It’s part of an ongoing effort by the prisons department to address the impact of short staffing that has plagued the jails for years and has contributed to delays in medical care.
A view of Jefferson Frankford Hospital in Philadelphia. The hospital this month is to open a secure ward that can house nine incarcerated patients from the city jails.Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia, equipped to accommodate up to nine incarcerated people in need of hospital care that the city jails cannot offer.
Currently, people in the city jails who require hospital care must be accompanied by two correctional officers at their bedside at all times, court records show. The secure ward will be staffed with three to five correctional officers on twelve-hours shifts, plus one supervisor, allowing more staff to remain on-site at the jails.
A spokesperson for his department declined further comment about the Frankford Hospital ward. At Thursday’s court hearing, Resnick said he could not comment on the contempt ruling. He said the ward’s opening is part of a larger move to expand services at the Frankford Hospital campus and that discussions with potential partners about that expansion are “ongoing.”A nine-patient ward may not be enough to accommodate the number of people the jails must send out for inpatient hospital stays on a regular basis. In May of this year alone, Resnick wrote in court filings, about 30 people at the jail required “non-trauma-level care” in a hospital inpatient setting.
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