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More Unsealed PrimeCare Settlements Total $1.2 Million for Pennsylvania Jail Deaths
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Privately owned prison and jail healthcare provider PrimeCareMedical has managed to keep details
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Sixth West Virginia Jailer Found Guilty After Detainee Death, Estate Dismisses Claims Against PrimeCareMedical Employees
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A former West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation
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with graduations to a quarter share for those held 3-45 days. The settlement did not resolve Class claims against WexfordHealthServices and PrimeCareMedical of West Virginia, as well as the Commissions of seven
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County Booking Center (DCBC), PrimeCareMedical, in a suit accusing them of failing to treat a detainee who died in custody of a fatal fentanyl overdose. However, the Court affirmed denial of a claim
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’ family has filed suit in the Court accusing jail healthcare contractor PrimeCareMedical of negligently causing his death with inadequate treatment after his assault. The family is represented
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, Wellpath Holdings, PrimeCareMedical and ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices, as well as Corizon Health, which has now been split between new prison healthcare contractor YesCare and Tehum Care Services
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Unsealed Settlement Reveals PrimeCareMedical Paid $337,500 After Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Suicide
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
On July 12, 2023, the U.S. District Court
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OF THE SUMMERS COUNTY COMMISSION,
The WYOMING COUNTY COMMISSION, JOHN/JANE DOE
EMPLOYEES OF THE WYOMING COUNTY COMMISSION,
PRIMECAREMEDICAL OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC.,
JOHN/JANE"DOE PRIMECARE EMPLOYEES,
WEXFORD
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as healthcare contractors PrimeCareMedical of West Virginia and PSIMed.
McDonald was diagnosed as suicidal and suffering from seizures upon intake as a pretrial detainee on August 20, 2017. She also exhibited
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’s Bucks County Correctional Facility (BCCF), the county has agreed to pay a total of $959,000. Its privately contracted jail healthcare provider, PrimeCareMedical, reportedly agreed to pay another
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As a condition of the monetary settlement, Clark relinquished any and all claims against defendants, including Chester County and its prison health care contractor, PrimeCareMedical, Inc. See: Clark v. Feliciano
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:rectional Officer Steven
Jones, Correctional Officer Andrew Fe~ther, Co11·ectional Officer Victor Wallace,
Nurse Ashley Harringto~; Nurse Practitioner Martha Champlin, Warden D. Edward
McFadden, PrimeCare
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PrimeCare, Berks County Prisoner Who Loses Leg Agree to $850,000 Settlement
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PrimeCareMedical agreed to an $850,000 settlement in a civil rights action alleging it failed to provide care
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PrimeCareMedical Pays Bulk of $252,000 Settlement in Pennsylvania Jail Detainee’s Suicide
by David Reutter
by David M. Reutter
A $252,000 settlement was reached in October 2019 in a lawsuit
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refused to give the families of Tommie Lee Jones and Daniel Pantera the satisfaction of terminating the county jail’s contract with for-profit healthcare provider ArmorCorrectionalHealthServices
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for privatecontractorPrimeCareMedical, Inc. at the time of his termination.
On January 12, 2015, Von Kiel pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, five counts of failure to file
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Jail Called to Scrutinize Detox Procedure in Wake of Increased Deaths by David Reutter The second death in six months of a pre-trial detainee at Pennsylvania’s Buck County prison has raised questions about its detox procedures. The scrutiny of such procedures should be a focal point for jail administrators throughout …
to natural causes.
DiNino’s family filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county and its private health care provider, PrimeCareMedical, in April 2015. The suit alleged that jail and medical staff
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County, the county prison board and warden Eugene Berdanier, as well as the prison’s private healthcare provider, PrimeCareMedical, nine medical assistants and nurses, three unidentified prison
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PrimeCare Contract With Montgomery County Correctional Facility 1-8-2012 To1-7-2015
HEALTH SERVICES AGREEMENT
BY AND BETWEEN
MONTGOMERY COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
AND
PRIMECAREMEDICAL, INC. (PCM
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