De Blasio ends contract with Rikers health care provider

By Gloria Pazmino, Colby Hamilton and Dan Goldberg


The city will not renew a multimillion dollar contract with Corizon Health, the company that provides medical care at the Rikers Island jail complex, and will transfer the care of inmates to the city's Health and Hospitals Corporation, the de Blasio administration announced on Wednesday.

Corizon, a for-profit company based in Tennessee, has been faulted by state investigators for negligence and substandard care that investigators say has contributed to at least a dozen deaths at the facility.

The city has contracted care from Corizon and its predecessor companies since 2001. Its current three-year, $154 million contract expires at the end of this year.
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