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million contract with PrisonHealthServices (PHS) is illegal. Under New York law, profit-making corporate medical providers are required to be controlled by doctors. The reasoning is that business
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the responsibility. Im only trying to outline the problems here.
SFHS was hired in 2004 after the county severed ties with its former for-profit health care provider, PrisonHealthServices (PHS), after the company
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Avalon Correctional Services Delisted From NASDAQ
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On February 3, 2005, Avalon Correctional Services, Inc., announced that it had filed Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission
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was then taken to the Schenectady County Jail to be seen by a nurse employed at that facility by EMSA Correctional Care [later bought out by PrisonHealthServices (PHS)].
The nurse placed him on the medical tier
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governments have shown less patience, Prison Health has survived, and even grown, by buying rivals like CorrectionalHealthServices, of Verona, N.J. In 1999, its biggest purchase, EMSA Government Services
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with regard to the negligent hiring and vicarious liability claims and denied in all other respects. See: Adorno v. CorrectionalServicesCorp., 312 F.Supp.2d. 505 (S.D.N.Y. 2004).
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PHS Responsible For Deaths Of New York Prisoners
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by Michael Rigby
PrisonHealthServices (PHS) has killed another patient. According to a highly critical 10-page report released
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that the company, PrisonHealthServices Inc., did not meet standards on practices ranging from H.I.V. and diabetes therapy to the timely distribution of medication to adequately conducting mental health evaluations
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a lot of children who get caught up in the system because they were careless. I'm in that last category." He said this with a straight face despite being convicted of taking kickbacks from a private
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to November 1998. Rodriguez's complaint alleged he was beat by jail personnel and that EMSA Correctional Care denied him proper medical treatment for his injuries.
The defendants moved for summary judgment
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PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues
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by John E. Dannenberg
PrisonHealthServices (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc
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In 1999, CSC merged with YouthServicesInternational (YSI), a leading provider of developmental, educational, and rehabilitative programs for troubled juveniles. The YSI merger made CSC the country's
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in Malesko v. CorrectionalServicesCorp. [CSC], 229 F.3d 374 (2 nd Cir. 2000) [ PLN, July 2001, "PrivatePrison Corp. Can Be Sued In Bivens Action"], the high court declined to extend Bivens v. Six Unknown
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PrivatePrison Corporation Can Be Sued in Bivens Action: Supreme Court Grants Review
by John E Dannenberg
by John E. Dannenberg
Holding that a private corporation acting under color
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Prisoner Suing Prison Physician for Deliberate Indifference by A federal district court in New York denied summuary judgment to a prison physician being sued for medical neglect. The court held that a genuine issue of material fact was in dispute in that the physician may have acted with deliberate indifference …
claiming that jail officials, Westchester county and EMSA Limited Partnership, a for-profit business that provided the jail's medical care, had violated his Eighth Amendment right to adequate medical care
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Managed Care Infects PrisonHealthServices
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by Adrian Lomax
In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest
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