Reports & Court Orders
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Turnaround Plan of Action
Receiver’s Turnaround Plan of Action
(formerly called Receiver’s Strategic Plan)
- Receiver’s Turnaround Plan of Action, 06/06/08
- Order Approving Receiver’s Turnaround Plan of Action, 06/16/08
Receiver’s Draft Strategic Plan
- Receiver’s Draft Strategic Plan, 04/21/08
- Receiver’s Draft Strategic Plan, 03/11/08
- Receiver’s Strategic Plan Goal 5, 04/14/08
- Presentation to the Legislature, 04/14/08
- Options Report with Appendices, 04/14/08
Responses to Receiver’s Draft Strategic Plan
- Input from John Zweifler, M.D., M.P.H., 03/19/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from John Zweifler, M.D., M.P.H., 04/23/08
- Input from Charles Watson, 03/12/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Charles Watson, 04/24/08
- Input from Mr. Alvarez, Ph.D, 03/17/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Mr. Alvarez, Ph.D, 04/24/08
- Input from Larry, 03/17/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Larry, 04/24/08
- Input from Mr./Ms. Prunyan, 03/17/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Mr./Ms. Prunyan, 04/24/08
- Input from Rhonda Sherrer-Daley, 03/18/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Rhonda Sherrer-Daley, 04/17/08
- Input from Sanjay S. Rao, M.D., 03/21/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Sanjay S. Rao, M.D., 04/23/08
- Input from Joanne M. Brown, J.D., M.S.W., 03/28/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Joanne M. Brown, J.D., M.S.W., 04/23/08
- Input from Gary B. Smalling, 03/29/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Gary B. Smalling, 04/18/08
- Input from Dr. Greifinger, 04/03/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Dr. Greifinger, 04/24/08
- Input from Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Rosen, Bien & Galvan, LLP
- Input from Jerry Marcotte and Kathy Papalia, 04/06/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Jerry Marcotte and Kathy Papalia, 04/23/08
- Input from Anna Moore, LVN, 04/07/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Anna Moore, LVN, 04/23/08
- Input from Ms. Sarah Damerow, 04/08/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Ms. Sarah Damerow, 04/24/08
- Input from Dr. Ron Shansky, 04/08/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Dr. Ron Shansky, 04/24/08
- Input from Nancy Lyerla and Rionna Jones, 04/10/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Nancy Lyerla and Rionna Jones, 04/24/08
- Input from Bill Woodruff, 04/10/08
- Receiver’s Response #1 to Input from Bill Woodruff, 04/23/08
- Input from Bill Woodruff, 04/10/08
- Receiver’s Response #2 to Input from Bill Woodruff, 04/28/08
- Input from Mr. Jack Burrows, 04/10/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Mr. Jack Burrows, 04/24/08
- Input from John F. Tighe, 04/11/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from John F. Tighe
- Input from Fama, 04/14/08
- Receiver’s Response #1 to Input from Fama, 04/23/08
- Input from Fama, 04/14/08
- Receiver’s Response #2 to Input from Fama, 04/21/08
- Input from Fama, 04/14/08
- Receiver’s Response #3 to Input from Fama, 04/24/08
- Input from Fama, 04/14/08
- Receiver’s Response #4 to Input from Fama, 04/28/08
- Input from Lambert N. King, MD, PhD, FACP, 04/15/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Lambert N. King, MD, PhD, FACP, 04/23/08
- Input from Patrick J. Glover, 04/28/08
- Receiver’s Response to Input from Patrick J. Glover, 04/28/08
Receiver’s Plan of Action
- CPR Plan of Action, Table of Contents, 11/15/07
- CPR Plan of Action, Part 1, 11/15/07
- CPR Plan of Action, Part 2, 11/15/07
- Custody Access Initiative Appendices 1 – 5, 11/15/07
- Facility Improvement Construction Initiative Appendix 1, 11/15/07
