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Cowlitz County awards five-year jail pharmacy contract; director says county pays for inmate prescriptions
Summary
Cowlitz County awarded a five-year pharmaceutical-services contract for its correctional facility to Westwood Pharmacy and county corrections director Brynn Fox told commissioners the county assumes responsibility for medical care and prescriptions when someone is in custody.
Cowlitz County commissioners on Tuesday approved a five-year contract with Westwood Pharmacy to provide pharmaceutical services for the county corrections facility.
The chair described the contract as a five-year agreement that locks in prices with "no yearly increases," and said the contract resulted from a request for proposals that drew two bidders. "There's it's a 5 year contract, and we learned yesterday there's no yearly…
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