The Contract Went To… A Snapshot Of Prison Health Care Contract Awards

Where are most health care services for prisons delivered? “On-site” might seem like the obvious answer, but I was still intrigued by the numbers from the 2016 federal Department of Health and Human Services report, National Survey Of Prison Health Care: Selected Findings, that of the 45 states that participated, most states delivered several services on-site, including inpatient and outpatient mental health care (27 and 44 states, respectively), care for chronic diseases (31 states), long-term or nursing home care (35 states), and hospice care (35 states . . .