Nurse Charles Brenke with Wellpath, the contracted medical provider for the Arkansas Department of Corrections, prepares doses of the Pfizer covid-19 vaccine in North Little Rock in this Jan. 5, 2021, file photo. Employees of the Corrections Department and Wellpath were among the first in Arkansas to get the vaccine. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Staton Breidenthal)
The Arkansas Board of Corrections on Friday voted to move forward with a new 10-year, $1.5 billion medical contract with Wellpath.
The state Department of Corrections previously had a decade-long agreement with Wellpath, which was set to expire earlier in the year.
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