Jail Healthcare Staffing in the US Southeast: a Cross-Sectional Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Jails annually incarcerate millions of people with health problems, yet jail healthcare services have not been well described.

Objective

To describe jail healthcare staffing.

Design

Phone-administered survey conducted October 2020 to May 2021.

Setting

County jails in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama.

Participants

Jail personnel "most knowledgeable" about jail healthcare.

Main measures

Weekly on-site healthcare coverage rate (hours per 100 incarcerated person-weeks [IPWs]) by personnel type; telemedicine rates and detention officers' healthcare duties.

Key results

Survey response rate was 73% (254/346). Among surveyed jails, 71% had on-site non-psychiatric providers (e.g., physicians, physician assistants) (med

SUBMITTER: Rosen DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10973318 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature