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DOC proposes centralized medical facility and pharmacy to serve aging prison population
Summary
Oregon DOC told the Public Safety Subcommittee it seeks funding to study and design a centralized medical campus to provide geriatric, hospice and acute care, consolidate pharmacy operations and reduce costly off‑site trips for oncology and other treatments.
Tom Martin and other DOC officials told the Public Safety Subcommittee on May 6 that the department wants to develop a centralized medical facility to provide acute, long‑term and geriatric care for adults in custody and to co‑locate a main pharmacy and transport unit.
"The medical care facilities within our institutions here in the Valley, for the most part, are severely outdated, undersized for the demand, and in need of significant repair and updating," Tom Martin said, adding that the department’s pharmacy is leased and not configured to compound medicines or support…
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