Medical care in prisons
Scheduled clinical rounds inside correctional facilities, where healthcare is thin and communicable disease moves quickly.
- Priority
- Communicable disease
- Model
- Scheduled clinical rounds
- Escalation
- Hospital referral
Prisoners are among the least visible patients in the country. Overcrowding turns a single case of tuberculosis or hepatitis into an outbreak, and routine complaints go unexamined for months.
Our teams hold scheduled clinics inside correctional facilities, treat what can be treated on site, screen for communicable disease and press for transfer where a case needs a hospital. It is unglamorous work, and it is precisely the work our mission asks of us.
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