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Rikers Health Services Being Assumed by HHC

By MARK TOOR
Posted 6/15/15

The city Health and Hospitals Corporation will take over health care on Rikers Island, Mayor de Blasio announced June 10 as the Department of Investigation released a damning report on the private company that has been the main provider of such services to inmates.

A number of employees of Corizon Health Inc. “have failed to properly provide the medical and mental-health services for which the city contracted,” according to the DOI report.

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