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non-psychotropic medications.
He then went into the care of KCJ’s medical contractor, Conmed. It had a “bridge” policy that allowed continuation of psychotropic medications for 14 days
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Texas State Jails: Private Drug Counselors Ordered to Downplay Mental Illness by Matthew Clarke Former employees of Houston-based Turning Point, Inc., a private, for-profit company which contracted with Texas to provide substance abuse treatment in its state jail system, are revealing how supervisors pressured them to falsify Addiction Severity Index …
commissary list for prisoners to purchase. Whipple could not afford to buy the Prilosec he needed from the commissary, and accused TDOC officials and Corizon, a privateprison medical contractor, of deliberate
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Tenth Street
PO Box 1340
Colombus, GA 31901
Dear Ms. Sheftall:
Today, Correctional Healthcare Companies (CHC) has formally merged with CorrectCareSolutions, LLC (CCS).
Since its inception, CCS has
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hires, critical management positions such as the CorrectionalHealthServices Administrator II, Health Program Manager II, and Supervising Registered Nurse II
positions remain vacant.
• CHCF In-Service
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. A single-page demographic form is the only
requirement for CAQH participating providers.
Credentialing materials can be found in the Provider section of the Centurion website
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support for the $9.2 million in service
enhancements
negotiated
after
the
contractor’s proposal was accepted.
AUDIT RESULTS - SUMMARY
Under its contract with the Department,
PrisonHealthServices, Inc
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Plaintiff’s complaint under
28 U.S.C. § 1915A(a), and dismissed as defendants ADC Director Charles Ryan
and WexfordHealthServices, Inc. ER 108-110. Wexford was contracted with
ADC to provide prisoner health
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DWN and CCR v. ICE, NY, MOL in support of Plf Mot for PSJ, privatecontractor staffing and pricing, 2016
Case 1:14-cv-00583-LGS Document 96 Filed 01/19/16 Page 1 of 27
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
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the state's 2,000 prisoners, it also hired an independent third-party to keep tabs on the privatecontractor.
And yet, CorrectCareSolutions (CCS) has still committed gross negligence, medical malpractice
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Georgia: $453,000 Jury Verdict against Private Jail Medical Contractor by David Reutter Georgia: $453,000 Jury Verdict against Private Jail Medical Contractor by David Reutter A Georgia federal jury awarded $452,917.50 to a former detainee for injuries that resulted from inadequate medical care at the Hart County Jail. Monica Robinson was …
DWN and CCR v. ICE, NY, MOL in support of Def Cross-Mot for SJ, privatecontractor staffing and pricing, 2015
Case 1:14-cv-00583-LGS Document 87 Filed 12/22/15 Page 1 of 35
UNITED STATES DISTRICT
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in a rubber room without any food and only three drinks of water.
In May 2013, Murphy joined four other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monterey County, Sheriff Scott Miller and CaliforniaForensicMedical
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provisions are a good idea considering that NaphCare, a for-profit company, has the same business model as Corizon and thus the same financial incentives to skimp on staffing and medical care for prisoners
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deficit, over the past three-year period, out of total budget of $49.1 million. With respect to outside contractor CorrectCareSolutions (CCS), Hoffer noted that “cost monitoring was not robust
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and the
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It
How did Southern Health
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Partners begin ?
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A
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offshoot of PrisonHealthServices.
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niche market that I think some senior members of
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that company felt was underserved
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$425,000 Settlement in Suit over South Carolina Jail's Failure to Treat Diabetic Prisoner by Matthew Clarke $425,000 Settlement in Suit over South Carolina Jail's Failure to Treat Diabetic Prisoner by Matt Clarke In June 2013, Sumter County, South Carolina and Southern Health Partners, Inc. (SHP), the contract provider of health …
No Qualified Immunity for Private Doctor Working in Prison by No Qualified Immunity for Private Doctor Working in Prison On August 12, 2012, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that a private doctor under contract at a prison is not entitled to assert a defense …
New Mexico County Jail Pays $1.5 Million to Mentally Ill Prisoner by Derek Gilna New Mexico County Jail Pays $1.5 Million to Mentally Ill Prisoner by Derek Gilna In February 2014, Valencia County, New Mexico agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle a federal civil rights complaint alleging deliberate indifference …
with disabilities.” [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1].
The defendants, including the County of Monterey, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and CaliforniaForensicMedicalGroup (CFMG), filed motions to dismiss
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