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Areas Achieving High Adherence with Scores of 86 Percent or More Questions 14.032 14.033
These questions pertain to the inmate ducating (medical appointment) process. The first question asks whether the prisons’ medical staff understood their prison’s priority ducating process. All prisons scored 100 percent. The second question asks whether the prisons had adequate processes to ensure that inmates moved to new cells still received their medical ducats. The average score for this question was 97 percent.
Questions 14.029 14.131 14.166
These questions pertain to medication distribution policy and administration, and to medication storage. Medical staff in the prisons’ clinics were aware of those inmates on modified programs or confined to quarters, and they had an adequate process for ensuring that those inmates received their medications. Medication nurses understood that medications were to be administered by the same licensed staff member who prepared it and on the same day. Medications stored in the clinic refrigerator were stored in a sealed container if food was present in the refrigerator. The average scores for these three questions ranged from 94 percent to 100 percent.
Question 14.023
The prisons were making the Form 7362 (Health Care Services Request Form) available to inmates. The average score for this question was 98 percent. Fifteen prisons scored 100 percent on this question.
Question 14.164
The prisons generally made areas available to ensure inmates’ privacy during the registered nurses’ face-to-face assessments and doctors’ examinations for nonemergencies. Only CMF and CRC consistently failed to do so. The average score for this question was 89 percent.
See Appendix C-13 for detailed information on questions and scores for this component.
State of California • August 2010
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