By Gary Grado | Arizona Capitol Times
A court exhibit unsealed today in a class-action lawsuit portrays the healthcare system in Arizona’s prisons as being broken and dismal, plagued by inadequate medical records, bad management and unsafe nursing practices.
The 129-page exhibit is a slide show presentation used at a Nov. 7, 2012, meeting between Wexford Health Sources and the Arizona Department of Corrections in which the private company laid out a myriad of problems it claimed existed before the two parties entered into a contract on July 1, 2012.
The DOC had previously complained that substantial problems occurred after Wexford took over.
The company, which presented the same information to the Governor’s Office, eventually walked away from the contract, and Corizon Health has been providing health services since March 3. An executive with Corizon said DOC has not made similar complaints about its services and that the company is working to improve conditions in the prison health system.
