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

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3.2 Regular Reports by SHP to County SHP shall provide to County, on a date and in a form mutually acceptable to SHP and County, monthly statistical reports relating to services rendered under this Agreement. 3.3 Inmate Information. Subject to the applicable North Carolina law, in order to assist SHP in providing the best possible health care services to inmates, County will provide SHP with information pertaining to inmates that SHP and County mutually identify as reasonable and necessary for SHP to adequately perform its obligations hereunder. 3.4 SHP Records Available to County with Limitations on Disclosure SHP shall make available to County, at County's request, records, documents and other papers relating to the direct delivery of health care services to inmates hereunder. County understands that written operating policies and procedures employed by SHP in the performance of its obligations hereunder are proprietary in nature and will remain the property of SHP and shall not be disclosed without written consent. Information concerning such may not, at any time, be used, distributed, copied or otherwise utilized by County, except in connection with the delivery of health care services hereunder, or as permitted or required by law, unless such disclosure is approved in advance writing by SHP. Proprietary information developed by SHP shall remain the property of SHP. 3.5 County Records Available to SHP with Limitations on Disclosure During the term of this Agreement and for a reasonable time thereafter, County will provide SHP, at SHP's request, County's records relating to the provision of health care services to inmates as may be reasonably requested by SHP or as are pertinent to the investigation or defense of any claim related to SHP's conduct. Consistent with applicable law, County will make available to SHP such inmate medical records as are maintained by County, hospitals and other outside health care providers involved in the care or treatment of inmates (to the extent County has any control over those records) as SHP may reasonably request. Any such information provided by County to SHP that County considers confidential shall be kept confidential by SHP and shall not, except as may be required by law, be distributed to any third party without the prior written approval of County. ARTICLE IV: SECURITY 4.1 General. SHP and County understand that adequate security services are essential and necessary for the safety of the agents, employees and subcontractors of SHP as well as for the security of inmates and County's staff, consistent with the correctional setting. County will take all reasonable steps to provide sufficient security to enable SHP to safely and adequately provide the health care services described in this Agreement. It is expressly understood by County and SHP that the provision of security and safety for the SHP personnel is a continuing precondition of SHP's obligation to provide its services in a routine, timely, and proper fashion.