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Successful Reentry: The Perspective of Private Correctional Health Care Providers

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Due to public health and safety concerns, discharge planning is increasingly prioritized by correctional systems when preparing prisoners for their reintegration into the community. Annually, private correctional health care vendors provide $3 billion of health care services to inmates in correctional facilities throughout the U.S., but rarely are contracted to provide transitional health care. A discussion with 12 people representing five private nationwide correctional health care providers highlighted the barriers they face when implementing transitional health care and what templates of services health care companies could provide to state and counties to enhance the reentry process.

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  1. Private Correctional Healthcare Provider Meeting on Reentry, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, February 24, 2006; Falhowe, Renee, MD; Regional Medical Director; Correctional Medical Services, Inc.; Gallemore, Jr., Johnnie L., MD, JD; Director, Mental Health Services; Prison Health Services, Inc.; Haddad, Jane, PsyD; Vice President, Clinical Operations; MHM Services; Hubling, Jesse; Vice President of Marketing and Business Development; Prison Health Services; Keldie, Carl J., MD; Chief Medical Officer; Senior VP Clinical Services; Prison Health Services; King, Lambert, MD, PhD; Director, Internal Medicine; Queens Hospital Center; Lundquist, Tom, MD, MMM; Vice President and Chief Medical Officer; Wexford Health Services; Marshall, Tere, RN; Wexford Health Services; Rieger, Dean, MD, MPH; Chief Medical Officer; Corporate Medical Director; Correct Care Solutions; Smith, Hal, MPS, CCHP; Corporate Consultant for Clinical Operations; MHM Services; Wheeler, Steven H.; President and Chief Operating Officer; MHM Services.

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  1. Department of Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA

    Jeff Mellow Ph.D.

  2. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA

    Robert B. Greifinger

  3. Department of Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY, 10019, USA

    Jeff Mellow Ph.D.

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Mellow is with the Department of Law, Police Science & Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA; Greifinger is with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, USA.

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Mellow, J., Greifinger, R.B. Successful Reentry: The Perspective of Private Correctional Health Care Providers. J Urban Health 84, 85–98 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9131-9

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