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Thomas Ouellette
Madison County Sheriff John Beeman says the jail's previous medical service did not offer 24 hour on site services from midnight till 6 a.m.. Jail staff was on their own. Beeman says that inmates would wait until the medical staff was gone to report various aches and pains, without any certified doctors at the jail. The officer's only option was to take the inmate to the hospital.

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John Beeman
But that happens all the time, and not especially over the scenes in the Madison County Community Correctional Center. Chest pains is a favorite because you really can't address those as a non-medical person, so they get that we've had escapes from not from the jail side, but from the seaside side where they'll jump right out of the ambulance enroute to the hospital, a stop sign.

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Thomas Ouellette
Beeman says that when the medical provider changed to comprehensive correctional care, he saw immediate improvement, like the number of emergency room visits, which went from 7 in 1 weekend to two over the course of several months. He adds that while the new provider is more expensive than the previous one, they help undercut the additional cost by offering cost saving services such as their own pharmacy.

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Thomas Ouellette
The contract with Comprehensive Correctional Care has already been approved by Madison County officials. The county council still needs to vote on additional funding of about $300,000 to pay out that contract. In Anderson, Thomas Ouellette IPR news.