Reporting on Prison Health Care: A Live Internet Radio Conversation with KPCC's Julie Small

The day of this blogtalkradio conversation, the Office of the Inspector General released a final report finding:
"We reviewed the 17 prisons’ performance in these five general medical categories: medication management; access to medical providers and services; continuity of care; primary care
provider responsibilities; and nurse responsibilities. In doing so, we noted two significant recurring problems. First: nearly all prisons were ineffective at ensuring that inmates receive
their medications. Sixteen of the 17 institutions either failed to timely administer, provide or deliver medications or failed to document that they had done so. The 17 prisons’ average
score of 58 percent in medication management was significantly below the minimum score for moderate adherence.

"Numerous prisons were significantly noncompliant in the following medication management
tasks: delivering sick call medications (new orders) to inmates; providing chronic care medications; providing medications to inmates within one day of arrival at the prison; delivering medications to inmates upon discharge from an outside hospital; and administering tuberculosis medications."

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