Healthcare planning for Florida's largest jail system, run by Miami-Dade's own corrections department.
Miami-Dade's jail system is run by its own Corrections and Rehabilitation Department rather than an elected sheriff, booking and classifying about 80,000 people a year across four facilities, with a new detention facility already funded to replace its oldest site. GENESYS would price and staff coverage for all four buildings together, not just the primary receiving facility, so pharmacy delivery and physician coverage keep pace with a continuous intake system.
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Miami-Dade runs the largest jail system in Florida, and it is not run by an elected sheriff. The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (MDCR) operates it instead, with its flagship site at the Pre-Trial Detention Center, 1321 NW 13th Street in Miami. Across its facilities, MDCR carries a systemwide average population of approximately 4,700 inmates on any given day.
A healthcare contract for a system this size has to cover more than one building and absorb a heavy intake load: MDCR books and classifies approximately 80,000 people a year. Whoever holds the Health Authority agreement here is staffing emergency, chronic and mental health coverage across a continuous intake operation, not a single clinic with a predictable caseload.
The Pre-Trial Detention Center is one of four facilities MDCR runs. The others are the Metro West Detention Center, the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and the Boot Camp Program. A healthcare contract that only prices for one building misses most of the system: coverage, pharmacy delivery and records have to work the same way at every site, not just the flagship facility.
Miami-Dade's adopted FY2024-25 budget funds a $447.583 million capital program to replace the Pre-Trial Detention Center, Miami-Dade's oldest facility, through $417.583 million in Future Financing bond proceeds and $30 million in Building Better Communities bond proceeds. A project of that size runs for years, and a healthcare provider will need to plan clinical and intake space for the facility that is being built, not only the one currently standing, while keeping care uninterrupted through the transition.
The Vera Institute figure is the median average daily population for the last three years with available data.
The Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (MDCR), not the Sheriff's Office, operates the county's jail system, including the Pre-Trial Detention Center and MDCR's other facilities. A healthcare contract covering intake, chronic and mental health care across MDCR's roughly 4,700 average daily population runs through that department rather than through a sheriff's office, which is how jail healthcare contracting works in most other Florida counties.
MDCR operates four facilities: the Pre-Trial Detention Center at 1321 NW 13th Street in Miami, the Metro West Detention Center, the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and the Boot Camp Program. Together they carry a systemwide average population of approximately 4,700 inmates on any given day, so a healthcare program has to staff coverage, pharmacy and records consistently across all four addresses.
MDCR books and classifies approximately 80,000 inmates a year across its facilities. That volume drives how much intake screening staffing a healthcare program needs on any given shift, since every one of those bookings requires a medical and mental health screening before classification and housing assignment, not only the inmates who stay in custody long term.
Yes. The county's adopted FY2024-25 budget funds a $447.583 million capital program to replace the Pre-Trial Detention Center, Miami-Dade's oldest facility, through $417.583 million in Future Financing bond proceeds and $30 million in Building Better Communities bond proceeds. A physician-led healthcare partner planning for Miami-Dade needs to account for that multi-year transition, not just the facility operating today.
If Miami-Dade's next healthcare contract needs a physician-led partner built for a multi-facility, high-volume system, GENESYS can walk your team through what that program would look like.
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