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Guam’s Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio (center) and Connecticut’s Lt. Gov. Nancy Wyman tour the Hartford jail Oct. 4, 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Looking to apply best practices to its correction system, the U.S. territory of Guam is tapping the expertise of Correctional Managed Health Care<\/a>, the division of UConn Health that provides care to Connecticut\u2019s inmate population.<\/p>\n

This week, Guam Lt. Gov. Ray Tenorio visited with CMHC leaders and other state officials, and toured UConn Health and correctional facilities in Suffield and Hartford.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour state has made a lot of investments and has worked out all of the operational wrinkles,\u201d Tenorio says. \u201cThere\u2019s such a nice symbiosis between the inmates and the detainees and the correction officers and the nurses and doctors and all the other professionals who deliver those services. It\u2019s a really good example for Guam to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Trestman<\/a>, CMHC\u2019s executive director, says CMHC has had the benefit of a 20-year relationship with the Connecticut Department of Correction to develop one of the nation\u2019s best health care delivery systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can support the facilities in Guam by bringing that expertise to bear in a fairly efficient way, and help them be able to leapfrog beyond a lot of the challenges rather than having to learn it themselves,\u201d Trestman says. \u201cAs consultants we can work to support them. As colleagues and collaborators, we can learn in both directions some of the challenges and opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

CMHC\u2019s relationship with Guam goes back nearly two years, when Guam Attorney General Elizabeth Barrett-Anderson brought in CMHC\u2019s director of medical services, Dr. Johnny Wu, to help stave off a potential federal takeover of her prison system\u2019s medical services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was fortunate to be able to go out there and provide consultation services and oversee some of the changes that have gone on over the past year and a half, and I think at this point it is very likely that they\u2019ll get out from under this judge\u2019s order shortly,\u201d Wu says.<\/p>\n

As part of this, Wu has provided remote consultation via teleconference, a capability that Tenorio says offers much promise.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got somebody in a room with a nurse or another doctor, and we can consult with expertise that we don\u2019t have necessarily on the ground in Guam, or at the Department of Corrections, or Behavioral Health and Wellness,\u201d Tenorio says. \u201cWe could potentially get huge benefit by getting access to the care, and meet the expectations and the needs for those inmates and detainees, or the people of Guam for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another vision for the future is an arrangement in which UConn medical, dental and behavioral health students travel to Guam to provide services for its correction system.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can be difficult for us to get the expertise we could use in Guam,\u201d Tenorio says. \u201cWe have a relatively small population, we\u2019re very remote from the stateside, and because it\u2019s so far away, and people are accustomed to living and working in the States. It\u2019s kind of hard to get people to come out to Guam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tenorio says Guam has a population of about 180,000, and has about 800 inmates and detainees in its two facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe University of Connecticut has kind of been our coach in getting us to where we need to be,\u201d Tenorio says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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