There is a serious problem in the prison system in the state of Arizona. And that problem is the current healthcare system that is in place. The prisoners that have been incarcerated in the past and in the present, do not have a sufficient amount of hygiene products that should be available to them. The bill that can solve this issue provides many hygiene products to prisoners for free. Some items include: tampons, shampoo, toothbrushes, aspirin, and body lotion. Providing these items for free to our prisoners can help them feel less like dogs and more likely to be correctly adopted back into society after their incarceration is over. The bill that can solve this issue is called HB 2638 and it was introduced by Sen. Juan Mendez and Rep. Athena …show more content…
Salman. The status of this bill is still being adjusted as it is still in its introduction phase since February 2018. This bill must be passed if we want to integrate our prisoners back into society. The company responsible for the healthcare in our prisons is Corizon, and what they have been doing is beyond despicable. There was a case where a woman with a history of breast cancer in her family had found a mass in her breast but she was denied a mammogram (Saul). This is just one instance of the horrible treatment that Arizonan prisoners could experience. In another case, there was a man who bite off parts of his fingers and stated that he “would rather kill himself than live in such extreme agony” (Saul). A man was brought to the state of such distress all because he had not received the right pain medicine. The implementation of the bill could stop these horrid acts from happening. However, the cases of the woman finding the mass and the man chewing off his fingers are not the only cases of the horrible treatment that prisoners have endured thanks to Corizon.
There is a prisoner who claims to have gone an entire year without treatment, he was suffering from lymphoma (Ross). The healthcare system that is being run by Corizon is completely and utterly corrupt, enough to where a man suffering from cancer is not receiving the care that he needs. Thankfully, this man did not experience excruciating pain such as the earlier mentioned prisoner who had chewed off parts of their fingers. In further reviewing of the problem of the current healthcare in our prisons, it is easily identifiable that the company Corizon has been turning a blind eye to our prisoners in need. According to azcentral, the director of Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) states that “the health-management company retained by his department to manage inmate health care has been the root of the problem” (Kiefer). The healthcare problems have been caused by the company Corizon. Luckily, Corizon is receiving adequate punishment for their inadequate care for prisoners in the state of Arizona. For each instance of non-compliance they will be fined $1,000 (“Judge Calls Arizona”). In this case, Corizon receives a punishment for their past behavior and an incentive to improve their healthcare to prisoners so they do not lose money because of their actions. This is not just the company’s fault however, the doctors that are hired by corizon are to blame as well. This is so because Corizon and the ADC have stated that the doctors do not want to have inmates in their care (Jenkins). There are many different factors that play into the horrible healthcare in place in our prisons, but there are steps being taken that will lead to a proper system for
prisoners. The proper healthcare from this bill will restore the humanity for prisoners. Inmates are seen as second class citizens, they have fallen off their path but that does not mean that they should be treated as lesser beings. However, it is subjective, there are in fact some prisoners who have committed horrible deeds to others. This essay focuses on the prisoners who are terminally ill yet are not receiving the care that they must acquire. Corizon is being punished for their actions and a new system should be in place by the end of the year 2018. This bill must be passed for a more just society.
Membership Services (MSD) at Kaiser Permanente used to be a modest department of sixty staff. However, over the past few years the department has doubled in size, creating minor departmental reorganization. In addition the increase of departmental staffing, several challenges became apparent. The changes included primary job function, as well as the introduction of new network system software which slowed down the processes of other departments. These departments included Claims (who pay the bills for service providers outside of the Kaiser Permanente network), and Patient Business Services (who send invoices to members for services received within Kaiser Permanente). Due to the unforeseen challenges created by the system upgrade, it was decided that MSD would process the calls for both of the affected departments. Unfortunately, this created a catastrophic event of MSD receiving numerous phone calls from upset members—who had received bills a year after the service had been provided. The average Monday call volume had risen from 1,800 to 2,600 calls per day. The average handling time for each phone call had risen as well—from an acceptable standard of 5.6 minutes to an unfavorable 7.2 minutes. The department continued to be kept inundated with these types of calls for the two years that these changes have been effect.
The cost of Medical equipment plays a significant role in the delivery of health care. The clinical engineering at Victoria Hospital is an important branch of the hospital team management that are working to strategies ways to improve quality of service and lower cost repairs of equipments. The team members from Biomedical and maintenance engineering’s roles are to ensure utilization of quality equipments such as endoscope and minimize length of repair time. All these issues are a major influence in the hospital’s project cost. For example, Victory hospital, which is located in Canada, is in the process of evaluating different options to decrease cost of its endoscope repair. This equipment is use in the endoscopy department for gastroenterological and surgical procedures. In 1993, 2,500 cases where approximately performed and extensive maintenance of the equipment where needed before and after each of those cases. Despite the appropriate care of the scope, repair requirement where still needed. The total cost of repair that year was $60,000 and the repair services where done by an original equipment manufacturers in Ontario.
Our system isn’t require to provided five star services to its incarcerated members of society, our justice system is only require to provide enough care to not inflict any addition harm. The Plaintiff may or may not have been aware of his medical condition prior to entering pretrial confinement, therefore, it was not noted on the intake
The US Commissioner Report (2011) details the rise in patient dumping from in the last ten years. Previously, hospitals were in their legal right to refuse health care to patients. It was not until the ~1980’s that a law was bought in to stop patient dumping and the refusal of treatment. Patient dumping occurs when patients are either uninsured, immigrants or lack funds to pay for medical bills that hospitals ‘dump’/relocate in a dishonourable way those patients to over hospitals. In doing so, that hospital is therefore not liable to provide treatment to the patient. It is now estimated that 250,000 US patients annually are denied medical treatment, in addition 15.4% of US citizens do not have health insurance. Recent research (Blalock & Wolfe,
I believe in order to actually change this policy it would take fighting legislation in congress.
