2009-072 Sheriff - Southern Health Partners, Inc. to provide medical services for inmates

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4 Inmates, for example, on any sort of temporary release or escape, including, but not limited to inmates temporarily released for the purpose of attending funerals or other family emergencies, inmates on escape status, inmates on pass, parole or supervised custody who do not sleep in the Jail at night, shall not be included in the daily population count, and shall not be the responsibility of SHP with respect to the payment or the furnishing of their health care services. Persons in the physical custody of other police or other penal jurisdictions at the request of County, by Court order or otherwise, are likewise excluded from the population count and are not the responsibility of SHP for the furnishing or payment of health care services. 1.8 Elective Medical Care. SHP is not responsible for providing elective medical care to inmates, unless expressly contracted for by the County. For purposes of the Agreement, "elective medical care" means medical care which, if not provided, would not, in the reasonable medical opinion of SHP's Medical Director, cause the inmate's health to deteriorate or cause definite harm to the inmate's well-being. Any referral of inmates for elective medical care must be reviewed by County prior to provision of such services. 1.9 Transportation Services. To the extent any inmate requires off-site non- emergency health care treatment including, but not limited to, hospitalization care and specialty services, for which care and services SHP is obligated to arrange under this Agreement, County will, upon prior request by SHP, its agents, employees or contractors, provide transportation as reasonably available provided that such transportation is scheduled in advance. When medically necessary, SHP shall arrange all emergency ambulance transportation of inmates in accordance with Section 1.4 of this Agreement. ARTICLE II: PERSONNEL. 2.1 Staffin SHP shall provide medical and support personnel reasonably necessary for the rendering of health care services to inmates at the Jail as described in and required by this Agreement. County and SHP agree that the on-site nurse staffing plan will consist of twelve regular{y scheduled hours per day, seven days per week, for an average of eighty-four hours per week. The SHP physician medical director will visit the Jail no less than three times each week. As requested by the SHP nurse manager, the physician medical director may visit the Jail in addition to the scheduled three visits each week. SHP will designate a nurse with the responsibility of providing on-call telephone assistance to Jail officers during hours when a nurse is not scheduled to be on-site at