MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE Sample Clauses

MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE. Defendants shall provide constitutionally adequate medical and mental health care, including screening, assessment, treatment, and monitoring of prisoners' medical and mental health needs. Defendants also shall protect the safety of prisoners at risk for self-injurious behavior or suicide, including giving priority access to care to individuals most at risk of harm and who otherwise meet the criteria for inclusion in the target population for being at high risk for suicide.
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MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE. GENERAL PROVISIONS
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MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE. GENERAL PROVISIONS (1) Standard The State shall ensure that services to address the serious medical and mental health needs of all inmates meet generally accepted professional standards.
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MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE. A. The County’s standards of care for transgender and gender-variant individuals shall reflect community-based standards of care, including relevant UCSF guidelines and World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)
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MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE. A. The County’s standards of care for transgender and gender-variant individuals shall reflect community-based standards of care, including relevant UCSF guidelines and World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care. B. The County’s standards of care and practice shall ensure that documentation or evidence of prior gender-affirming care is not a prerequisite to receiving gender-affirming care while in Jail custody. C. The County shall ensure that medical and mental health staff have specific knowledge of and training on gender dysphoria, and the treatment thereof, including as to the WPATH Standards of Care. D. The County shall ensure that a qualified medical professional and a qualified mental health professional coordinate to evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients for gender dysphoria. E. The County shall give transgender and intersex patients uninterrupted access to clinically indicated hormone therapy based upon an individualized assessment of the patient’s medical needs in accordance with community-based standards of care. 1. If a patient arrives at the jail on hormone therapy, the patient shall be supplied with a prescription for hormones as a bridge, and shall be scheduled for an assessment for continued gender dysphoria care as soon as possible. Hormone therapy shall not be interrupted absent a clinical evaluation and individualized assessment of need. 2. The County shall accept an individual’s self-attestation concerning historical hormone use. Self-attestation permits individuals to access hormone therapy immediately until an assessment for gender dysphoria is completed. F. Sex reassignment surgery should be considered on a case-by-case basis and provided when determined to be medically necessary for a patient. G. The County shall prohibit psychotherapy such as “reparative” or “conversion” therapy or attempts to alter gender identity.
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MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE. Unless otherwise stated, the provisions of this Section III apply to BCDC and to: (a) those portions of other facilities managed by DPDS that provide medical or mental health services to plaintiffs confined at BCDC, or to plaintiffs who would be confined at BCDC but for their need for those medical or mental health services, but only to the extent that such other facilities provide such medical or mental health services to those plaintiffs; and (b) solely for the purpose of temperature monitoring from May through September, those portions of other facilities managed by DPDS in which plaintiffs designated H1 are housed, if those plaintiffs would be housed at BCDC but for the H1 designation. At the time this Settlement Agreement is entered, the portions of such other facilities covered are:
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MEDICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH CARE. A. The County’s standards of care for transgender and gender-variant individuals shall reflect community-based standards of care, including relevant UCSF guidelines and World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) Standards of Care. B. The County’s standards of care and practice shall ensure that documentation or evidence of prior gender-affirming care is not a prerequisite to receiving gender- affirming care while in Jail custody. C. The County shall ensure that medical and mental health staff have specific knowledge of and training on gender dysphoria and the treatment thereof, including as to the WPATH Standards of Care.
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