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Publication • 2008
Filed under: Private Contractors
Hampton County, SC, Health Services Agreement With SHP, 2008 HEALTH SERVICES AGREEMENT THIS AGREEMENT between the County of Hampton (hereinafter referred to collectively as "County"), and Southern Health Partners, Inc., a Delaware corporation, (hereinafter referred to as "SHP"), is entered into as of the ___ day of _ _ __ …
Publication • April 10, 2008
Virginia DOC Contract with Prison Health Services, 2008 ATTA.t;DMENT V Illustration Off-site Serri~es Medi~l (;are Pool Risk/Reward Sharing (;oJDpntations Calculation of Annual Pool aased on Actual Average Daily Population (ADP) X Total annual Off-Site Services Pool. annual cost per inmate = $ l;ontra~ted Fa~ility A) Greater than 17% Excess Cost: …
Privatized Medical Services Entangle Florida Sheriff in Litigation and Raises Costs by Proponents of privatization of prison services tout it as a way to not only save governmental entities money, but to remove them from legal entanglement. Officials in Florida?s Sarasota County Sheriff?s Office (SCSO) are not realizing those supposed …
Article • January 15, 2008
Nebraska Tort Law Notice Inapplicable to Medical Contractor by In partially reversing a Nebraska federal district court's grant of summary judgment, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has held the Nebraska State Tort Claims Act (NSTCA) does not apply to contracted medical service providers. That ruling came in the appeal …
Dallas, Texas, Jail Pays $950,000 for Neglecting Mentally Ill Prisoners by Michael Rigby On February 20, 2007, the Dallas County, Texas, Jail agreed to pay $950,000 for its negligent mistreatment of three mentally ill individuals, one of whom died, while imprisoned at the jail awaiting competency hearings. In 2004, James …
California Contract Healthcare Management Firm Locked Out; Fees Withheld; by John Dannenberg State Officials Resign by John E. Dannenberg California?s federal receiver over prison healthcare, Robert Sillen, took umbrage with Florida-based private contractor Medical Development International (MDI) by withholding $2.6 million in fees and locking MDI out of two southern …
Publication • September 1, 2007
Department of Economics, Prison Health Care Contracting Study, 2007 Prison Health Care: Is Contracting Out Healthy? Kelly Bedard Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara kelly@econ.ucsb.edu H.E. Frech III Department of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara frech@econ.ucsb.edu September 2007 Abstract U.S. Prison health care has recently been in …
Oklahoma: Attacked Employee's Psychological Treatment Claim Compensable by The Supreme Court of Oklahoma held that an employee of a contract health care provider who was stabbed by a prisoner had a compensable psychological injury claim. Sandra Shivel, an employee of Wexford Health Sources (WHS), was attacked and physically injured by …
Need for New Prosthesis is Serious Medical Need by A New Jersey federal district court held that the failure to provide a pretrial detainee with a prosthesis is deliberate indifference to a serious medical need. This action was filed by a pretrial detainee against officials at New Jersey's Cape May …
Texas Suicide Suit Alleging Medical Malpractice Settles For $288,130 by On June 23, 1993, a lawsuit arising from the suicide death of a prisoner in the Jefferson County (Texas) Detention Center settled for $288,130. The suit had alleged that STAT Care, the jail's contract medical provider, failed to properly screen …
Dismissal, Summary Judgment Against Prisoner's Medical Claims Affirmed by The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, held that a prisoner failed to prove that Washington prison officials were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical needs when they treated him with anti-psychotic …
PA Jail Immune from Suit in Medical Services Contract Case by Correctional Medical Care, Inc. (CMC) entered into a contract with MHM Services, Inc. (MHM) to jointly bid for a health care contract at a prison in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MHM later had secret meetings with the city of Philadelphia and …
IL DOC is Not a Joint Public Employer by The Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) farms out its prisoner-medical-services to subcontractors such as Wexford Health Sources, Inc. (Wexford). During an unfair labor practices case before the State Labor Relations Board (Board), the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees …
Delaware Medical Contractor's Policies Deliberately Indifferent by A Delaware Superior Court has denied a motion to dismiss a complaint alleging First Correctional Medical (FCM) was deliberately indifferent to the serious medical needs of prisoner Gregory D. Smith, causing his death. The suit alleged FCM's policies, procedures, and customs displayed a …
Contract Doctor Negligently Liable As Agent Of State DOC by State prisoner Joe Medley filed a medical negligence claim with the North Carolina Industrial Commission alleging that a doctor hired by the Department of Correction s(DOC), caused the amputation of his leg due to infection. The Commission granted summary judgment …
Article • May 15, 2007
Private Contractors Bound by State Consent Decree by A consent decree between Medicaid patients and the state is binding as a matter of due process upon HMO's who were agents of the state and contracted with it, where their contracts acknowledged that additional appeal process guidelines might be developed and …
Georgia Appeals Court Upholds $600,000 Judgment Against CMS by On July 5, 2001, the Court of Appeals of Georgia Upheld a trial court's $600,000 award to Stephanie Stitt, a former state prisoner, who suffered permanent nerve damage as a result of Correctional Medical Service's (CMS) egregiously inadequate treatment of her …
Court Denies Jail Staff Motion to Dismiss in Death Suit by The plaintiff sued over the decedent's death in jail. A nurse, a doctor, and a private medical provider moved for a more definitive (sic) statement, asserting that language in the complaint such as "inter alia" and "is not limited …
SICK ON THE INSIDE: Correctional HMOs and the Coming Prison Plague by By Wil S. Hylton When David Hannah walked into a small office on the second floor of the Moberly Correctional Facility in Moberly, Missouri, last fall, carrying his belly like a hundred-pound sack of sand, the staff knew …
Article • May 15, 2007
Delay in Providing Surgery to Florida Prisoner States a Claim by A prisoner survived defendants' motion for summary judgment after the court found a genuine issue of material fact might exist as to whether a delay in treatment demonstrated deliberate indifference to a serious medical need. Seven prisoners from the …
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