MEDIKO offers customized cost effective solutions to facilitate balance among the clinical leadership, administrative control, and security needs of your organization
MEDIKO maintains this balance by providing physician leadership, clinical guidelines, and training, tailored to your facility. The key component to the success of this process is the collaboration between the facility leadership and MEDIKO’s customized approach.
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Direct experience in corrections results in solutions that fit the unique challenges of corrections health care
“Highly motivated and appreciably cost-sensitive, its leadership and staff demonstrate a clear understanding of the correctional environment and the unique health care challenges presented.”
-Col. Bruce Conover (Superintendant, Northwestern Regional Adult Detention Center)
Effective negotiation strategies
“Dr. Ofogh has reduced our pharmacy cost by over 50 percent, emergency room trips cost by 80 percent and negotiated lab service contract rates for our Jail Authority which are approximately 70% less than what most other jails pay for lab services.”
- Lee Noble (Superintendant, Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority)
Value partnering
“… understands the importance of merging medical and operations procedures. He has develop extensive protocols for medical staff and supervisory security or treatment staff to provide consistency in our medical service delivery. …the best I have ever seen in my 35 years of working in prison and jails.”
- Lee Noble (Superintendant, Southwest Virginia Regional Jail Authority)
Commitment to education to assure consistency
“Medical competence and leadership have been apparent. After recruiting our primary physician, Dr. Ofogh worked one-on-one on-site to assure our new physician had a firm understanding of Virginia Department of Corrections standards and the unique nature of practice in our Super- Max.”
-Daniel Braxton (Previous Warden – Red Onion State Prison)
Improving access while reducing cost
“Ordering patterns for laboratory and medications were modified to deliver significant reductions in our medical operational costs without adverse impact upon the inmates.”
-Daniel Braxton (Previous Warden – Red Onion State Prison)
“We feel that by changing medical providers we have not only saved funds in a tight budget, but are also providing better medical care and coverage.”
- Sheriff L.J. Ayers (Amherst County Sheriff's Office)
Risk and liability reduction
“The BRRJA has seen a reduction in the number of grievances and complaints filed by inmates requesting mental health services…also notice a reduction in the number of confrontations between inmates and Jail Officers.”
-Chris Webb (Retired Superintendent, Blue Ridge Regional Jail Authority)
Cost effective quality
“…assisted the facility staff in developing and maintaining a comprehensive system of providing health care in a custodial environment without compromising the quality of care rendered.”
- Major Sheryl Castellaw (Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail)
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