Health care company Advanced Correctional Healthcare Inc. will relocate its offices to Franklin, according to an April 21 announcement from the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development.
ACH will move from Peoria, Illinois, to 720 Cool Springs Blvd., Franklin, bringing 58 new jobs and investing approximately $2.5 million in the area.
The company is the largest county jail health care provider in the U.S. and operates in a variety of correctional facilities such as county jails, juvenile detention centers, mental health units, work release centers and drug rehabilitation centers, according to the TDECD.
The company cited the area s lower cost of living in relation to Illinois as incentive to move to the area.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Two New Mexico companies will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlements following claims brought by the Department of Justice on behalf of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Centurion Correctional Healthcare New Mexico and Albuquerque Health Services will each pay more than $200,000 each for separate alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act, according to DOJ spokesman Scott Howell.
Howell said Centurion Correctional Healthcare agreed to a $215,000 settlement stemming from claims that the company purchased and dispensed controlled substances at the Northeast New Mexico Detention Facility in Clayton for nearly a month after the company’s registration with the DEA expired on Oct. 31, 2019.
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PARIS The pieces are falling into place as Oxford County converts its 72-hour holding facility to a full-service jail.
County commissioner Thursday approved bids for food services and medical services, that last two major items required to make the switch.
During a statewide jail consolidation in 2008, directed by former Gov. John Baldacci, the jail was turned into a 72-hour holding facility. The county boards its inmates at Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset. It cost the county $520,000 in 2020 to board those prisoners. In 2019, that cost was $777,500.
The county budgeted $340,000 to cover the first six months of 2021 until the planned July opening.