{"id":1837,"date":"2017-06-26T14:49:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2017-06-26T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T14:50:08","slug":"board-approves-controversial-contract-for-inmate-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1837","title":{"rendered":"Board approves controversial contract for inmate medical care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-supervisors-renew-contract-for-inmate-medical-psychiatric-care\/2017\/06\/23\/d76a752a-580f-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.a55b9a4a9dfd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approved a two-year, $4.7\u00a0million contract<\/a> with Correct Care Solutions to provide medical and psychiatric services to inmates at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Nashville-based company has been providing those services at the jail for more than a decade. However, several supervisors expressed frustration with the selection process, saying they had little choice but to stay with the current provider, even though two competing firms submitted proposals with lower price tags.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisors also questioned whether the process of reviewing the proposals had been tainted because Correct Care Solutions has made campaign contributions to Sheriff Michael L. Chapman (R), who is responsible for overseeing the contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-supervisors-renew-contract-for-inmate-medical-psychiatric-care\/2017\/06\/23\/d76a752a-580f-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.a55b9a4a9dfd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post, June 25, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors on Thursday approved a two-year, $4.7\u00a0million contract with Correct Care Solutions to provide medical and psychiatric services to inmates at the Loudoun County Adult Detention Center. The Nashville-based company has been providing those services at the jail for more than a decade. However, several supervisors expressed frustration with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=1837\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Board approves controversial contract for inmate medical care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,37,36,24,26,3,118,35],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-budget","tag-election","tag-health-care","tag-law-enforcement","tag-loudoun-county","tag-mental-health","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}