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California Correctional Health Care Services
CDCR Office of Public and Employee Communications
Telephone: (916) 691-6714
Telephone: (916) 445-4950
After Hours: (916) 813-2912
Email: Lifeline@cdcr.ca.gov
California Correctional Health Care Services
Telephone: (916) 691-6714
After Hours: (916) 813-2912
Email: Lifeline@cdcr.ca.gov
CDCR Office of Public and Employee Communications
Telephone: (916) 445-4950
Website: http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/News/about-OPEC.html
Fact & Information Sheets
Press Releases
2021
2020
2019
- PRESS RELEASE: California prison staff work to contain mumps outbreak 12/18/19
- PRESS RELEASE: Confirmed Legionnaires’ Disease at California Health Care Facility 03/26/19
- PRESS RELEASE: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation eliminates inmate copayments for health care services 02/21/19
- PRESS RELEASE: California Correctional Health Care Services Honored for System That Reduced Hospitalizations 02/14/19
2017
2016
2014
2013
- PRESS RELEASE: Health Careers Academy/CCHCS Event, 9/25/2013
- PRESS RELEASE: CCHCS and CDCR work together to address potential hunger strikes, 07/09/13
2012
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Receiver issues statement on court order regarding transition of prison medical care to state control, 09/05/12
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal receiver’s response to LAO report on inmate health care, 04/19/12
2011
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal receiver joins Secretary Cate in calling for Legislature to fund realignment and prison construction, 06/07/11
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Receiver’s Response to Supreme Court’s Brown v. Plata Decision, 05/23/11
- PRESS RELEASE: CA Prison Medical Care Showing Signs of Improvement in Round Two Inspections, 05/05/11
2010
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Receiver Appoints New Statewide Medical Executive, 10/14/10
- PRESS RELEASE: 2009 Death Rates in California’s Prisons Show Decrease, 09/07/10
- PRESS RELEASE: CDCR, Federal Receiver Sign Agreement with Stockton Leaders, 08/02/10
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver announces Health Net Agreement, 06/30/10
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver Responds to Appellate Court Ruling, 05/04/10
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver: OIG Pharmacy Report is a “Snapshot of a Changing Situation”, 04/15/10
- PRESS RELEASE: Receivership’s Response to Governor’s Proposed Budget, 01/08/10
2009
- PRESS RELEASE: Third H1N1 Inmate Death reported in CA Prisons, 12/03/09
- PRESS RELEASE: First Late Shipment of H1N1 Vaccine Received by CPHCS, 11/10/09
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver, CDCR Secretary, agree to build Health Care Facility in Stockton, 10/20/09
- PRESS RELEASE: New Contracts for Relief Prison Doctors Will Save 20% Annually, 06/24/09
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver Reacts to Ruling on State Motion to Halt Contempt Proceedings, 03/25/09
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Judge Denies Motion to Replace Receiver, 03/24/09
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver: State “Fails to Provide Any Basis for Termination of Receivership”, 02/24/09
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Court of Appeals to Hear Arguments in Plata v Schwarzenegger, 02/12/09
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Federal Receiver to Make Major Announcement, 02/06/09
- PRESS RELEASE: Appointment of Ms. Elaine Bush as the Receiver’s Chief Deputy, 02/04/09
- PRESS RELEASE: New Reports Dispel Concerns about the Receiver’s Construction Program, 02/03/09
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Results of Receiver-Requested Audit by BSA into IT Purchases to be Released, 01/29/09
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Results of BSA Investigation Requested by Federal Receiver to be Released, 01/22/09
2008
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Prison Health Care Receiver Unveils New Building Plan Summary, 11/11/08
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Federal Judge to Decide on State’s Motion Asking to Stay Delivery of $250 Million, 11/06/08
- MEDIA ADVISORY: State Under Orders to Give Judge a Plan to Pay $250Million Down Payment, 10/24/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Judge Order – Contempt, 10/08/08
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Contempt Hearing, 10/06/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Receiver Responds to Governor and Controller’s Opposition to Contempt Motion, 09/22/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver to Court: Prisoner Deaths Down Significantly, 09/15/08
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Federal Receiver to Make Major Announcement, 08/13/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver seeks $8 Billion Court Order for Construction, 08/13/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Statement from Receiver Kelso Disagreeing with Legal Conclusion of Governors Office, 08/01/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Letter to Dan Dunmoyer and Michael Genest, 08/01/08
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Federal Receiver to sign “Notice to Proceed” to plan $2.5 Billion of Facilities, 07/10/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver’s 8th Quarterly Report Released, 06/17/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Judge Approves Receiver’s Plan of Action, 06/16/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Federal Receiver Kelso’s Reaction to Defeat of SB 1665, 05/29/08
- MEDIA ADVISORY: Federal Receiver Clark Kelso will be available to Media Following the Senate vote on SB 1665, 05/27/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Prison Healthcare Receiver Releases Draft Strategic Plan, 03/11/08
- PRESS RELEASE: Judge Appoints New Prison Health Care Receiver, 01/23/08
2007
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver’s Pharmacy Clean Up Shows Progress. Two Contract Pharmacists Charged With Fraud, Theft Of Taxpayer Money And Prison Narcotics, 12/17/07
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver Releases Updated Plan Of Action For Constitutional Prison Medical Care, 11/16/07
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver’s Efforts To Improve Medical Care Felt At Prisons Statewide, 09/26/07
- PRESS RELEASE: San Quentin Under The Microscope, 08/02/07
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver Details Substantial Progress Addressing Prison Medical System Crisis, 06/20/07
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver releases Plan of Action for constitutional care, 05/10/07
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver announces coordination with other federal class action cases among top priorities for prison system clean up, 03/20/07
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver raises prison physician salaries, 02/23/07
2006
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver’s changes to prison medical care save California tax payers millions, 12/05/06
- PRESS RELEASE: Judge grants Receiver’s request to raise salaries for prison medical staff, 10/17/06
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver announces next steps to improve prison medical care, 09/19/06
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver moves to raise salaries for prison medical staff, 09/12/06
- PRESS RELEASE: Receiver releases first report on CA prison medical care, 07/05/06