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12 Jun 2014, 11:50 am by Blake Gaines
If you or someone you know has been denied adequate mental health services in the Los Angeles County Jail, you may be entitled to relief. [read post]
12 Jun 2014, 11:50 am by Blake Gaines
If you or someone you know has been denied adequate mental health services in the Los Angeles County Jail, you may be entitled to relief. [read post]
2 Feb 2013, 9:28 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Not only are there costs to local government from uncompensated care at the emergency room, IMO there's a not-negligible public safety cost from limiting access to mental-health services in an era when we use local jails as front-end mental health providers. [read post]
29 Dec 2010, 5:41 am by Gritsforbreakfast
The largest administrator of mental health services in Harris County is the county jail. [read post]
8 Jan 2018, 10:53 am by Evan Schwartz
In my practice, I am frequently confronted with cases involving health insurance companies seeking to audit and recover money already paid to healthcare providers for services they have rendered to patients. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 5:17 am by Gritsforbreakfast
  Failure to protect them or provide them with services can subject the jail and the county to lawsuits that seek substantial damages as well as injunctive relief. [read post]
26 Jan 2011, 7:54 am by Gritsforbreakfast
A story in the Austin Statesman by Andrea Ball focuses on the effects of proposed budget cuts to mental health services on the criminal justice system, noting that "Austin Travis County Integral Care, which provided psychiatric services to about 16,800 people last year, is expecting to lose funding for about 2,500 people each year. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 9:46 am by Gritsforbreakfast
An joint op ed from the Harris County Sheriff and the Houston Police Chief with the same title as this post reminds us that the Harris County Jail, by a wide margin, is the state's single largest mental health services provider. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 6:56 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Presumably this includes mental health, judging from Naphcare's list of services covered on its website.Naphcare also runs jail healthcare in Beaumont (Jefferson County) and quite a few other local jails and federal Bureau of Prisons facilities around the country, though it no longer performs any work in its home state after Alabama changed providers in the wake of widespread litigation. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 2:18 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Mental health services are free as are chronic care services for such things as blood pressure conditions and diabetes.Bexar, Fayette and Stephens counties also charge jail inmates for medical services, said Adan Munoz, executive director of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 7:28 am by Andrew M. Ironside
The Los Angeles Times's Cindy Chang: The county jails have been monitored by federal officials for the last 12 years under an agreement requiring improvements in treatment of the mentally ill. [read post]
3 Sep 2008, 8:52 am
Key proposals include stricter evaluation of medical care provided at county jails and improving medical care and services for pregnant inmates.I agree with most of what Simpson has proposed, but this statement in particular strikes me as only 2/3 correct: "Currently, the statutory authority of TCJS does not allow it to inspect in a meaningful way the quality of medical care, the quality of mental health services, or the conditions of confinement. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 5:53 am by Gritsforbreakfast
Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia wants to reframe the debate over jail bulding - hoping to succeed where his GOP predecessor failed - by portraying an expanded booking center and extra beds as providing services for the mentally ill. [read post]
25 May 2022, 12:41 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
Corizon, like Wellpath, is one of the largest providers of contract medical services in correctional facilities. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 3:26 pm by Gritsforbreakfast
Eliminating the 183 beds, which have the potential to serve thousands of individuals, will further contribute to the fact that the Harris County Jail is now the largest provider of mental health services in Texas.To make matters worse, a $10 million reduction to psychiatric crisis services, which would cut care to 6,000 people statewide, is also included in the proposal. [read post]
4 Jun 2021, 12:18 pm by Mitchell Jagodinski
The post Circuit splits on copyright information and health care in jails appeared first on SCOTUSblog. [read post]
30 Oct 2015, 6:31 pm by Staff Writer
The indictment alleges that the physicians were paid by two co-conspirators to sign off on home health care services that were either not necessary or ever provided. [read post]
24 Oct 2018, 7:44 pm by Jamie Markham
Department of Health and Human Services—the administrative office responsible for inspecting jails—advised in a memo to the jails that the practice “is in direct violation of the statute. [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 9:08 am
The Supreme Court has long declared counties are constitutionally required to provide healthcare to those in their jails. [read post]