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San Quentin emergency room opens
By The Associated Press
Published: 06/15/2007

SAN QUENTIN, CA - The federal receiver who controls medical services inside California's prisons opened a $1.6 million emergency room at San Quentin State Prison on Thursday, offering it as a model for the modernization he said is needed throughout the system.

The 24-hour "triage and treatment area" replaces one that receiver Robert Sillen said was deteriorating and dangerously inadequate.

"We can do construction and contracting in a way that the state can't do it and never could," Sillen said. Read more.

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