EXCLUSIVE: Department of Corrections Not Contracting with 'Licensed Health Care Providers'?
| Posted: August 9, 2012 8:25 PM
In a couple of weeks, Judge Kevin Carroll of the 2nd Judicial Circuit Court is expected to determine whether nurses and other state employees may proceed with their present lawsuit against the Florida Department of Corrections (DOC), or whether they will need to file an entirely new one in their long-ranging battle against privatization of prison health services.
Whatever course the dispute takes, officials at the DOC will find themselves tackling an allegation so far unreported: that the proposal to privatize prison health services is unlawful because neither of the corporations the DOC is attempting to contract with, Wexford Health Sources and Corizon Inc., is a “licensed health care provider.”
