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as California Forensic Medical Group. [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1.] A preliminary injunction issued in April 2015 was formalized four months later by the settlement agreement, imposing numerous requirements ...
Article • August 7, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
and the California Forensic Medical Group – the jail’s private medical provider, now part of a company called Wellpath. The suit alleged that a lack of medical care at the jail had caused Gillis&rsquo ...
unable to participate in programs offered to non-disabled prisoners in the general publication. Jewett also sued the jail’s private health care provider, the California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG ...
, accommodations for disabled prisoners and serious safety problems – were back in court in September 2017 to monitor compliance with the settlement agreement. California Forensics Medical Group (CFMG ...
Forensic Medical Group (CFMG), the state’s largest provider of correctional health services. [See: PLN, Feb. 2017, p.30]. The county’s new contract with CFMG requires the company to respond ...
its ties with Corizon Health, Inc., and awarded a contract for county jail medical services to California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG). The contract, worth $135 million over a three-year period ...
Tattoo Artist Dies in California Jail Detox Cell by Since the for-profit California Forensic Medical Group (CFMC) took over healthcare at the Santa Cruz County Jail last year, the medical ...
-conscious and pale. The nurse who found her was Elisa Pacheco, an employee of the California Forensic Medical Group, a private company that provides correctional medical services to rural counties like ...
jail system within a five-year period, a class-action lawsuit was filed in 2013 against both the jail and California Forensic Medical Group, alleging substandard intake procedures, medical care ...
the government as much as possible. This month’s cover story examines the California Forensic Medical Group, one of those small regional companies whose body count and track record of inadequate care ...
25 3 Atkinson-Baker Court Reporters www.depo.com 1 A P P E A R A N C E S 2 3 4 FOR THE DEFENDANT CALIFORNIA FORENSIC MEDICAL GROUP, INCORPORATED: (VIA TELEPHONE) 5 6 7 8 LAW OFFICES OF JEROME M ...
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 California Forensic Medical ...
with disabilities.” [See: PLN, June 2014, p.1]. The defendants, including the County of Monterey, Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG), filed motions to dismiss ...
and placed in foster care, and days before she committed suicide she was informed by a county social worker that she would lose custody of them permanently. The for-profit California Forensic Medical Group ...
contracted with the for-profit California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) to provide health care at the jail as a money-saving measure, but the grand jury panel found the company only partly to blame ...
, 1999, California Forensic Medical Group (CFMG) and two doctors agreed to pay a total of $725,000 to settle claims against them arising from a prisoner's death due to untreated tonsilitis. CFMG ...