The United States is a nation with the largest prison population and crime rates in the world. When the governmental controlled facilities were in a deficit where they lacked funds and space could not house the inmates, private prisons were developed. Along with the solution of private of prisons, the controversy concerning the funding of health care, recovery and other expenses have been one of the fundamental concerns for the American Justice System. Both the private and public facilities came together and join a partnership where the government facility agreed to bear the expenses of healthcare and other medical exams, and the private facility would find spaces and funds to house inmates. However, to continuously gain profit, the sentencing
For a variety of reasons, many inmates do not seek diagnosis or treatment for illness before arriving to prison or jail. Because inmates are literally a “captive” audience, it is vastly more efficient and effective to screen and treat them while incarcerated than to conduct extensive outreach in local communities. (AIDS Weekly. 1998) Uninfected prisoners have sued the authorities for failing to test and segregate. In a recently reported case, Cameron v. Metcuz 705 F. Supp 454 (N.D. Ind 1989), an uninfected plaintiff prisoner sued prison authorities for failing to segregate a known infected prisoner with a violent history who had bitten the plaintiff. In that case, the court found that the authorities’ failure to segregate a known infected prisoner with a violent history did not amount to gross negligence or reckless indifference to the prisoner who was bitten. (Mead. Vol. 15 no. 5, pp. 197-9).
The system of the Prison Industrial Complex operates within the law. The law allows private companies to infiltrate the prison, while keeping prisoners in a subjugated position. The law, under the Eight Amendment obligates prison officials to provide prisoners with “adequate” medical care. This principle applies regardless of whether the medical care provided is by governmental employees or by private medical staff under contract with the government (Project, 2012). If prisoners believe they are being denied their constitutio...
In the case of Tomcik v. Ohio Dep’t of Rehabilitation & Correction, the main issue present was the medical negligence demonstrated by the staff of the medical clinic at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction towards the inmate Tomcik. Specifically, nonfeasance, or the “failure to act, when there is a duty to act as a reasonably prudent person would in similar circumstances” (Pozgar, 2016, p. 192), was displayed when the employees at the medical clinic failed to give immediate medical attention to Tomcik when she continually signed the clinic list and “provided the reason she was requesting
Some inmates have incurable conditions. Troy Reid who had high blood pressure and kidney problems was one (Mendelssohn. p. 295). July of 2007 Reid began to get treated for his kidneys that were shutting down (Mendelssohn. p. 295). Three times a week he would get a kidney dialysis but on April of 2008 he died (Mendelssohn. p. 295). He grown tired of the treatments and decided to die (Mendelssohn. p. 295). From July 2007 to April 2008 taxpayers paid for Reid’s treatments. For some people the treatments that Reid had no point and was just a waste. If inmates that have incurable diseases like Reid’s should not be in prison or jail. They should be released and they them self should pay for the treatment they seek. A lot of money was wasted on Reid; this is a reason they should not pay for inmate health care.
The number of individuals that are incarcerated in the United States on a daily basis has surpassed 2.2 million (Gibbons & Katzenbach, 2011). Annually, 13.5 million people at some point and time spend time in prison or jail with approximately 95 percent of them ultimately returning to society (Gibbons et al., 2011). Taking the aforementioned statement into considerations the author believes that it is safe to say that what goes on behind prison walls effects all members of society. When correctional facilities are unsafe, unhealthy, unproductive, or inhumane it affects both the people who work in them as well as the people that are living there at some point and time.
There are many issues, both ethical and moral, concerning how correctional officers treat inmates, whether they receive the proper medical attention, and how extensive incarceration sentences affect their mental state. These issues that inmates face have been a problem for several decades now. Most citizens do not even take the time to find out what inmates deal with on a daily basis. Once a person is imprisoned, people think they are where they belong and do not care how they are treated in prison. For the most part this is true, but it does not mean that an inmate does not deserve fair treatment and not to have their basic rights as an American citizen infringed upon. Regardless of the severity of their crime or how long their sentence is,
In Taft, California, with a perimeter of razor wire, armed prison guards, supervise hundreds of medium security level federal inmates. Welcome to one of America's newest and fastest growing trends in the area of corrections. This new phenomenon is termed, The Corporation of Modern Corrections. Faced with an increase in prison overcrowding and aging institutions, court orders demanding immediate reform coupled with a straining budget, mandatory minimum sentences, and the public's attitude toward "getting tough on crime", America's justice system is in need of an overhaul. Thus, government leaders are ready to consider different options to help reduce the strain, while still meeting is legal responsibility to provide services. The option to emerge to the forefront is Prison Privatization - " the transfer of asset's and of production of public goods and services from government to the private sector."1 in other words, private interest is being given the opportunity to help alleviate the strain of taking care of a growing population more economically and efficiently than the government.
The purpose of this paper is to examine the Heritage Valley Medical Center case study. The paper will start off with a brief background of Heritage Valley, along with a summary of the major problems and issues faced there. Next, the author will explain the role that was chosen while addressing the challenges of Heritage Valley and their reasoning in doing so. The author will then identify the strengths and weaknesses of Heritage Valley and offer to select the best alternative and recommended solutions, which will be followed by a brief description of the evaluation plan that could be used to measure the effectiveness of the recommended solution.
Ferris Healthcare, Inc recognizes that their growth as organization was depending on their rapid implementation of project management. Their line managers have been performing as project managers, which most of the times resulted on delayed and over budget projects. All employees agree that a project management methodology is necessary in the organization.