Correctional Healthcare
Correctional Healthcare is critical to prison and jail management, ensuring inmates receive necessary medical, dental, and mental health services. This section provides articles that explore the challenges, best practices, and innovations in delivering Correctional Healthcare. Topics include managing chronic illnesses, addressing mental health needs, and navigating legal and ethical considerations in inmate care. Understanding Correctional Healthcare is essential for professionals committed to providing quality care in a correctional setting. For further reading, explore related topics on COVID and its impact on rehabilitation and facility management.
Elderly inmates pose some special challenges in corrections, including safety issues as well as the physical and mental problems associated with age
YesCare has successfully serviced Kentucky for more than 30 years; adds medical and behavioral healthcare service contract with Louisville Metro Department of Corrections increasing its scope in Bluegrass State
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Since the state shuttered its only mental health hospital in 2006, it appears that most patients have landed in the criminal justice system instead of receiving promised help
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The inmate attempted to stop a 700-pound door from closing with her hand
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Fire was confined to the medical director’s office, but smoke filled the first floor of the medical wing and administrative offices
Plans to sue the city and Corizon, the private medical firm hired by the city to provide medical care to inmates
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Inmate Ramon C. Estrada died April 5 after two dialysis technicians switched shifts and nobody showed up for his appointment
Officials believe the cause may be a medical condition, did not find any injuries
Suit alleges jail staff didn’t give him prescribed medications or ointment on a skin graft site while he was in jail custody
Defendants in civil lawsuit ask for jury trial
Corizon Health Inc.'s contract, which is set to expire Dec. 31, won’t be renewed
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Four inmates who contracted Valley fever while housed at prisons across the region are suing state officials
Former Clark County jail nurse charged with 12 felonies related to illegally obtaining prescription drugs as a jail official has continued to provide health services at the county’s juvenile detention center
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Robin Yanda, 25, was arrested on seven counts of smuggling contraband into a detention facility
Inmates claim they were denied access because of “deliberate indifference to their serious medical needs”
The grant will pay for the administration of naltrexone, commonly known as Vivitrol
There’s a lot of overlap between prison and jail medicine, but here are a few (generalized) differences between the two
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County is considering bringing health care in house
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The role and authority of a safety officer is to observe and intervene when they see unacceptable risk to the patient or caregivers
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Inmates came down with some type of gastrointestinal illness
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