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| Op-Ed: Strong oversight can cure troubled health care |
| By Detroit Free Press |
| Published: 01/25/2008 |
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MICHIGAN - A just-released audit of Michigan's dysfunctional prison health care system might have missed plenty. Still, it's troubling enough to renew calls for the governor and Legislature to ensure independent oversight of Michigan's nearly $300-million prison health care system. Unfortunately, the auditors from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care failed to interview inmates -- the direct users of the system -- or experts who have reported problems to the federal court. Even so, the 131-page document exposed a range of problems, including staffing shortages, an inefficient and "achingly slow" electronics records system, underuse of telemedicine, a cumbersome bureaucracy, low productivity, and conflicts of interest in the use of psychologists for patient care as well as parole board evaluations. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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