Bernalillo County Selects Corizon Health For $65 Million Correctional Medicine Contract At Metropolitan Detention Center
On October 17, 2021, Corizon Health of New Mexico, LLC (Corizon) began a new four-year contract valued at $64.8 million with the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Corizon will provide medical, dental, mental health, and psychiatric services, as well as pharmaceuticals, to MDC inmates. It will also provide on-site medical care for MDC personnel on an as-needed basis. Corizon replaces Centurion Health which exercised the termination clause in its contract in June 2021. The four-year contract has two one-year renewal options. The county commissioners approved the new contract on . . .