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Private health provider ends contract with DOC

Source: By JOE FOLLICK, Gainesville Sun (FL), Aug 23, 2006

One of the state's largest privatization efforts is ending abruptly with Prison Health Services' decision to end work with the Florida Department of Corrections nearly eight years before the contract was to expire. ..... "The contract has underperformed financially," a news release states, "primarily due to a higher than anticipated volume of off-site hospitalization services.