Transition Ability

For over 25 years, CONMED has been successfully transitioning correctional healthcare services upon contracting with new customer facilities.

Our primary goal in transitioning a facility’s healthcare service is to avoid any major interruptions in service and ensure its day-to-day operational requirements continue to be met.

Our primary goal in transitioning a facility’s healthcare service is to avoid any interruptions in service and ensure day-to-day operational requirements continue to be met. The last thing any correctional facility wants or needs is a disruption in inmate healthcare services. Upon award of a contract, we assemble a dedicated Transition Team and begin work identifying all tasks required to successfully execute a seamless changeover of services to CONMED. We work within the time frame as determined by the Facility Administration, and we keep the Facility Administration updated on progress through and beyond the start date, until the transition is completed. Our Transition Teams are comprised of management leadership from Operations, Human Resources, Medical and Mental Health Services, Nursing, Quality Assurance and Standards, Finance, and IT. Everyone plays an integral role in the successful transition of each new contract to ensure that contract requirements are met and expectations exceeded.

Our management leadership from Operations, Human Resources, Medical and Mental Health Services, Nursing, Quality Assurance and Standards, Finance, and IT all play an integral role in the successful transition of each new contract to ensure that contract requirements are met and expectations exceeded.

Project Teams

CONMED is a “high touch” company; senior management frequently and routinely visits each of our contracted facilities across the United States. We partner with each facility and support them through corporate and regional monitoring and oversight.

For each contracted facility, CONMED designates a dedicated Project Team; this network of professionals remains a presence through the life of the contract. Each Project Team includes:

• A highly qualified Medical Director
• A Health Services Administrator
• Regional Medical Directors and Regional Operations personnel, who provide support, monitoring and oversight in addition to that afforded by CONMED’s Chief Medical Officer and Vice President, Operations; and,
• Regional Nursing and Quality Assurance support to provide training as needed, audit preparation, and to address specific needs as required.

Every Project Team includes senior corporate management, who are all personally involved by direct site visits on a monthly basis at a minimum, or more frequently as needed. Additionally, facility administration has easy access to senior management whenever needed.

Our Vision

Our mission is to be recognized as the preeminent provider of distinctive medical and mental health services in the county and municipal level correctional healthcare field and to be respected nationally for the value, innovativeness and excellence of our programs. To achieve this overriding objective, we will:

To achieve this overriding objective, we will:

• Strive, in delivering our programs and services, to maintain our long-term relationships with all our external clients, including sheriffs, wardens and county executives
• Provide continuously outstanding quality and value measurable in our clients’ evaluations and in meeting state and national standards
• Focus on niche services and ancillary offerings that uniquely serve the discrete needs of our clients at affordable prices
• Best serve the interests of our clients and Conmed by keeping an eye on the bottom line while not competing solely on price
• Ensure that all our activities support our vision to be a leading resource nationwide for county and municipal level correctional healthcare services

Our Values

In day-to-day operations and across the nation, we cultivate a particular set of values, always holding firm in our belief that:

• Our clients are everyone with whom we have contact, including sheriffs, wardens, county executives, physicians, nurses, vendors and Conmed shareholders
• Our clients have the right to our best performance, without exception
• Our foremost responsibility is to make intelligent commitments and to be uncompromising in our efforts to fulfill them
• Critical measures of our effectiveness are both our clients’ positive feelings about working with us—and being referred by them 100% of the time
• In all we do we must aspire to a “high level of personal touch,” distinctive quality, intellectual honesty, clinical integrity, cooperation and goodwill
• Our response, when we fail, will be characterized by grace and a timely, cost-effective and skillful remedy
• Everyone deserves to be treated with professionalism, loyalty and dignity and we must conduct ourselves accordingly
• Our attitude should consistently communicate a bias towards YES and within our staff, our impulse should be to help, support, and honor each engagement and the individuals involved
• Every Conmed employee should follow this company credo in thought, word and actions