Chair Farías asks about missed prenatal appointments due to non-production
Farías asks how many pregnant people missed scheduled prenatal or obstetric appointments because DOC did not produce them. Merrill reports non-production rates for on-island and off-island appointments across calendar years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
Okay, and in the past three calendar years, how many pregnant people in DOC's custody missed scheduled prenatal or obstetric appointments because they were not produced by DOC?
And if you can possibly, if we have those by year, that would be helpful.
Sure.
So in calendar year 25, 53% of on-island obstetric appointments were non-productions.
But I should note that is the initially scheduled appointment.
If an individual misses that first scheduled appointment, we coordinate to reschedule and then can always escalate as needed at the local level to ensure the woman has access to care.
So again, 53% non-production for on-island and then off-island, meaning Elmhurst Hospital, is 40% non-production.
And then calendar year 24, on island, 37% non-production, 43% for off island.
And then calendar year 23, on island, 27% non-production, 69% off island non-production.
Got it.