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Vigo County budget committee hears plan to cut juvenile center medical costs by replacing RN contract with LPN + nurse practitioner model
Summary
Bill Watson, director of court services, told the Vigo County budget committee that the juvenile detention center’s medical coverage has been paid from the sheriff’s budget but will return to day-to-day court control on Jan. 1 and that the county must decide how medical costs will be funded going forward.
Bill Watson, director of court services, told the Vigo County budget committee that the juvenile detention center’s medical coverage has been paid from the sheriff’s budget but will return to day-to-day court control on Jan. 1 and that the county must decide how medical costs will be funded going forward.
Watson said the existing jail medical arrangement was “kind of excessive” — he referenced a figure of about $246,000 cited during prior discussions — and proposed shifting to an LPN (licensed practical nurse) who would be cross-trained as a custody officer and overseen on contract by a family nurse practitioner to reduce costs.
Watson said the juvenile center’s medical coverage “had always been a part of the sheriff’s medical budget…
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