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Wayne County seeks $350,000 to cover detention center medical shortfall amid contract change and high-cost safekeepers
Summary
County staff told commissioners they need an additional $350,000 to finish the fiscal year for detention center medical services, citing a new IMS contract, higher claim-scrubbing fees and final invoices to a prior vendor plus two high-cost safekeeper inmates.
County staff informed the Wayne County Board of Commissioners on Feb. 18, 2025 that the Detention Center was projecting an anticipated shortfall of about $350,000 in its medical services line and requested a budget amendment to cover March–June needs.
Staff said the Detention Center’s medical contract with IMS Correctional Healthcare is charged at $96,007.81 per month (annualized in presentations at roughly $1.16 million), and the…
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