Healthcare planning for a 4,947-bed, two-facility jail system that already contracts out its medical services.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office already contracts out inmate medical services across its 4,947 bed, two-facility system, with Orient Road Jail concentrating the heaviest intake screening load before inmates move into either facility. GENESYS would size a staffing plan to that two-site system and its intake-heavy front end, inside a contracted model the county has already chosen to run.
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The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Department of Detention Services runs a combined 4,947-bed jail system across two facilities: the Orient Road Jail at 1201 Orient Road in Tampa, the primary receiving facility that books and processes inmates for more than 27 different law enforcement agencies, and the larger Falkenburg Road Jail at 520 N. Falkenburg Road, also in Tampa, rated for 3,300.
HCSO already uses third-party contractors to provide inmate medical, food and commissary services, so this is an established contracted model, not one a provider would be standing up from scratch. The next contract has to size staffing for a two-site system with a dedicated high-volume intake facility feeding a larger housing facility, and has to cover whatever handoff happens between the two addresses as inmates move from booking into longer-term housing.
Orient Road Jail is Hillsborough's primary receiving facility, providing booking, processing and detention services for more than 27 different law enforcement agencies. That concentrates the heaviest intake medical screening load at one site, even though inmates are then held across both Orient Road and Falkenburg Road, so a healthcare program has to staff that intake function differently than general housing.
Falkenburg Road Jail carries a rated capacity of 3,300, larger than Orient Road's share of the combined 4,947-bed system. As of HCSO's 2023 Annual Report, the Department of Detention Services organizes its two facilities into three jail divisions plus a Court Operations Division. The bulk of ongoing and chronic care for a population this size sits at Falkenburg, which needs clinical staffing built for longer-term housing rather than short-stay intake, while a share of the system's medical workload still has to track inmates through the Court Operations Division as cases move through the system.
The Vera Institute figure is the median average daily population for the last three years with available data.
Two: Orient Road Jail at 1201 Orient Road, Tampa, the primary receiving and booking facility, and Falkenburg Road Jail at 520 N. Falkenburg Road, Tampa, rated for 3,300, for a combined 4,947-bed system organized, as of HCSO's 2023 Annual Report, into three jail divisions plus a Court Operations Division.
Yes. HCSO's Department of Detention Services uses third-party contractors to provide inmate medical, food and commissary services system-wide, across both Orient Road Jail and Falkenburg Road Jail. A new or renewing contract is stepping into an already established contracted model rather than building one from scratch.
At Orient Road Jail, Hillsborough's primary receiving facility, which provides booking, processing and detention services for more than 27 different law enforcement agencies. Inmates are medically screened there before being classified and housed across both Orient Road and the larger Falkenburg Road Jail, which carries a rated capacity of 3,300.
The Vera Institute's three-year median average daily population for Hillsborough is about 3,600, against a combined rated system capacity of 4,947 beds across Orient Road Jail and Falkenburg Road Jail. That gap between population and rated capacity is useful context when sizing a staffing plan.
If Hillsborough is reviewing its contracted jail medical model, GENESYS can walk your team through what a physician-led program across both facilities would look like.
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