STATEMENT FROM NAPHCARE Regarding Recent Coverage of Naphcare's Healthcare Services for the Alabama Department of Corrections
NaphCare proudly serves the men and women in Alabama's correctional system, and is well-positioned to do so as a company founded and based in Alabama. When the Alabama Department of Corrections needed a partner to stabilize healthcare services following a failed contract, NaphCare stepped in because we believe every person in custody deserves access to quality medical care, and because we believe the men and women who work to provide that care under demanding conditions deserve support as well.
Providing healthcare inside a correctional facility is among the most challenging work in American medicine. The patients NaphCare serves typically arrive without insurance, without an established relationship with a primary care physician, and often carrying complex, untreated chronic conditions, both physical and mental, that have gone unaddressed for years. The facilities in which we work were not designed as healthcare delivery environments. Security requirements, population instability, and infrastructure limitations create conditions that no community health system faces. Our nurses, physicians, mental health professionals, and pharmacists navigate those conditions every day because the patients in their care have nowhere else to turn.
