The Maryland Experience: Central Booking and the Baltimore City Detention Center— Medical Intake and Evaluation Process
Author: Robert Taylor, BS CCHP.
Source: Volume 05, Number 02, January/February 2004 , pp.5-8(4)
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Abstract:
In 1996 as a healthcare administrator in Baltimore, I was assigned the task of operationally defining the entire medical reception and intake evaluation process for the new booking center and jail. To preface this the detention center was accustomed to the detainee being arrested, taken to a precinct, identified, given bail review, and then brought to the detention facility upon being remanded to custody awaiting trial. These numbers involved 30,000 to 33,000 detainees revolving through the doors on an annual basis after being in the precinct for an average of 72 hours. The new booking center was intentionally designed not to deliver direct care during a person’s stay as he or she was to be there no more than 72 hours.Keywords: Early intervention, sick call, roaming intake teams, admission screening, medication delivery, Darlogix
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