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medical provider, PrisonHealthServices, has been the subject of numerous previous reports in PLN. [See, e.g.: PLN, Nov. 2006, p.1].
On September 4, 2006, three days after reporting to jail to serve a 26
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(positive) were errantly entered into his medical records by NJDOC?s medical contractor, St. Louis-based Correctional Medical Services (CMS), as ?negative.? When he tried to see his lab results, J.D.A
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units of the antibiotic Rifampin to give to all 146 potentially exposed prisoners and 27 staff at the jail. Healthcare at the Gwinnett facility is contracted through PrisonHealthServices.
Another
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for prisoners
to demand it. Although a CMS spokesman insisted that CMS doctors are
privatecontractors and that "it is the individual physician's
responsibility to make sure care is given to patients
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CMS Liable as State Actor For Denying HCV Care in NJ
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The plaintiff complained about his medical care, reciting a long and
tortured history of his treatment and non-treatment for Hepatitis
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Services (CMS) and Prime Care Medical (PCM) alleging
that the denial of proper medical treatment by defendants violated his
Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Wall sought, among other things,
$250,000
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$450,000 Award Against CMS, County In Death of Illinois Jail Prisoner
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On May 16, 2002, a jury found Correctional Medical Services (CMS) of
Illinois and Kane County liable for the death
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PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues
by John Dannenberg
by John E. Dannenberg
PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service
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on his left knee; a laceration on his forehead; and other injuries. Cook remained hospitalized for two months.
Cook sued the MDOC, numerous guards, and CMS medical personnel under 42 U.S.C. § 1983
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definitions of what constitutes largest, the company with the most market share is constantly changing. At any given time either CMS or its rival PrisonHealthServices (PHS) will be the largest" privateprison
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Jersey and Michigan contract their state prison medical program to for-profit Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS), based in St. Louis, Missouri. The tension of this arrangement is obvious: states
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of the prisons in July 2001 after refusing to pay for increased operating costsbut the problems persist.
Medical Care
Medical care at the prisons, which is provided by Correctional Medical Services (CMS
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Prisons Nationwide Fail to Treat HCV Epidemic by John E Dannenberg Prisons Nationwide Fail To Treat HCV Epidemic by John E. Dannenberg The JeopardyTM answer is: "The national average treatment rate for HCV-infected prisoners." The winning question is: "What is approximately 1%?" With HCV [Hepatitis-C] infection rates in state prisons …
Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV Retreatment for Florida Prisoner by John E Dannenberg Permanent Injunction Requires Full HCV Retreatment for Florida Prisoner by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (S.D. Fla.) is-sued a permanent injunction on July 24, 2003 ordering James Crosby, the Secretary of the Florida Department of …
at the St. Clair Correctional Facility against the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC) and Naphcare, a for-profit company that contracts with Alabama to provide medical services to its prisoners. (See
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Family Awarded $229,000 Against CMS in Illinois Hepatitis C Jail Death
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A jury has awarded the family of a prisoner who died while in the Kane County Illinois Jail $229,500. On May 16
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prison system and its contract medical care provider, Correctional Medical Services (CMS), to properly diagnose and treat HCV infected prisoners. The Inquirer reported that its investigation revealed
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hepatitis C. He sued NDDCR and its health care provider, MedcenterOne, under 42 U.S.C. §1983 and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. §12101, alleging that NDDCR and MedcenterOne completely
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of St. Louis, WexfordHealthServices of Pittsburgh, and PrisonHealthServices of Brentwood, Tennessee.
The South Carolina Experience
From 1986 to 2000, the SCDC contracted a portion of its
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of organization makes resource and cost control increasingly difficult. [See cover story.]
In an independent investigation, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel documented a variety of questionable prison health
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