- Facility Improvement Construction Initiative Appendix 2, 11/15/07
- Fiscal Services Initiative Appendices 1 – 2, 4 – 5, 11/15/07
- Fiscal Services Initiative Appendix 3, 11/15/07
- Health Care Initiative Appendices 1 – 5, 11/15/07
- Information Technology Initiative Appendices 1 – 7, 11/15/07
- Maxor Pharmacy Services Initiative Appendices 1 – 2, 11/15/07
- San Quentin Pilot Project Initiative Appendix 1, 11/15/07
- Specialty Services Pilot Initiative Appendices 1 – 4, 11/15/07
- Contract Invoice Process Initiative Appendix 1, 11/15/07
- 5000 Medical Bed Project Initiative Appendix 1, 11/15/07
- 5000 Medical Bed Project Initiative Appendices 2 – 3, Part 1, 11/15/07
- 5000 Medical Bed Project Initiative Appendices 2 – 3, Part 2, 11/15/07
- Clinical Quality Measurement and Evaluation Initiative Appendix 1, 11/15/07
- Clinical Operations Initiative Appendix 1, 11/15/07
- Clinical Initiative Appendices 1 – 3 and 5, 11/15/07
- Clinical Initiative Appendix 4, Part 1 of 2, 11/15/07
- Clinical Initiative Appendix 4, Part 2 of 2, 11/15/07
- CPR Plan of Action, 05/10/07
- Receiver’s Report Re: Plan of Action, 05/10/07
- Notice of Filing of Receiver’s Plan of Action, 05/10/07
- Notice of Motion and Receiver’s Motion For Order Modifying Stipulated Injunction, 05/10/07
- Declaration of John Hagar in Support of Receiver’s Motion, 05/10/07
Tri-Annual Reports
Receiver’s Most Recent Tri-Annual Report
Mental Health Reports
- 2022 Annual Report on Suicides and Suicide Prevention Efforts in the CDCR
- 2021 Annual Report on Suicides in the CDCR
- 2020 Annual Report on Suicides in the CDCR
- 2017-2019 Aggregate Suicide Report
- 2019 Report on Suicide Prevention and Response within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- 2018 Report on Suicide Prevention and Response within the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
- Annual Report of Suicides in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016
- Annual Report on Suicides in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation January 1, 2015 – December 31, 2015
Court Orders
On this dropdown, key Plata court orders are listed in chronological order. The format of these documents has been modified for web accessibility. Original documents filed in Plata v. Brown are publicly available at https://www.pacer.gov/.
2018
2015
2014
- Ninth Circuit Opinion Re: 120 Day Notice for Disclosure of Experts, 05/28/2014
- Order Replacing Judge Karlton, 04/18/2014
- Order Appointing Compliance Officer, 04/09/2014
- Order Re: Receiver’s Triannual Reports, 03/27/2014
- Order Re: Court Experts, 03/11/2014
- Opinion Re: Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part Defendants’ Request for Extension, 02/10/2014
- Opinion Re: Extension, 02/10/2014
2013
- Supreme Court Denying Appeal, 10/17/2013
- Order Granting Joint Request for Authorizing Refeeding, 08/19/2013
- Three Judge Panel Denying Motion for Stay, 07/03/2013
- Order Granting Plaintiffs’ Motion for Relief RE: Valley Fever at Pleasant Valley and Avenal State Prisons, 6/24/2013
- Three Judge Panel Opinion and Order Requiring Defendants to Implement Amended Plan, 06/20/2013
- Notice of Filing of Report and Response of Receiver Regarding Receiver’s Motion of RE Valley Fever, 05/01/2013
- Three-Judge Panel Order Requiring List of Proposed Population Reduction Measures, 04/11/2013
- Three Judge Panel Opinion and Order Denying Defendants’ Motion To Vacate Or Modify Population Reduction Order, 04/11/2013
- Receiver’s Response to Defendant’s Objections to Receiver’s 22nd Report, 02/22/2013
- Order Re: Responses to Defendants’ Objections to Receiver’s 22nd Report , 02/14/2013
- Order Re: Defendants’ January 7, 2013 Motion to Vacate or Modify, 01/29/2013
2012
- Order Modifying September 5, 2012 Order, 10/17/2012
- Order Re: Receivership Transition Plan and Expert Evaluations, 09/05/2012
