Office of Clinical Services

This unit oversees a health care delivery system that provides comprehensive primary, secondary, specialty health and hospitalization services to the incarcerated individuals within all DPSCS facilities. The healthcare system provides medical, dental, and pharmacy services consistent with generally accepted standards of care through competitively bid contractual relationships with private healthcare providers having expertise in their respective health disciplines. Direct service clinical practitioners are located on site, in numbers and type, consistent with the needs of the population. The services delivered by these practitioners and the performance of the private healthcare providers are continually monitored by the staff of the Office of Clinical Services and Incarcerated Individual Health to ensure contract compliance and quality of care.

Office of Mental Health Services

The medical services unit provides care to prevent illness, promote wellness and provide nursing services to our incarcerated persons through an effective and efficient health care system. The medical and nursing services are a part of a multi-vendor system of care in DPSCS under the medical contractor that works with other primary contractors that provide dental, pharmaceutical and mental health services. The medical contractor also works collaboratively with other departmental programs such as social work, psychology, case management, and substance use disorder program.