and, an improved electronic health records system. “By its nature providing quality care in correctional institutions is a significant challenge. Lawyers for Centene Corp., an embattled prison healthcare company, suspect that rapper and businessman Jay-Z is using Delaware's business court to push for reforms at …
Health care is one of a number of issues DeMatteis has faced in the high-profile post. The lawyer and former aide to U.S. Sen. Joe Biden has made a series of moves aimed at dealing with long-running issues that came to a head with an uprising at the Vaughn Correctional Institution that left a prison guard dead.Northerly was brought in as interim CEO following the retirement of the longtime CEO of the organization.The state has moved some prisoners to Pennsylvania.
"So bad is the medical care at Parchman that inmates have resorted to lighting fires in conditions of total confinement, where escape from smoke and flames is impossible, simply to draw attention to emergent medical issues occurring in the housing units," the press release from Roc Nation stated.The case, which could turn Delaware's normally dry business court into a forum for social justice during an upcoming September trial, is one of several legal offenses that seeks to draw attention to what critics call the "barbaric" state of prisons in the Gulf Coast state. It has attracted considerable national attention, from publications ranging from Bloomberg to TMZ, in part, because an attorney with Roc Nation's Mississippi class action also is working on Wood's lawsuit. Vienna, VA-based Centurion, LLC is owned by Centene Corporation of St. Louis, MO, a multi-national company that provides integrated healthcare services to government-sponsored and commercial healthcare programs across all 50 U.S. states and abroad, and contracts with other healthcare and commercial organizations to provide a variety of specialty healthcare services.“It is with a heavy heart and mixed emotions that Connections Community Support Programs withdraws from this collaborative endeavor with DOC that has significantly benefited the citizens of Delaware for the last 8 years,” said Dr. William F. Northey, Jr., interim CEO. "Following arguments Thursday, Delaware judge Vice Chancellor Paul Fioravanti said Centene's legal quest to prove its theory was not a "fishing expedition," but ruled that its lawyers from the firm, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom, could not subpoena Jay-Z's entertainment company, Roc Nation, nor its attorneys.In arguments in Delaware Chancery Court Thursday, the attorneys said there is reason to believe that Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter is the silent financier behind a lawsuit to force their client to hand over internal documents about the provision of care in Mississippi prisons.Centene, a $39 billion Missouri-based healthcare conglomerate, controls a subsidiary that contracts with prisons in Mississippi and at least a dozen other states, including Delaware, to provide medical care.A spokesman for Roc Nation did not immediately respond to a request to comment. "Even if the plaintiff is able to establish a proper purpose, (the law) allows this court in its discretion to provide any limitation or conditions with reference to the inspection," Fioravanti said.Lawyers for Centene Corp., an embattled prison healthcare company, suspect that rapper and businessman Jay-Z is using Delaware's business court to push for reforms at Mississippi prisons.Jay-Z and Roc Nation has been among the chief critics. Centurion of Delaware. … After a review process, the DOC has awarded both contracts to Centurion of Delaware, LLC. Delaware Provider Manual (PDF) Delaware Billing Reference (PDF) Hospital/Ancillary Provider Credentialing Application (PDF) Physician Credentialing Application (PDF) Disclosure of Ownership Form (PDF) Centurion of Florida.
"Fioravanti noted that Wood's Delaware case is not typical. That state is seeing a decline in the number of inmates.Connections, one of Delaware’s largest nonprofits, has provided DOC’s medical healthcare since 2014 and behavioral health services since 2012.Last summer, Commissioner DeMatteis initiated an independent review by ChristianaCare of its correctional health care system.The department , through its Bureau of Healthcare, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, is responsible for contracting medical and behavioral health services in all of its prison and work release and violation of probation) facilities, as well as providing behavioral health services to individuals on supervised probation.Connections is out as the health care vendor for the Delaware Department of Correction after recent controversies over its practices.Centurion provides healthcare services to state, county, and municipal correctional systems in 15 states, including neighboring Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Centurion provides healthcare services to state, county, and municipal correctional systems in 15 states, including neighboring Maryland and Pennsylvania. Centurion employs approximately 9,000+ clinical, managerial, and administrative professionals nationwide. Wood says those failures have hurt company shareholders as Centurion has been forced to "defend numerous lawsuits—many of which appear to have been resolved through financial settlements.