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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: Health Aff (Millwood). 2014 Mar;33(3):434–442. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2013.1115

EXHIBIT 3.

Discharge Planning Services For HIV-Positive People Released From State Prison Systems

Responding systems
Number of systems Percent of systems Percent of inmates affected
INDIVIDUAL PLANNING SERVICESa

List of providers or information about community resources provided to releasee 36 84 84
Appointment with community provider made for releasee 33 77 68
Copy of medical record provided to releasee 19 44 47
Written prescription provided to releasee 15 35 29
Releasee enrolled in entitlement program 22 51 35
Medications provided to releasee 41 95 94

COMBINATION OF PLANNING SERVICES

List of providers and medications provided to releasee 24 56 47
Appointment made for and medications provided to releasee 30 70 61
Appointment made for and medications provided to releasee; releasee enrolled in entitlement program 19 44 32
Appointment made for, and medical record and medications provided to, releasee 12 28 23

BEST PRACTICES

Conforms to best practices in discharge planningb 8 19 10

SOURCE Authors’ analysis of findings from a survey of medical directors of state prison systems.

NOTE Forty-three of the fifty directors responded to the survey.

a

A system may offer more than one of these services.

b

Best practices are making an appointment for the releasee, enrolling him or her in an entitlement program, and giving the releasee a copy of his or her medical record and a supply of HIV medications (see Note 13 in text).