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| Tennessee-based Prison Health Services sues Baltimore County |
| By The Daily Record |
| Published: 06/06/2005 |
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The company that provides medical services to Baltimore County (Md.) inmates is arguing that it should not have to continue delivering those services at the county's expanded prison. Tennessee-based Prison Health Services filed suit against the county in Baltimore County Circuit Court recently, alleging that logistical aspects of the expansion will force the company to spend more to provide the same services. The $74 million expansion on Kenilworth Drive in Towson is set to be completed in the fall. The County did not bargain for, and the PHS did not agree to provide services, personnel and costs at this new facility; rather PHS contracted to provide services to the 'facilities' as they existed at the time the contract was formed, based on the RFP and Bid documents, the complaint states. The County has given notice to PHS that it expects PHS to provide the same services at the new facility as at the old facilities, despite the increased manpower required, at no increase in price. Thomas Bostwick, who is handling the case for the county, said Prison Health Services' claim that it will cost more to do business in the expanded prison hasn't been substantiated. It doesn't make sense because they haven't presented us with any concrete evidence of increased cost or increased manpower to provide services, he said. If anything, we believe that the expansion of the existing facility - that that's actually going to afford them a better opportunity to provide the services they're already providing. Reached at his Baltimore office last week, Prison Health Services attorney Stuart O. Simms declined to comment beyond what is in the complaint. The company contracted with the county in 2000 to attend to the medical needs of inmates at the detention center and the courthouse, according to the complaint. The contract is for five years and would have expired at the end of this month, but the county has a unilateral right to extend it. |
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