Specifications include, but are not limited to: Cumberland County is soliciting proposals for a qualified healthcare contractor to provide comprehensive medical and dental health services to persons in the custody of the Cumberland County Detention Center (also referred to as “CCDC” or “Jail”) located at 204 Gillespie Street, Fayetteville, NC 28301. In meeting the health care needs of a growing inmate population, the County of Cumberland currently provides health care through the Cumberland County Health Department in order to provide necessary and adequate medical, eye, dental and mental health services to inmates within a detention environment. There are no current Court mandates or other legal interventions in force at the CCDC. Medical services in a detention environment present unique challenges not encountered by practitioners elsewhere. On occasion, there may be an incompatibility between medical and detention guidelines; conflicts related to medical care should be resolved, as far as practical, in favor of medicine. At the same time, the healthcare provider must be part of the CCDC’s detention team. Vendor shall be responsible for all medical care for all inmates at the Jail. The term "medical care" also includes both “mental health care” as well as "dental care". This responsibility of Vendor for the medical care of an inmate commences with the commitment of the inmate to the custody of the administration of the Jail and ends with the discharge (or temporary release) of the inmate from the custody of the County at the Jail.
