Correctional Medicine

New Alabama healthcare chief says system needs funds, not Band-Aids

Published in Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly, November 25th, 2004

The new healthcare director for the state Department of Corrections (DOC) has the task of making sure recent lawsuit settlements bring mandated improvements in the medical care of inmates.

She hopes those settlements will also bring some major doctoring, not Band-Aids, to the prison system's financial condition to prevent future lawsuits.

The prison system is a patient with a lot of ailments.

"We have a very old system that's dealing with a population that's double its capacity and a lack of funding," said Ruth Naglich.

Naglich was hired on October 4, after the DOC settled three inmate lawsuits between May and...

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Source: Medical Verdicts and Law Weekly (2004-11-25)

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