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Publication • February 1, 2021
Wexford Health Sources, Inc., Medical Guidelines – Region: Jails, 2021 Medical Guidelines Region: Jails Wexford Health Sources, Inc. 501 Holiday Drive Sulte300 Pittsburgh, PA 15220 Phone: 412-937-8590 Medical Guidelines Region: Jails Corporate Authorization This Medical Guidelines has been reviewed and approved by the following individual(s): Chief Medical Officer, Wexford Health …
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leading health-care contractors — Corizon, Wellpath Holdings Inc., NaphCare, PrimeCare Medical Inc. and Armor Correctional Health Services Inc. — death rates ran anywhere from 18% to 58% higher ...
Brief • December 29, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Jager v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, 2020 Centurion 003046 RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE IN FULL AND SETTLEMENT ...
Brief • December 15, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Folsom v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Amended Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 001818 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 12/15/2020 ...
Brief • December 14, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Varela v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 003234 RELEASE lN FU LL AND SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THIS RELEASE [N ...
Rivas v. Jennings, CA, Order, COVID Negligence, 2020 Case 3:20-cv-02731-VC Document 867 Filed 12/03/20 Page 1 of 26 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ANGEL DE JESUS ZEPEDA RIVAS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. DAVID JENNINGS, et al., Case No. 20-cv-02731-VC ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR SECOND PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Re: …
Article • December 1, 2020
$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract by Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders. The February 26, 2016, settlement ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
by sheriff’s deputies and a jail nurse, Michelle Heughins, an employee of the jail’s for-profit health-care provider, Wellpath, formerly known as Correct Care Solutions. Over the next 45 minutes ...
Article • December 1, 2020 • from PLN December, 2020
. Suspecting infection, the nurse spoke to Dr. Vipin Shah, who worked for the prison’s medical contractor, Wexford Health Services, Inc. Shah prescribed penicillin by mouth twice a day for five days ...
Whistleblower Claims Female Detainees at Privately Run Georgia ICE Facility Had Forced Hysterectomies by Dale Chappell by Dale Chappell A whistleblower at a privately operated federal detention center in Georgia prompted a joint complaint filed in September 2020 with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of …
Brief • November 25, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Aranzola v. Centurion Correctional Healthcare of New Mexico, LLC, et al., NM, Complaint, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 001721 FILED 1st JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Santa Fe County 11/25/2020 12:37 ...
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Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
$70,000 Settlement in Private Firm’s Failure to Treat Arizona Prisoner’s Broken Wrist by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Corizon Health, Inc. agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a civil rights ...
Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020
Filed under: Private Prisons, COVID-19
Two-Thirds of Nevada Prisoners Confined in Arizona Private Prison Test Positive for COVID-19 by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson "We said since day one, prisons, especially private prisons shielded ...
Article • October 27, 2020
Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Family
$21,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Violations of Family Medical Leave Act and Pregnancy Discrimination Act by Corizon Health, Inc., agreed to pay $21,000 to settle a federal lawsuit ...
Suarez v. GEO Group, NM, Settlement, Failure to Protect, 2020 SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND GENERAL RELEASE This SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE ("Agreement") is enteted into by Osvaldo Suatez, DOB 02/15/1983, SSN 429 .. 53~4354 ("Plaintiff' or "Releasor") and The GEO Group; Inc,, (hereinafter "GEO" or "Releasee" or "Defendant"). ''GEO," "Releasee" and …
Brief • October 21, 2020
Filed under: Centurion, Malpractice
Suarez v. The Geo Group, Inc., et al., NM, Settlement Agreement, Medical Malpractice, 2020 Centurion 003207 1u,:1.1 '.ASt1: IN H ll.1 1 ANI> Sft:'l''l'Ll•:Ml•~NT AGIU~EM 11:N'l' 1 TIIIS 1i 111,1 ...
Article • October 5, 2020
PrimeCare, Berks County Prisoner Who Loses Leg Agree to $850,000 Settlement by PrimeCare Medical agreed to an $850,000 settlement in a civil rights action alleging it failed to provide care ...
$350,000 Settlement in Florida Detainee’s Suicide by Corizon Health agreed to pay $350,000 in a lawsuit that alleged it failed to provide mental health care to a pretrial detainee who ...
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