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| Inmate health: The county jail needs affordable, quality care |
| By post-gazette.com |
| Published: 11/09/2012 |
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PA - After a dozen years of providing health care at the county jail, Allegheny Correctional Health Services will have to get in line to bid for the next contract when the current one expires on Dec. 31. That's a good thing. Although the fate of the 100-plus employees of ACHS, a nonprofit offshoot of the county health department, is on the line, bigger things are at stake for Allegheny County taxpayers -- cost efficiency and service quality at the lockup that houses 2,500 inmates. Last year the county paid $11.6 million to ACHS to deliver medical services. Not only was that 2-1/2 times the $4.6 million it cost in 2000, the agency's first year of operation, ACHS' standard of care has also come under fire in recent years. Read More. |
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