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(,~ <br />POLICY 4.1.3, "TRANSPORTATION OF INMATES FOR ROUTINE MEDICAL CARE" <br />PAGE 2 of .3 <br />F. All inmates being transported outside the facility for routine medical care will be <br />required to be physically restrained with handcuffs, belly-chains and leg irons, only under <br />emergency circumstances shall restraints be removed. (unless the use of such restraints <br />shall prohibited a medical procedure). <br />G. Upon completion of the medical examination, the physician or attending medical <br />person will provide instructions that may need to be followed by jail officers to provide <br />proper care for the inmate (e.g., prescriptive medications, special housing, eta). <br />H. When any inmate is transported to be seen by an (outside of the Orange County <br />Jail physician) the deputy/detention transporting officer shall provide the physician a <br />copy of our (the) inmates "Prisoner Medical Report Form" to be completed by the <br />physician.. <br />I. Upon completion the transporting deputy/detention officer shalt not fail to return <br />the inrnate medical form back to the Orange County Jail for our facility, shift supervisor. <br />The shift supervisor shall give the inmates medical form to the facility nurse practitioner <br />"who shall read and place" the outside physician's diagnosis for treatment into the <br />inmate's medical record. <br />1. The transporting deputy/detention officer transporting the inmate shall not <br />communicate anything told to them by the physician or anything they may have read <br />when receiving the inmate's medical form from the physician. Exception to this rule shall <br />not apply when speaking to Jail Medical personnel or the .Jail Nurse Practitioner. Should <br />a deputy/detention officer discuss with anyone anything they have been told or they have <br />read with regard to an inmate's medical diagnosis they are in violation of breaching the <br />confidentiality of the inmate's medical report. <br />2. Transportation of Inmates for Emeruencv Medical Care: <br />A. The emergency transportation of any inmate to an outside health care provider will <br />be conducted only upon the recommendation of the facility nurse practitioner, EMS or <br />the jail shift supervisor, Lieutenant, Major or Sheriff. <br />B. Depending upon the situation, either an Orange County deputy will provide <br />transportation of an inmate to an outside health care provider or Emergency Medical <br />Services (EMS, or ambulance) will provide transportation. The Lieutenant will be <br />_ responsible for coordinating emergency transportation through the Orange County <br />Sheriff's Office. Should EMS be used, an Orange County Deputy will be required to <br />escort the ambulance to its destination. <br />