Correctional Managed Health Care
Texas Correctional Facility Health Care » Future
Correctional Managed Health Care in Texas is facing many of the same challenges as other correctional systems. These challenges are being addressed by the legislatively mandated Correctional Managed Health Care Committee.
Some of the challenges are as follows:
- Maintaining positive clinical improvement
- strengthening quality of care monitoring
- enhancing prevention activities
- Serving an aging offender population
- increased prevalence of chronic diseases
- need for structured, preventive health activity
- Managing HIV therapies
- testing, medication compliance, viral load testing issues
- Managing Hepatitis C
- Addressing the financial impact of rapidly evolving therapies
- Increasing our focus on outcome studies
- Addressing professional nursing shortages and developing staff compensation structures