Correctional healthcare built around Fulton County's three jail sites and one of the largest jail populations in Georgia.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office runs three jail sites, the main facility on Rice Street, the Marietta Annex and the South Annex in Union City, with a combined rated capacity of 3,048 and an average daily population around 2,460. GENESYS would staff one clinical program across all three addresses, with the same intake screening, sick call and chronic care protocols at each site and a medical record that follows a person if they move.
GENESYS is physician-owned, with a named medical director accountable for clinical policy, quality assurance and NCCHC-aligned standards of care, and leadership reachable 24/7/365 across a system this size. Vacancies are covered through overtime, compliance pool nurses and contingency staffing so open shifts at every site are filled. Schedule an assessment and we will walk through a staffing plan for all three Fulton County sites.
Every GENESYS contract is built from the same nine services, sized to the facility's population and staffing model. Each one has its own page with the detail.
We will walk through a staffing plan, coverage hours and how the transition would work for your population.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office operates the Fulton County Jail (FCJ) at 901 Rice St NW in Atlanta, along with the Marietta Annex and the South Annex Jail in Union City. A June 2019 report put the system's total rated capacity at 3,048.
Contracting out healthcare for a jail system like this means staffing one clinical program across three addresses rather than one infirmary. Intake screening, sick call, chronic care and medication administration all have to reach whichever site a person is actually held at, on the same protocols, while the Sheriff's Office keeps custody and security.
A jail system split across Rice Street, the Marietta Annex and the South Annex Jail in Union City cannot run on a single infirmary model. Provider coverage, medication passes and sick call rounds all have to be scheduled at each location, and a person's medical record has to follow them if they move between sites, so the clinical team functions as one program across three buildings rather than three separate operations.
Vera Institute data puts the system's average daily population at about 2,460 in recent years, against a combined rated capacity of 3,048 in the 2019 report. At that size the medical program never has a quiet day: intake screening, medical clearance, sick call and chronic disease management run at a steady, high volume, and staffing has to be planned for the full population across all three sites rather than for a typical day at Rice Street.
The 3,048 figure is a combined system total from a June 2019 report. The Vera Institute figure is a three year median.
Three: the main jail at 901 Rice St NW in Atlanta, the Marietta Annex and the South Annex Jail in Union City. A correctional healthcare contract covering Fulton has to staff and supervise clinical coverage at all three locations, not just the Rice Street facility most people picture when they hear Fulton County Jail.
Vera Institute data puts the system's average daily jail population at about 2,460, a three year median, and a June 2019 report put total rated capacity at 3,048 across the three sites. That is one of the largest jail populations in Georgia, which shapes everything from intake staffing at Rice Street to how medication passes are scheduled at the annexes.
Per the Sheriff's Office, the Fulton County Jail's Medical Unit provides 24 hour health care for inmates, and emergency dental care is available. A correctional healthcare contract is how a county turns that description into staffed coverage: physician care, nursing, dental, mental health, pharmacy and medication management working from the same clinical protocols.
At roughly 2,460 average daily population system wide, per Vera Institute data, a contract needs all nine core services (physician care, nursing, dental, mental health, pharmacy, medication management, medical records, ancillary services and claims processing) sized to a jail running three sites rather than a single housing unit.
See what a GENESYS program built around Fulton County's three site jail system and its population caps would look like for your facility.
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