DOVER, Del. (AP) - Delaware’s largest hospital system will conduct a review of medical and behavioral health care in state prisons.
Department of Correction officials said Thursday that Christiana Care Health System has agreed to conduct the review at no cost.
Christiana Care does not have expertise in prison health care but has agreed to provide recommendations based on health care industry standards.
Earlier this year, state lawmakers unanimously approved a bill reforming a committee charged with monitoring prison health care in Delaware.
The bill was introduced after the attorney general’s office confirmed it was investigating allegations that DOC’s medical contractor, Connections Community Support Programs, had ordered staffers to forge documents to falsely state inmates were getting mental health treatment they never received.
Connections also faces a host of inmate lawsuits.
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