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Neither Fines Nor Lawsuits Deter Corizon From Delivering Substandard Health Care

Article • March 3, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medical

Neither Fines Nor Lawsuits Deter Corizon From Delivering Substandard Health Care by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke In 2018, Corizon Health was the largest for-profit provider of prisoner ...

New Mexico: Third-Party Settlement Agreements Resulting from Medical Care Provided by Corizon are Public Documents Subject to Disclosure

Article • January 8, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medical

New Mexico: Third-Party Settlement Agreements Resulting from Medical Care Provided by Corizon are Public Documents Subject to Disclosure by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney The New Mexico ...

$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract

Article • December 1, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Private Contractors, Failure to Treat

$40,000 Settlement for Corizon’s Breach of Contract by Corizon Health paid $40,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it beached a contract with Nursefinders. The February 26, 2016, settlement ...

Jones v. Kent County, et al., MI, complaint, wrongful death, 2019

Brief • January 14, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Failure to Train/Supervise, Fourteenth Amendment, rights, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights

, DEPUTIES JOHN DOES 1 – 5, CORIZON HEALTH, INC., a Delaware Corporation, CORIZON HEALTH, d/b/a CORIZON OF MICHIGAN, TERI BYRNE, R.N., “NURSE JANICE”, JOANNE SHERWOOD, N.P., MELISSA FURNACE, R.N., DEBORAH CARD ...

$60,000 Settlement in Lawsuit Alleging Corizon Failed to Provide Prisoner Surgeries

Article • October 5, 2020

Filed under: Pain, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment

$60,000 Settlement in Lawsuit Alleging Corizon Failed to Provide Prisoner Surgeries by Corizon agreed to a $60,000 settlement reached in a lawsuit alleging it failed to provide a Florida ...

$21,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Violations of Family Medical Leave Act and Pregnancy Discrimination Act

Article • October 27, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Family

$21,000 Settlement in Suit Alleging Violations of Family Medical Leave Act and Pregnancy Discrimination Act by Corizon Health, Inc., agreed to pay $21,000 to settle a federal lawsuit ...

$50,000 Settlement with Corizon in Failure to Treat Suit in Florida

Article • October 4, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Medication, Pain, Failure to Treat, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Americans with Disabilities Act, Rehabilitation Act

$50,000 Settlement with Corizon in Failure to Treat Suit in Florida by Corizon Health agreed to pay $50,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it failed to provide a Florida prisoner ...

$350,000 Settlement in Florida Detainee’s Suicide

Article • October 4, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Failure to Protect (General), Failure to Treat (Mental Illness), Suicides

$350,000 Settlement in Florida Detainee’s Suicide by Corizon Health agreed to pay $350,000 in a lawsuit that alleged it failed to provide mental health care to a pretrial detainee who ...

Undiagnosed MRSA Forced Arizona Prisoner to Have Heart Surgery

Article • January 9, 2020 • from PLN January, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medical, Cardiovascular

medical provider Corizon, had been wrong – leaving Collingwood with a heavy price to pay. He was also misdiagnosed by Corizon staff with Valley Fever and tuberculosis before going to the hospital ...

$47,000 Settlement in Detainee’s Overdose Death Claim

Article • October 4, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Medication, Drug Overdose, Wrongful Death

$47,000 Settlement in Detainee’s Overdose Death Claim by Corizon Health agreed to pay $47,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging it negligently failed to assure street drugs did not enter its Jail ...

$50,000 Settlement for Failure to Treat Hernias

Article • October 5, 2020

Filed under: Pain, Hernias, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment

$50,000 Settlement for Failure to Treat Hernias by Corizon Health agreed to pay $50,000 in a lawsuit alleging it deprived a prisoner of medically necessary surgery to correct his hernias ...

$70,000 Settlement in Private Firm’s Failure to Treat Arizona Prisoner’s Broken Wrist

Article • November 1, 2020 • from PLN November, 2020

Filed under: Corizon, Failure to Treat, Settlements

$70,000 Settlement in Private Firm’s Failure to Treat Arizona Prisoner’s Broken Wrist by David Reutter by David M. Reutter Corizon Health, Inc. agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a civil rights ...

Postawko v. Missouri Department of Corrections, Motion for Preliminary Injuction, Medical Neglect of Hepatitis C, 2019

Brief • August 15, 2020

Filed under: Medical Misconduct, Hepatitis, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Nat'l Commission on Correctional Health Care

200 St. Louis, MO 63101 5 6 MR. JUSTIN D. SMITH Missouri Attorney General's Office P.O. Box 899 Jefferson City, MO 65102 7 8 9 10 11 12 For Defendant Corizon, LLC: MR. WILLIAM R. LUNSFORD MR ...

Campbell v. Corizon Health Incorporated, AZ, Order, Denial of Medical Care, 2020

Brief • September 25, 2020

Filed under: Failure to Treat

Campbell v. Corizon Health Incorporated, AZ, Order, Denial of Medical Care, 2020 Case 4:18-cv-00146-JAS Document 65 Filed 09/25/20 Page 1 of 18 1 SH 2 3 4 5 6 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT ...

Report Decries Ongoing Inadequate Medical Care for Pregnant Arizona Prisoners

Article • March 4, 2020 • from PLN March, 2020

Filed under: Medical

’s health care provider, Nashville-based Corizon Health, the nation’s second-largest private prison contractor with at least $1 billion in annual revenue. In their letters the attorneys ...

$2,500 Settlement for Failure to Treat Broken Arm and Shoulder Injury

Article • October 5, 2020

Filed under: Pain, Skeletal Injury, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment

$2,500 Settlement for Failure to Treat Broken Arm and Shoulder Injury by Corizon Health agreed to pay $2,500 to a prisoner for failing to treat his broken arm. The complaint alleged other ...

Powers v. Alvarado, AZ, Settlement, Medical Negligence, 2020

Brief • August 11, 2020

Filed under: Systemic Medical Neglect, Amputations, Failure to Protect (General)

("Plaintiff' or "Releasor") an Corizon Health, Inc.(hereinafter known as "Releasee"). Neither this Agreement nor the specific payments set forth in Paragraph 4, shall be construed as an adm ssion of liability ...

Members of Congress Investigate Private Equity Firms that Own Companies Providing Prison Services

Article • February 4, 2020 • from PLN February, 2020

Filed under: Private Prisons, Private Contractors

care to prisoners, Corizon Health, Inc. and Wellpath, are owned by private equity firms. Together they provide medical services to hundreds of thousands of prisoners in 36 states. Wellpath had annual ...

1.25 Million Corizon Settlement in Mentally Ill Michigan Prisoner’s Dehydration Death

Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020

Filed under: Failure to Treat, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Failure to Treat (Mental Illness)

1.25 Million Corizon Settlement in Mentally Ill Michigan Prisoner’s Dehydration Death by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The Michigan Department of Corrections and its medical vendor ...

Audit: Privatizing Florida’s Prison Health Care Was Costly and Deadly Mistake

Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020

Filed under: Wexford Health Services, Corizon, Contractor Misconduct, Commentary/Reviews, Private Contractors, Medical Neglect/Malpractice

and to Corizon for $1.1 billion to service Regions 1-3. “While both contracts achieved required savings levels (and in fact surpassed the seven percent savings requirement), the vendors in many cases ...