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Hudson County awards nearly $15 million correctional health contract to CFG; officials outline 62-bed community facility and Medicaid pathway
Summary
The county placed a Fair and Open award to CFG Health Systems for correctional medical, mental-health and fiscal management services (Year 1 value $14,965,955). CFG and county officials described a 62-bed 'Silver Lakes' stabilization facility for dual-diagnosis patients and discussed how Medicaid eligibility and community placements factor into reentry planning.
Hudson County commissioners included a resolution in their Aug. 12 caucus awarding a Fair and Open competitive contract to CFG Health Systems for medical and mental-health management at the Hudson County Correctional and Rehabilitation Center, with a Year 1 value of $14,965,955.
CFG representatives described changes to the company and a community placement model they said helps stabilize people with serious mental illness after release. "We have a 62-bed unit that's in the community that will be able to take dual diagnosis patients," said Dr. Hanset, CFG's medical director. He said the facility — identified in the discussion as "Silver Lakes" — is intended for discharge planning and short-term stabilization: "They can hold that patient on from one to three months as they do the stabilization, and then they…
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