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LaSalle County officials plan new hospital clearance form to limit jail liability
Summary
County staff presented a draft form and plan to require hospitals to certify whether an arrestee is medically fit for custody before the jail will accept them back, citing repeated incidents of premature hospital releases and staffing limits at the jail.
LaSalle County officials said they will begin pressing local hospitals to complete a new medical-clearance form before the jail accepts arrestees released from emergency departments, a change officials said is intended to reduce county liability and repeated re-admissions.
The proposal came Friday during an Insurance and Trust Committee meeting where a county staff member described repeated cases in which hospitals discharged people back to law enforcement quickly — sometimes minutes after arrival — and the jail later discovered the person needed further medical care. “We get a lot of people that sometimes an officer should take them in and they should probably get admitted to choices and the hospital say well they're going to the jail, the jail will be okay to take care of them,” the staff member said.
The county’s risk-management…
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