts or omissions of its employees in failing to provide needed medical care for an infant living with its mother …
” and slurred his speech, signs of intoxication.
The LPN was an employee of PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a privateprison medical care contractor. PHS policy required that a physician be contacted
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Revised Statute §537.080
(2009).
8. Defendant CORRECTIONAL MEDICAL SERVICES (hereinafter “CMS”) is a private
Missouri corporation with its principal place of business in St. Louis County, Missouri.
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Wexford Pays $300,000 in Illinois Prisoner’s Death
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WexfordHealthServices paid $300,000 last year to settle a lawsuit regarding the wrongful death of an Illinois prisoner who died
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Failure of CMS Nurses and Doctor to Properly Treat Broken Leg Overcomes Summary Judgment
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The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the grant of summary judgment to a doctor and two
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$3.125 Million in Settlements in Oregon Prisoner’s Beating Death by On July 2, 2009, the estate and family of a mentally ill Oregon man who died in police custody settled claims against Multnomah County, a former deputy sheriff and jail nurses for $925,000. The case remained pending against the City …
, after entering default judgment against FirstCorrectionalMedical, Inc. (FCM). In other Delaware news, the state’s prison system did not renew its contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS
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of a controlled sub-stance.
Routine medical intake by the jail’s private healthcare provider, CermakHealthServices (Cermak), revealed only that Smith had elevated blood pressure, for which he received a week’s
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CMS Nurse Denied Summary Judgment for Failure to Treat Prisoner for Heat Illness;$400,000 Settlement Following Sixth Circuit Ruling
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
In February 2009
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Virginia Sheriff’s Office, PHS Settle Wrongful Death Suit for $1.6 Million
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PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a private for-profit company that provides medical care to prisoners, has agreed
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