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incarcerated. During booking at the Camden County Correctional Facility (CCCF), Natale was seen by employees of Prison Health Services (PHS), a private company providing health care services at CCCF. Natale ...
contract with Prison Health Services (PHS), a private vendor which supplies its own doctors and nurses. Late in 2002 PHS decided to "opt out of their contract" because they were not making enough money ...
PHS Redux: Sued In A Dozen States, Contract Losses, Stock Plummets, Business Continues by by John E. Dannenberg Prison Health Services (PHS), a subsidiary of America Service Group, Inc ...
exhaustive hearing could be conducted." At that later hearing the sole witness for the government was David Thompson, a regional manager for Prison Health Services, Inc., which has a contract with the State ...
department violated Shaw's rights by killing him. A jury agreed and awarded Dowdy $377,500 in damages. $187,500 in damages was awarded against Davidson County; $187,500 was awarded against Prison Health ...
by the county for being understaffed. CMS is the nation's largest private "correctional health services" corporation [See: "Dying for Profits," PLN, Dec. 2000]. EMSA is a subsidiary of Nashville ...
Prison Health Services Refuses to Pay by The U.S. court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a forum selection clause in an indemnity agreement between the Sheriff of Polk Co ...
Trial Required in ADA Suit over HIV Medication by In the July, 1999, issue of PLN we reported McNally v. Prison Health Services, 28 F. Supp.2d 671 (D ME 1999) in which the court denied ...
and on a strict regimen of medication. The jail had contracted with Prison Health Services, Inc., (PHS) to provide medical care to jail prisoners. McNally told the PHS physician of his medical needs and McNally's ...
, especially for female prisoners, which extended past the point in 1992 when the sheriff contracted with Prison Health Services (PHS) to provide health care services at the jail. The monitor noted that the most ...
when he developed a psychological condition called "conversion reaction" that made him unable to walk. The jail contracted with a private company, Prison Health Services (PHS), to provide medical care ...
Managed Care Infects Prison Health Services by by Adrian Lomax In September, 1996, Melody Bird complained to guards at Florida's Pinellas County Jail that she was experiencing severe chest ...
days later as a result of his injuries. Loretta Cherry, Cherry's wife, filed suit against jail officials and Prison Health Services (PHS), a Delaware corporation which was contracted to provide medical ...
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