Chapter 6 – Adult Classification

62050.8.2 Voluntary and Emergency Medical/Psychiatric Care

• Whenever a parolee requires medical care, it shall ordinarily be provided by private physicians and facilities in the community. Costs for such care shall be provided by the parolee’s own resources or community welfare funds.

• If the parolee is without sufficient funds, every effort shall be made to establish their eligibility for financial assistance (such as Medi-Cal) to enable utilization of local resources. Return to prison for health care services that are normally available in the community shall be utilized only if all other efforts to obtain health care fail.

• Medical/Surgical/Dental Cases

  • When a parolee requires medical, surgical, psychiatric or dental care of an emergency nature, and all efforts to obtain community services have failed, the parolee may consent to be returned to a correctional institution. The parole unit supervisor or designee shall contact the CMOChief Medical Officer, Medical Officer-of-the-Day (MODMedical Officer of the Day) or Chief Psychiatrist of the institutions designated:

    • Males to CIMCalifornia Institution for Men, California Mens Colony – East (CMCCalifornia Men's Colony-E), CMFCalifornia Medical Facility or females to CIWCalifornia Institution for Women.

  • If the patient’s condition does not permit transfer to one of the above facilities, any institution may be utilized. On the next business day, the appropriate parole authority shall be notified of the return.

• Psychiatric Cases

  • Males from Parole Northern Region are placed at CMFCalifornia Medical Facility.

  • Males from Parole Southern Region are placed at CIMCalifornia Institution for Men-RCC for initial custody/treatment screening prior to transfer to CMFCalifornia Medical Facility or CMCCalifornia Men's Colony-E or CIMCalifornia Institution for Men. Females from Parole Northern and Southern Region are placed at CIWCalifornia Institution for Women.

• Transfer Requests

  • Transfers shall be made during regular work hours. When necessary to effect a move during other than normal hours (nights, weekends or holidays), approval for the acceptance of a parolee shall rest with the institution’s Administrative Officer-of-the-Day and/or the MODMedical Officer of the Day.

  • The administrator who approves an emergency transfer shall follow up by notifying the institution’s C&PRClassification & Parole Representative on the next workday for purposes of attaining necessary records and to ensure the case is brought to the attention of the appropriate parole authority.

  • When the parolee is medically cleared the C&PRClassification & Parole Representative of the holding institution shall notify the parolee’s district administrator to effect removal from the institution by reinstatement on parole or other appropriate action. Such notification shall be made a matter of written record.