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Oregon Workgroup Recommends Strategies to Deal with Prison Medical Care Costs
Loaded on Aug. 28, 2015
by Mark Wilson
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2015, page 36
Filed under:
HIV/AIDS,
Cardiovascular,
Respiratory,
Medical Records,
Medical Expenses,
Diabetes,
Hepatitis.
Location:
Oregon.
Oregon Workgroup Recommends Strategies to Deal with Prison Medical Care Costs
by Mark Wilson
State officials in Oregon continue to grapple with the rising cost of prisoner health care, which largely stems from a rapidly-expanding population of elderly prisoners who have costly physical and mental health care needs.
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