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Article • October 15, 2007 • from PLN October, 2007
Filed under: CMS, Medical, Diabetes, Amputations
Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner’s Loss of Foot by Matthew Clarke Wyoming and CMS Settle Suit Over Diabetic Prisoner's Loss of Foot by Matthew T. Clarke In June 2006, CMS ...
$1.6 Million Settlements by PHS and Hillsborough County in Death of Baby Born in Florida Jail by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Inadequate medical care by Prison Health Services (PHS) has ...
(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 ...
healthcare, Robert Sillen, took umbrage with Florida-based private contractor Medical Development International (MDI) by withholding $2.6 million in fees and locking MDI out of two southern California prisons ...
Moore v. NM Dept of Corrections, NM, Complaint, Wrongful Death - Excessive Force, 2007 0 STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF TORRANCE SEVENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE DISTRICT COURT D-0722- CV - 2007 - 1 9 8 FARRlS P. MOORE, HELENE. MOORE, Individually and as Personal Representatives of the Estate …
Publication • September 1, 2007
. Introduction There has been a large increase in contracting out for health care in U.S. prisons. As of 2004, 32 states contract for some or all prison health services (LaFaive 2006). Despite the massive shift ...
]. Armor's Chief Executive Officer, Doyle H. Moore, had founded Prison Health Services (PHS) in 1978. According to a 2005 New York Times article, "Prison Health proved adept at integrating itself with local ...
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 Prison Health Services. Another ...
Littles v. CCA, TN, Complaint, transport dental injury, 2007 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0071 CCA-AF (6/2/14 PRA) 0072
and mental health treatment, which is provided under contract with Correctional Medical Services (CMS). DOJ?s investigation found ?inadequate sick call systems in place, which directly interferes ...
deaths and injuries caused by the inept care provided by Correctional Medical Services (CMS) and its previous medical contractor, First Correctional Medical. Taylor's testimony comes in one of many ...
, Ohio arrestee who was severely beaten by police and negligently treated by Prison Health Services? (PHS) contract jail medical staff resulted in a settlement totaling $450,000. African-American Booker ...
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
was pregnant. Correctional Health Services (CHS), the jail's contract medical provider, confirmed the pregnancy but declined Doe's immediate and repeated request to be transported to a hospital for an elective ...
Michigan Prisons: Another CMS Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Another state prison system that subjected itself to the experiment ...
to dehydration. [See related article in this issue of PLN, Michigan Prisons: Another Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care]. To remedy its medical treatment deficiencies, MDOC proposed a two-phase study ...
in the provision of mental health care. [See related article in this issue of PLN, Michigan Prisons: Another Failure in Privatized Prisoner Health Care]. The first two sentences of the Court's order, written by U.S ...
Oklahoma: Attacked Employee's Psychological Treatment Claim Compensable by The Supreme Court of Oklahoma held that an employee of a contract health care provider who was stabbed by a prisoner had a compensable psychological injury claim. Sandra Shivel, an employee of Wexford Health Sources (WHS), was attacked and physically injured by …
to a serious medical need. This action was filed by a pretrial detainee against officials at New Jersey's Cape May County Jail and employees of Correctional Health Services (CHS). The detainee, a dual amputee ...
EMSA Not Liable for Ohio Prisoner's Restraint-Related Injury by In this case involving an Ohio prisoner whose fingers required amputation due to allegedly improperly applied restraints ...
Article • May 15, 2007
to the dental unit, run by Prison Health Services (PHS), on several occasions and filed grievances with the result of inadequate delayed treatment causing the loss of two teeth. In late 1996, Williamson ...
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