County prison board balks at health provider’s proposal
The Butler County Prison Board wants to meet with the prison medical service provider after not acting on the provider’s proposed wage and staff increases that would add more than $300,000 to the $1.89 million contract.
PrimeCare Medical of Harrisburg submitted a proposal April 4 requesting the hiring of three employees and raising the pay for all medical staff at the prison at an annual cost of $304,803 that would be in addition to the existing contract. The board did not take action on the proposal when it met Tuesday.
The proposal calls for hiring two full-time assistant directors of nursing to separately work two eight-hour shifts at a cost of $166,400 per year and a part-time certified registered nurse practitioner/physician assistant at a cost of $27,040 per year, and asks the county to cover the cost of $31,200 in pay raises already provided to existing staff.
The new positions and pay raises combined with about $57,362 for health care benefits, insurances and shift differential pay would cost the county an additional $25,400 per month and $304,803 per year, according to the proposal.
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