Conmed Healthcare Management, a correctional healthcare services provider, announced today that it has signed a full-service agreement to provide services for the Marion County Detention Center (MCDC) in Marion County, Kentucky. Conmed expects to generate approximately $0.3 million during the initial 12-month term, which begins on April 1, 2012.
Conmed’s Chairman and CEO, Richard Turner, remarked, “We are very pleased to gain entry to Kentucky, our tenth state, through the Marion County agreement, and look forward to providing cost-effective, compliant healthcare services to Marion County Detention Center detainees at the same high quality that earned the facility its American Correctional Association certification in 2011. We continue to execute our business model, offering quality correctional medical and mental health services, while driving growth organically, both in areas we currently serve and new areas.”
According to the contract, Conmed will provide the facility’s 300-person inmate population with physicians, mid-level providers, nurses, laboratory, x-ray, pharmacy, emergency department, and hospitalization.
Since its founding in 1984, Conmed has provided correctional healthcare services to correctional facilities in ten states: Arizona, Kansas, Maryland, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and now, Kentucky. Marion County is located in Kentucky’s Bluegrass Region, equidistant from Louisville, Lexington, and Frankfort. In 2011, the Marion County Detention Center became the first and only detention center in Kentucky to receive American Correctional Association (ACA) certification.
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