tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post821609957270001110..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Can regional health providers replace UTMB prisoner healthcare?Gritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-70065681326107535382012-05-08T23:36:46.534-05:002012-05-08T23:36:46.534-05:00Hmm it appears like your site ate my first comment...Hmm it appears like your site ate my first comment (it was extremely long) so I guess I'll just sum it up what I submitted and say, I'm thoroughly enjoying your blog. I as well am an aspiring blog writer but I'm still new to the whole thing. Do you have any suggestions for inexperienced blog writers? 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This was at the University Medical Center in Lubbock. <br /><br />The women told police that during the standoff, Nelson restrained them with handcuffs and repeatedly raped them.<br /><br />Nelson is serving 140 years for sexual assault, burglary and car theft, including the rape of a female civilian prison employee.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-25010005468127651102011-10-20T15:59:23.328-05:002011-10-20T15:59:23.328-05:00This is just setting TDCJ up for privitization. I...This is just setting TDCJ up for privitization. I'm sure ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) has model legislation for this to happen this next session.<br /><br />The taxpayers, employees, and offenders will be the losers on this deal. Maybe taxpayers can fund this massive privitization of Texas Prisons with a state income tax????? The managed care system needs to continue with UTMB holding the contract. This keeps TDCJ out of the Federal Court House. Brad and the boys have failed to take a serious look at what happened in California.<br /><br />The solution for TDCJ's health care cost is medical parole for the elderly offenders. Why the F--- are we keeping 80 year old men in maximum security prisons???? The State of Texas needs to make use of civil commitments for these old perverts. Make use of probation for these old sex offenders... Place a sign in grandpa's yard letting the kids in the neighbor know grandpa is a pervert and to stay 500 feet away from his house.<br /><br />Coroplast Sign - $20.00<br /><br />TDCJ Imprisonment with medical cost - $250,000.00<br /><br />Maybe this cost savings can fund my kids school and they grow up in a country with other educated kids and not CRACK HEADS.Lancenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-15783368488865928502011-10-19T12:51:22.441-05:002011-10-19T12:51:22.441-05:00TDCJ-ERS benefits are better than UTMB-TRS, trust ...TDCJ-ERS benefits are better than UTMB-TRS, trust me. One need only look at the packages as well as how time off is constructed. Pay might be the issue on this, but not benefits.rick stanfieldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-62999539344865071742011-10-17T20:40:30.874-05:002011-10-17T20:40:30.874-05:00For the uninitiated, 340B pricing mentioned above ...For the uninitiated, 340B pricing mentioned above is a federal statute that sets extremely low prices on medications...it's available to public health entities and the UTMB program qualifies. Private hospitals and vendors have to pay closer to "full list price" so UTMB is able to pass on vastly lower costs on medication than could the private sector.Prison Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03651611135066437902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-86823112846278379252011-10-17T20:12:40.464-05:002011-10-17T20:12:40.464-05:00Nursey Pooh is right. There isn't enough secu...Nursey Pooh is right. There isn't enough security staff to care for each patient that we send off the unit for medical treatment in the local hospitals. If we have just one or two patients in a local hospital, the Warden is hounding the Nurse Manager to see what he/she can do to get the patient transferred to Galveston because Hospital Galveston is staffed with their own security and medical/nursing staff. I have spent many a day helping my Nurse Manager on the phone with UR trying to get a bed at HG for a patient to transfer from a local hospital or checking to see when they are stable for transfer. <br /><br />So now TDCJ wants to utilize regional hospitals to house sick offenders on a constant basis and jeopardize the public's safety to save a few bucks? Unbelievable! Didn't they learn their lesson with the incident that occurred several years back at a hospital in West Texas? History does and will repeat itself under this scenario. How soon we forget. <br /><br />I am all for taking good care of the offender population when they are sick and need medical attention. Most offenders don't abuse the system in medical, but there are some that are psychopaths and have no conscience and this is an ideal situation to be taken to a free world hospital with no iron gates, no razor wire, and free public access from their family and friends to supply them with a means and a way to escape. Sure hoping the decision makers rethink all options and weigh them carefully.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29973846195932026762011-10-17T19:56:56.048-05:002011-10-17T19:56:56.048-05:00Can't imagine TDCJ could make up literally mil...Can't imagine TDCJ could make up literally millions in savings that UTMB provides the state in drug costs with the 340b pricing. If TDCJ believes it can save millions by contracting to regional hospitals, I would sure love to see the math on that one. Texas Tech contracts out some of their prison healthcare to hospitals that are located close to their prisons in rural and remote areas but their patients are generally very healthy. The sickest patients end up on the UTMB side by design because UTMB is able to better care for the sicker population. Will be interesting to see how this all plays out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-77997614488667106192011-10-17T19:41:40.389-05:002011-10-17T19:41:40.389-05:00Guaranteed: It won't improve medical care for...Guaranteed: It won't improve medical care for inmates where the word "care" and "medical" are oxymorons.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-80092876482142611072011-10-17T17:35:39.366-05:002011-10-17T17:35:39.366-05:00There is not enough security officers to go with o...There is not enough security officers to go with offenders to the hospitals as it is now. 2 officers have to go and stay. Hmmm will they find money to hire more security?<br /><br />This is another wait and see thing for us.Nurseypoohnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-51411031047259797892011-10-17T11:14:55.672-05:002011-10-17T11:14:55.672-05:00Based on my experienced opinion having worked in s...Based on my experienced opinion having worked in said environment, I can assure you that the buffoons making these decisions don't fully realize what they are doing. I seriously doubt whether they care about what happens to correctional staff. Yes, they talk a good game, but they are basically inept when it comes to correctional dynamics. <br /><br />For instance, John Whitmire seems to wake up in a new world every day. After his utopian life was interrupted by a death row call, everything changed. Please, someone tell me, how does a chairperson of TDCJ know so little about adult corrections? <br /><br />Yes, I can see how regional hospitals might provide medical services for more serious conditions, but are you going to tie up TDCJ personnel for each visit? How stupid. Sometimes, it takes two officers to escort a patient to a regional facility. If they officers have to stay longer than 24 hours, the hospital stay gets quite expensive. <br /><br />Oh, and let's not forget the front line workers. These individuals are the most critical operatives in the system. They initiate the medical decisions required to send an offender for regional medical treatment.<br /><br />TDCJ officers cannot make medical decisions. <br /><br />Typically, mental health services deals with most of the behavior problems. Self-injurious behavior occurs at a very high frequency on most of these units. Someone has to determine whether these threats are consistent with secondary gain or legitimate auto-lethality. <br /><br />I seriously doubt this plan will work. Once offenders see the weaknesses present, they will exploit the situation, particularly for those who work outside of adult corrections. Also, the chance of escape increases when security gaps are present. <br /><br />What really needs to happen is an abortion of the current prison board. These cretins have made an entire mess of things.DeathBreathnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-18587780878343704422011-10-17T09:10:12.796-05:002011-10-17T09:10:12.796-05:00Fascinating article. We all wait with bated breat...Fascinating article. We all wait with bated breath to see what will really happen. Who is bluffing now? Perhaps everybody.<br /><br />We need Nostradamus, or at any rate someone smarter than I to predict what is going to happen.Prison Dochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03651611135066437902noreply@blogger.com