Tag: Prison Health Services
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Sudden turnover at the top, financial downgrade raise flags about state prison provider Corizon
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The two top executives of a state vendor who negotiated a $1.2 billion contract with the Florida Department of Corrections to provide medical care for thousands of state prisoners were abruptly fired on Wednesday. -
Florida prison officials didn’t ask, companies didn’t tell about hundreds of malpractice cases
By Dan Christensen
BrowardBulldog.org
The Florida Department of Corrections awarded a five-year, $1.2 billion contract to provide medical care for thousands of state prisoners in north and central Florida to Corizon, a Tennessee company that was sued 660 times for malpractice in the last five years.
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