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| How Florida lost its prison health care watchdog agency |
| By americanindependent.com |
| Published: 08/29/2011 |
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In January 2007, a woman was diagnosed with vulvar cancer while she was held in a Florida jail. The doctors had scheduled a follow-up evaluation, but she did not receive treatment before she was transfered to Broward Correctional Institution. That June, a cancer specialist recommended a consultation with a gynecological oncologist “ASAP,” according to a report by the Correctional Medical Authority. Months later, and after two additional orders for “emergency” consultations, the inmate still had not been treated. She finally received a biopsy the following January — one year after the original diagnosis — after missing appointments due to a “transportation error” and other delays. The patient’s case was one of several dramatic ones cited by the medical authority, or CMA, in its 2007 evaluation of health care services for inmates at Broward Correctional Institution. The report contained multiple emergency notifications for immediate action by the department, one which cited “medical conditions not being identified in a timely manner, unacceptable delays in evaluation, diagnosis and treatment, and lack of appropriate follow up,” for inmates with a variety of health problems, some of them life-threatening. Read More. |
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