- Order Proposing Receivership Transition Plan, 05/30/2012
- Order to Meet and Confer Re Post Receivership Planning, 01/17/2012
2011
2010
- 9th Cir Opinion Affirming Order Denying Defendants’ Motion to Terminate Receivership, 04/03/2010
- Order to Reduce Prison Population, 01/12/2010
2009
- Three Judge Panel Opinion and Order, 08/04/2009
- Order Denying Defendants’ Motion to Terminate Receivership & Construction Plans, 03/24/2009
- Order Re 8th Supplemental Contracting Waiver, 01/30/2009
2008
- Order Granting Waiver Re RCEA Salary Grids, 11/03/2008
- Order Joining Controller as Defendant, 07/10/2008
- Order Approving Policies Re MD Clinical Competency, 07/09/2008
- Order Re 6th Supplemental Contracting Waiver, 07/02/2008
- Order Re 5th Supplemental Contracting Waiver, 07/01/2008
- Order Approving Turnaround Plan of Action, 06/16/08
- Order Re Merger of Medical Care at Pelican Bay, 06/10/2008
- Receiver’s Turnaround Plan of Action, 06/08/2008
- Order Re 4th Supplemental Contracting Waiver, 04/23/2008
- Order Approving CEO Pilot Coordination Agreement, 04/01/2008
- Order Approving IT Coordination Agreement, 03/10/2008
- Order Approving Construction Coord Agmnt, 02/26/2008
- Order Re 2nd Supplemental Contracting Waiver, 01/25/2008
- Order Appointing New Receiver, 01/23/2008
2007
- Order re 3rd Supplemental Contracting Waiver, 12/20/2007
- Order Adoping Stipulation with SPB Re RCEAs, 09/11/07
- Order Re Preliminary POA & Motion to Modify Injunction, 09/06/2007
- Order Re 1st Supplemental Contracting Waiver, 08/13/2007
- Order Approving Coordination Agreements, 06/28/2007
- Order Waiving State Contracting Laws, 06/04/07
- Request for Response to Coordination Agreements, 05/29/2007
- Order Granting Motion for Limited Waiver of GC 19080.3, 04/25/2007
2006-2002
- Supplemental Order Re State Contracts, 11/08/2006
- Order Granting Waiver of Law Re Employee Salaries, 10/17/2006
- Order Re State Contracts, 03/30/2006
- Order Appointing Receiver, 02/14/2006
- Order Re Interim Remedies Re Clinical Staffing, 12/01/2005
- Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, 10/03/2005
- Stipulated Order Re Quality of Patient Care and Staffing, 09/17/2004
- Stipulation for Injunctive Relief, 06/13/2002
Dashboard & Performance Improvement
Dashboard Glossary
California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS), in partnership with California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations (CDCR), offers comprehensive health care services, from primary preventive care services to end of life care, to the resident population of the California Prison system.
Since 2011, the Health Care Services (HCS) Dashboard has been a vital tool to provide information usually monitored by health care organizations in areas like patient access timeliness, disease management, patient outcomes, utilization of services, and cost. Organizational leaders and program managers use it to survey key performance indicators, identify opportunities for improvement, and trend performance over time.
While the HCS Dashboard has been publicly available as monthly pdf documents since April 2012, starting in May 2023, the HCS Dashboard will be available as an interactive web-based tool, allowing end-users a more interactive and ADA compliant experience.
The new interactive report allows both statewide and institution comparisons and trended performance across over time for 286 measures organized into 12 domains including Scheduling and Access to Care, Population Health Management, Resource Management, Staffing, and Costs.
For additional questions regarding this update, please contact Lifeline@cdcr.ca.gov.
Contract Prison Facility Reports
California Correctional Health Care Services’s audits of Health Care Standards at in-state contract prison facilities.
