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OPEN MINDS
April 6, 2018
Winning Proposal: Ohio's Richland County Awards Medical Services Contract to Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc. $435,491. Advanced Correctional Healthcare, Inc. $199.00 – Add to Cart Checkout Added to cart. CAÃâà...
WNDU-TV
March 19, 2018
Gina Salinas, a licensed practical nurse (LPN) for Advanced Correctional Healthcare (ACH), was arrested on a single count of trafficking with an inmate, a level 5 felony. The cell phone was found in a cellblock. Salinas remains lodged in the LaPorte County Jail on a $15,005 cash only bond. She was firedÃâà...
Rockford Register Star
February 5, 2018
ROCKFORD — County Board Chairman Frank Haney and Sheriff Gary Caruana have reached an agreement to hire 10 corrections officers at the Winnebago County Jail at a cost of $350,000. The sheriff will request a budget amendment next week at a joint meeting of the Finance and Public SafetyÃâà...
Rockford Register Star
January 18, 2018
The training program is among the fruits of a 10-month, $101,000 contract signed by the county late last year with Advanced Correctional Healthcare Inc. The Peoria-based company replaced services provided by Rosecrance, at a savings to the jail of more than $13,000. Mental health challenges areÃâà...
Capital and Main
December 22, 2017
Advanced Correctional Healthcare, based in Peoria, Illinois, serves over 250 jails and prisons in 17 Midwestern and Southern states and, on its website, states the company is saving thousands of dollars for local governments. But in the past 12 years, more than 150 inmates or their families have filed suitÃâà...
Swnews4u
December 20, 2017
He decided the best route to follow was to hire Advanced Correctional Healthcare to supply medical services required by the jail. ACH already has contracts with Vernon, Grant and Richland counties to provide medical service to their jails. On November 1, McCullick appeared at a meeting of the CrawfordÃâà...
Springfield News-Leader
December 5, 2017
Advanced Correctional Healthcare, which attends to medical needs of inmates at the Christian County Jail, did not provide Parker with sufficient medical treatment, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit also says Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole and the jail have a "widespread practice of failing to provideÃâà...
Shadowproof (blog)
November 7, 2017
The family of a deceased man who was incarcerated at Kentucky's Bourbon County Jail has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, jail officials, and the private medical contractor Advanced Correctional Healthcare. They allege “deliberate indifference” was shown to the man's “obviously serious medicalÃâà...
Knoxville News Sentinel
August 7, 2017
Although there are medical boards that monitor private firms such as home health providers, no such boards exist for businesses that provide inmate medical care. Scott County contracts with Advanced Correctional Healthcare Inc., a firm headquartered in Peoria, Ill., and headed by a doctor and his wife.
Illinois Times
July 6, 2017
In 2012, after Adams took his own life, the county hired Advanced Correctional Healthcare, a Peoria-based company, to provide medical care in the jail, and the contract includes weekly visits by a mental health professional, Kettelkamp said. Guards get training twice a year on mental health issues, he said.
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