Kelso Defends Efforts To Improve Prison Health Care
A recent article describing a contract between the California Prison Health Care Services and Health Net Federal Services "does not reflect the story behind the Receivership's efforts to control costs and improve the standards of health care in California's 33 state prisons," J. Clark Kelso, the state's federally appointed receiver for prison health care, writes in a Capitol Weekly opinion piece. Kelso writes that during fiscal year 2009-2010, officials "implemented substantial changes to improve quality of care while simultaneously reducing unnecessary costs," and the contract represents "another initiative designed to further improve access to health care."
- "Opinion: Prison Receiver's Goals Are Adequate Health Care, Cost-Cutting, Transparency" (Kelso, Capitol Weekly, 1/6).