In State
- Central Valley Modified Community Correctional Facility – January 30 – February 1, 2018
- Central Valley Modified Community Correctional Facility – August 14-15, 2018
- Delano Modified Community Correctional Facility – April 24-26, 2018
- Delano Modified Community Correctional Facility – October 24, 2018
- Desert View Modified Community Correctional Facility – March 6-8, 2018
- Desert View Modified Community Correctional Facility – October 2-4, 2018
- Golden State Modified Community Correctional Facility – May 22-24, 2018
- Golden State Modified Community Correctional Facility – December 4-5, 2018
- McFarland Female Community Reentry Facility – November 6-8, 2018
- Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility – June 12-14, 2018
- Shafter Modified Community Correctional Facility – November 28, 2018
- Taft Modified Community Correctional Facility – January 9-10, 2018
Death in Custody Reporting
Death in Custody Reporting (AB 2761)
Deaths while in law enforcement custody reporting (AB 2761)
California Correctional Health Care Services Annual Inmate Mortality Reviews
- Analysis of Year 2021 Inmate Death Reviews, 04/22/23
- Analysis of Year 2020 Inmate Death Reviews, 12/22/21
- Analysis of Year 2019 Inmate Death Reviews, 01/11/21
- Analysis of Year 2018 Inmate Death Reviews – Suicide Clarification Sheet
- Analysis of Year 2018 Inmate Death Reviews, 11/25/19
- Analysis of Year 2017 Inmate Death Reviews, 11/21/18
- Analysis of Year 2016 Inmate Death Reviews, 10/08/17
- Analysis of Year 2015 Inmate Death Reviews, 09/20/16
- Analysis of Year 2014 Inmate Death Reviews, 07/30/15
- Analysis of Year 2013 Inmate Death Reviews, 10/27/14
- Analysis of Year 2012 Inmate Death Reviews, 08/08/13
- Analysis of Year 2011 Inmate Death Reviews, 06/07/12
- Analysis of Year 2010 Inmate Death Reviews, 08/15/11
- Analysis of Year 2009 Inmate Death Reviews, 09/07/10
- Analysis of Year 2008 Death Reviews, 12/14/09
- Analysis of Year 2007 Death Reviews, 11/03/08
- Analysis of CDCR Death Reviews (2006), 09/19/07
Expert Evaluations
In September 2012, the Federal Court, in Order Re: Receivership Transition Plan and Expert Evaluations, requested that the Court medical experts conduct evaluations at each CDCR prison to determine whether an institution is in substantial compliance. The Order contemplates that an institution “shall be deemed to be in substantial compliance, and therefore constitutionally adequate, if it receives an overall OIG score of at least 75% and an evaluation from at least two of the three court experts that the institution is providing adequate care.”
In conducting the reviews, the medical experts evaluated essential components to an adequate health care system. These include organizational structure, health care infrastructure (e.g.clinical space, equipment, etc.), health care processes, and the quality of care.
- Plata Expert Report: California State Prison, Sacramento, 01/17/14
- Plata Expert Report: California Institution for Men, 12/20/13
- Plata Expert Report: Central California Women’s Facility, 12/11/13
- Plata Expert Report: Salinas Valley State Prison, 08/23/13
- Plata Expert Report: California State Prison, Corcoran, 07/29/13
- Plata Expert Report: California Correctional Institution, 05/31/13
- Plata Expert Report: Sierra Conservation Center, 03/26/13
- Plata Expert Report: California Men’s Colony, 03/18/13
- Plata Expert Report: RJ Donovan Correctional Facility, 03/18/13
- Plata Expert Report: California State Prison, San Quentin, 03/18/13
UCSF Criminal Justice & Health Program Reports
- California State Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Report by the CalPROTECT Project (May 2022)
- California State Prisons During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Section 12 Supplemental Files
- Assessing Medical Bed Utilization among Women in the CDCR
(Cover Letter) - Assessing Medical Systems for the CA Prison Health Care Receivership: CCHCS PATIENT SAFETY PROGRAM
(Cover Letter) - Assessing Medical Systems for the California Prison Health Care Receivership Corporation:
MORTALITY REVIEW POLICY AND PRACTICE
(Cover Letter) - Assessing Medical Systems for the CA Prison Health Care Receivership Maintaining a Qualified Provider Workforce: Recruitment
Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Special Reports
Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Use Disorders Report
- Treatment to Reduce the Burden of Disease and Deaths from Opioid Use Disorder
- Medication-assisted Treatment for Substance-use Disorders – Final Legislative Report – March 2019
- Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Abuse Disorders Annual Report 2018
- Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Abuse Disorders Annual Report 2017
State Leadership Accountability Act Report
Medically Necessary, Potentially Sterilizing Procedures Annual Report
- Medically Necessary, Potentially Sterilizing Procedures Annual Report 2020
- Medically Necessary, Potentially Sterilizing Procedures Annual Report 2019
- Medically Necessary, Potentially Sterilizing Procedures Annual Report 2018
- Medically Necessary, Potentially Sterilizing Procedures Annual Report 2017
- Medically Necessary, Potentially Sterilizing Procedures Annual Report 2016
- Medically Necessary, Potentially Sterilizing Procedures Annual Report 2015
Improvements in the Quality of California’s Prison Medical Care System
Options for Long-Term Care Bed Construction
Projected Need for Long-Term Facilities
- Updated Analyses Regarding Projected Need for Long-Term Care Facilities for CDCR Inmate-Patients, 02/03/09
- Exhibit 1: Independent Review of Abt Associates Needs Assessment Report, 01/16/09
- Exhibit 2: Update: Impact of Prison Population Reductions, 01/05/09
- Exhibit 3: Functional Impairment and the Need for Longterm Care In California Prisons, 12/09/08
- Exhibit 4: Evaluation of Proposed Medical and Mental Health Beds Under the ADA, 01/05/09
Overcrowding Report
- Receiver’s Supplemental Report Re: Overcrowding, 06/11/07
- Hagar Declaration Re: Receiver’s Supplemental Report Re: Overcrowding, 06/11/07
- Exhibits 1-8 to Hagar Declaration Re: Supplemental Overcrowding Report, 06/11/07
- Exhibits 9-12 to Hagar Declaration Re: Supplemental Overcrowding Report, 06/11/07
- Receiver’s request for permission to file supplemental overcrowding report, 06/04/07
- Receiver’s request for permission to file motion to implement recommendations in overcrowding report, 05/31/07
- Receiver’s Report Re: Overcrowding, 05/15/07
- Appendix of Exhibits in Support of Receiver’s Report Re: Overcrowding, 05/15/07
- Overcrowding Report Exhibits Excerpt, 05/15/07
Receiver’s May Revise FY 07-08
Monthly Reports
These reports may have been updated from their original format to meet California accessibility requirements. Please contact Lifeline@cdcr.ca.gov for any questions. For all future monthly metrics, please reference the Health Care Services Dashboard.
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Feb 2012, 02/29/2012 (3.5M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Dec 2011, 12/31/2011 (2.0M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Nov 2011, 11/30/2011 (3.0M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Oct 2011, 10/31/2011 (3.2M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Aug 2011, 8/31/2011 (2.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Jul 2011, 7/31/2011 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Jun 2011, 6/30/2011 (2.1M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Apr 2011, 4/30/2011 (2.4M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Mar 2011, 3/31/2011 (2.4M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Feb 2011, 02/28/2011 (1.6M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Dec 2010, 12/31/2010 (2.3M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Nov 2010, 11/30/2010 (3.4M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Oct 2010, 10/31/2010 (3.0M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Aug 2010, 08/30/2010 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Jul 2010, 07/30/2010 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Jun 2010, 06/30/2010 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Apr 2010, 04/30/2010 (1.8M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Mar 2010, 03/31/2010 (2.0M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Feb 2010, 02/28/2010 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Dec 2009, 12/30/2009 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Nov 2009, 11/30/2009 (2.7M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Oct 2009, 10/15/2009 (1.7M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Aug 2009, 08/15/2009 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Jul 2009, 07/15/2009 (1.9M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Jun 2009, 06/15/2009 (1.7M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Apr 2009, 04/15/2009 (1.7M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Mar 2009, 03/15/2009 (1.6M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Feb 2009, 02/15/2009 (1.6M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Dec 2008, 12/15/2008 (2.1M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Nov 2008, 11/14/2008 (1.6M)
- Turnaround Plan Monthly Report for Oct 2008, 10/15/2008 (1.2M)