California Medical Facility

Details
Medical Suppliers In California

Name :

California Medical Facility

Address  :

1600 California Drive
P.O. Box 2000

Town  :

Vacaville

State  :

California

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

95696

Phone  :

707 448 6841

Web URL  :

Not Available
Specialization
Information not available, if you are owner/employee of California Medical Facility Please click to update hospital details.
Facilities

Total Number Of Beds : 232

Description
The California Medical Facility CMF was established in 1955 by the Legislature to provide a centrally located medical psychiatric institution for the health care needs of the male felon population in Californias prisons Currently CMF operates with a 171 million dollar budget and approximately 1853 employees

CMF houses a general acute care hospital correctional treatment center CTC licensed elderly care unit inpatient and outpatient psychiatric facilities a hospice unit for terminally ill inmates housing and treatment for inmates identified with AIDSHIV general population and other special inmate housing Additionally the Department of Mental Health operates a licensed acute care psychiatric hospital within CMF


Institution StatisticsAs of Fiscal Year 20062007 the following statistics apply

Number of custody staff724
Number of medical staff551
Number of support services staff253
Number of Department of Mental Health staff325
Total number of staff1853

Annual operating budget180 million
NEWS
Menthol cigarettes may increase stroke risk study says

WASHINGTON DC WUSA Menthol cigarette smokers are more likely to have a history of stroke than smokers who prefer other types of cigarettes according to a new study published in the April 9 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine Researchers found that menthol cigarette smokers were more than twice as likely to have a stroke than nonmenthol smoke... Read More

ARTICLES
Concerns in UK over feeding tube diet

Dieticians have warned of the dangers of losing weight with a starvation diet available in Britain for the first time The British Dietetic Association BDA says there are huge risks to the diet in which people are given just 130 calories a day through a feeding tube that goes up their nose and down to their stomach The 10day regime forces the ... Read More