Inmate Professional Health Services

The government authority located in Atlanta, Georgia is seeking a vendor to provide routine integrated medical, behavioral health services, and emergency treatment of health problems for detainees. The agency is attempting to deliver timely, appropriate care consistent with correctional healthcare best practices while reducing the risk of harm to detainees and staff through adequate assessment, intervention, and monitoring. The selected vendor must also provide staff training and consultation to enhance the safe management of detainees with health and mental health needs, and coordinate with designated external partners for specialty clinics as required. The scope of work covers nursing services and mental health clinician services. Nursing services require conducting intake medical screenings, routine sick-call, medication administration, chronic care support, wound care, health education, infection control, and emergency response. These nursing operations must run under the clinical oversight of a Director of Nursing who is responsible for nursing practice standards, shift coverage, and coordination with mental health. Mental health clinician services require licensed clinical social workers, counselors, or psychiatric nurse practitioners to deliver assessments, short-term counseling, care plans, and approved group interventions. Eligibility is restricted to onshore organizations based in the United States. The agency requires the vendor to perform the work offsite and carry out the work within the vendor's own office premises. The agency is currently looking for proposals to determine the budget, and the source document does not specify further evaluation criteria or key dates.