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The BOP should develop policies or formal procedures regarding timelines for scheduling medical appointments for inmates and documenting and tracking the scheduling of such appointments. Such policies or formal procedures should explain the designations of routine, urgent, and emergent; provide expectations for when such designations are used and how quickly orders with such designations should be completed; and set forth processes for monitoring the status of orders and notifying the ordering provider of such status.
Recommendation Number
1
Date Issued
Status
Resolved
Component
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Report
Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Conditions of Confinement and Medical Treatment of Frederick Mervin Bardell and Related Representations to the Court, Upon Referral by Senior U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr.