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| Prisons to divide health contracts into parts |
| By delawareonline.com |
| Published: 11/19/2009 |
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Details on how the state will divide its inmate health-care contract -- which has been under federal scrutiny for three years -- were released Wednesday by the Department of Correction. Rather than having a single health care provider, prison officials are breaking the contract into 10 smaller agreements focusing on specific services. The change comes a month after Corrections Commissioner Carl C. Danberg announced he was ending a contract next year with St. Louis-based Correction Medical Services (CMS), which has been criticized for providing inadequate health care despite being paid more than $130 million over three years. "We expect this flexibility, and the increased competition it is expected to provide, will foster improved medical care and cost savings," Danberg said. "The Department spent significant time exploring alternative solutions to the way we contract for medical services. We believe this alternative will allow for large and small service providers to bid on the areas that fall within their specialization." Delaware entered an agreement with the federal government to improve prison health care in 2006 following stories by The News Journal that uncovered problems and high inmate death rates, especially from AIDS and suicides. The 2005 series of stories also pointed to poor medical treatment for cancer, meningitis, hepatitis and other communicable diseases and bacterial infections. Read More. |
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