Jail medical provider subject of lawsuits.(news)
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The jail health care provider that hired a psychiatrist who lost his license in another state has been the subject of more than 60 lawsuits in Southern Nevada claiming everything from medical negligence to wrongful death. In the latest lawsuit, filed last week against EMSA Correctional Care, a woman four months pregnant said she languished for days at the Clark County Detention Center with severe cramps and vaginal bleeding. Despite the pain becoming too severe for the woman to move, jail medical staff paid her little attention and then wrongly diagnosed her with a urinary tract infection, according to the lawsuit filed in Clark County District Court. She complained the medication didn’t work. On March 16, 2000, she sat down on a jail toilet to change her bloodied sanitary napkin, and her stillborn fetus fell into the toilet, the complaint said. Prison Health Services Inc., which acquired EMSA Correctional Care in January 1999, has not filed a response to the complaint. Officials with the Tennessee-based company were unavailable for… |