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| Interviews beginning as health care is privatized at state prisons |
| By gainesville.com - Cindy Swirka |
| Published: 11/12/2012 |
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Hundreds of medical workers at North Central Florida prisons will begin applying next week to keep their jobs as the privatization of inmate health care starts transitioning to a January takeover. The privatization of health care statewide is expected to save the Florida Department of Corrections about $60 million, DOC spokeswoman Ann Howard said. North Florida prison health care will be contracted to Corizon, a Tennessee-based company that provides medical services in prisons nationwide. "It has been in the works for a very long time. It was done more than a year ago. This was a department decision, and the cost saving is going to be immense," Howard said. "One of the most expensive things we have to do is inmate health care, and it is a hard number to predict from year to year." Read More. |
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