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Prison board recommends Armor Health to county commissioners for inmate medical services
Summary
The Lackawanna County Prison Board voted to recommend that the Board of Commissioners award a contract for medical services to Armor Correctional Health Services following a presentation and questions from board members and the public.
The Lackawanna County Prison Board voted to recommend to the Board of Commissioners that Armor Correctional Health Services (Armor Health) be awarded the contract to provide medical services at the Lackawanna County Prison.
Armor Health made a presentation to the prison board outlining its clinical model, data analytics, staffing and retention strategies. Rex Caldwell, director of business development for Armor Health, told the board the company plans to provide 27.7 full-time-equivalent positions, including 2.7 FTEs dedicated to a medication-assisted treatment program. Caldwell said Armor emphasizes an aggressive intake assessment and ongoing risk stratification to prioritize high-need patients and reduce avoidable emergency-room visits: "that initial assessment is, we think is the most important, important, part of what we do," he said.
The company said it uses dashboards and an…
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