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The DMHC Help Center provides direct assistance in all languages to health care consumers through the Department’s website, www.HealthHelp.ca.gov, and a toll-free phone number, 1-888-466-2219. Mary Watanabe is currently the director of the DMHC. The DMHC is part of the California Health and Human Services Agency. It was established in 2000 ...
As of 2008–09 fiscal year, the state of California spent approximately $16,000 per inmate per year on prison health care. [20] This amount was by far the largest in the country and more than triple the $4,400 spent per inmate in 2001. [ 21 ]
California Correctional Institution: CCI Kern: 1954 2,783 3,516 126.3% Opened in 1954 on the site of the former California Institute for Women, which opened in 1932 and closed in 1952 after the 1952 Kern County earthquake. California Health Care Facility: CHCF San Joaquin: 2013 2,951 2,751 93.2%
Having been "authorized by legislation approved in 1993," SATF opened in August 1997. [7] [8]The California Office of the Inspector General issued a January 2003 report on health care at SATF that "suggest[ed] three inmate deaths in the previous two years could be attributed in part to negligent medical treatment."
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Amarillo (TTUHSC Amarillo) is a branch campus of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) located in Amarillo, Texas. The university exists in two locations in Amarillo: one housing the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health and the Harrington Library of the Health Sciences, and ...
[5] CMF has the largest hospital among California prisons. [6] In 2005, CMF had 506 medical staff positions (many of which were not filled) and a health care budget of $72.3 million. [5] As of Fiscal Year 2006/2007, CMF had a total of 1,853 staff and an annual budget of $180 million. [4]
California Health Care Facility (CHCF) is a state prison for incarcerated patients with long-term medical needs or acute mental health needs. The prison is located in Stockton, California, on the site of the former Karl Holton Youth Correctional Facility. Incarcerated people of all security levels are treated at the facility.
Infectious diseases within American correctional settings are a concern within the public health sector. The corrections population is susceptible to infectious diseases through exposure to blood and other bodily fluids, drug injection, poor health care, prison overcrowding, demographics, security issues, lack of community support for rehabilitation programs, and high-risk behaviors. [1]