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DEPARTMENT
OF
CORRECTION
DIRECTIVE NUMBER:
401.06.03.029
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SUBJECT:
Diagnostic Services
Adopted: 06-01-95
Revised: 11-02-98
Reformatted: 02-2001
INSTITUTIONAL
SERVICES
DIVISION
01.00.00. POLICY OF THE DEPARTMENT
It is the policy of the Idaho Board of Correction that the Department of Correction
ensure proper medical, dental, psychiatric and psychological services and treatment be
provided to inmates incarcerated under its jurisd iction, including those state-sentenced
offenders held in non-IDOC facilities.
02.00.00. TABLE OF CONTENTS
01.00.00. POLICY OF THE DEPARTMENT
02.00.00. TABLE OF CONTENTS
03.00.00. REFERENCES
04.00.00. DEFINITIONS
05.00.00. PROCEDURE
03.00.00. REFERENCES
Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions, Third Edition, Standards 3 -4330.
Standards for Health Services in Prisons, P -29.
04.00.00. DEFINITIONS
Facility Health Authority: The on-site Health Authority or senior health staff assigned.
Medical Authority: Idaho Department of Correction Health Services Chief.
Medical Director: A physician (M.D.) either employed by the Idaho Department of
Correction or the physician in charge if medical services are privatized.
Regional Health Manager: The individual assigned as the primary manager who is
administratively responsible for the delivery of medical services if health services are
privatized.
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05.00.00. PROCEDURE
The Facility Health Authority shall ensure that necessary diagnostic and consultant
services are made available to residents, even if access requires transporting the
inmates to community providers.
The following diagnostic services shall be available at all IDOC institutional
medical departments on site:
Multiple-test dipstick urinalysis.
Finger-stick blood glucose testing devices.
Peak-flow testing, hand-held.
Hematocrit testing device.
Hemoccult testing capabilities for occult blood in stool.
Blood pressure cuffs (spygmomonometers).
Ophthalmoscopes.
Otoscope.
Stethoscopes.
Other accessory diagnostic small instruments considered standard in all
civilian medical clinics.
Slides and slip covers.
Pregnancy test kits (women’s units).
When diagnostic services are provided on site, a procedure
manual, testing devices, and calibration logs are to be developed
and kept current.
Diagnostic services will meet applicable state and federal law.
The following diagnostic services shall be made available in local communities
located near each institution:
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Community-based resources for the support of diagnostic services needed to
provide an acceptable, standard level of care to inmates shall be available to the
medical staff at all IDOC institutions and shall include, but are not limited to, the
following:
Hospital-based radiology departments including nuclear medicine
Hospital-based departments of infectious disease
Regional public health centers
Local and regional health laboratories for cytology, infectious disease
investigation and immunological studies
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Administrator, Institutional Services Division Date