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Brazos County officials propose new jail medical divisions and staffing to bring care in-house
Summary
County staff told Commissioners Court they plan to move jail medical services out of a contracted model into two new county divisions — jail correctional medicine and juvenile correctional medicine — adding positions and requesting budget increases to reduce reliance on an outside vendor and to meet state care requirements.
Brazos County leaders presented a plan Aug. 13 to reorganize and expand jail medical services, creating a new jail correctional medicine division and a juvenile correctional medicine division and asking Commissioners Court to approve additional staffing and budget authority.
County presenter Miss Payne said the proposal would move existing positions out of the current external-contract model and place medical staff under the county's health clinic to better control costs and staffing. "This new division will, instead of 19 positions, we'll be bringing 22 positions," Payne said during the budget workshop.
The proposal, as described to the court, would remove 19 positions from the existing contracted clinic (a decrease the presenter described as about $1.3 million), create two separate county divisions for adult and juvenile correctional medicine, and add positions including a nurse manager, registered nurses,…
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