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State Hires New Health Care Provider For Prisons

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The New Mexico Corrections Department has awarded a four-year contract to provide medical services to prison inmates to a new company. 

The Santa Fe New Mexican reports that Corizon Correctional Healthcare notified employees this week that the company won't get another four-year contract. Instead state officials have selected St. Louis-based Centurion LLC as the prison system's new health care provider.

State officials rejected both Corizon and Wexford Health Sources during a six-month bidding contest for the contract. Corizon replaced Wexford in 2007 and both companies have come under scrutiny over the quality of health care services they provided to the state's 7,000 prison inmates.

A Corizon spokeswoman says the company has been honored to provide care for New Mexico's incarcerated for the last nine years.

Information from: The Santa Fe New Mexican. 

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