However, a few months ago, a firm hired as a jail monitor wrote County Manager Lee Smith indicating concerns about CorrectHealth staffing. The firm, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) said “staffing has been an ongoing challenge at the jail. It said it had identified several staffing concerns (with CorrectHealth) that impacted risk. The letter saying this was “despite reports that CorrectHealth is fully staffed.”

The letter said during a monitoring period in early February that just one LPN was on duty with 21 inmates in the infirmary and six people on suicide watch. And it went on to say that “a lack consistent policies and procedures in mental health and suicide prevention in some cases might increase the likelihood of an adverse event.” Finally, COCHS recommended that CorrectHealth be fined $3 million for staffing vacancies and other other issues such as intake screenings.”

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