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County commissioners update jail medical staffing pact

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County commissioners update jail medical staffing pact

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County commissioners on Monday made quick work of a brief agenda during their regular weekly meeting.

The trio unanimously approved a contract with Turn Key Health Clinics of Oklahoma City to provide medical staffing and related administrative services for the county jail.

The commission had approved a similar contract at its Sept. 7 meeting, but Sheriff Dennis Banther said he wanted to assure some of the equipment the company had agreed in principle to provide was written into the contract.

The contract approved at Monday’s meeting provided that, he said.

It’s valid Nov. 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.

The board also approved an annual commissary/inmate trust financial report from the sheriff’s office.

All three commissioners - Chairman Ray Alan Shimanek, Heath Dobrovolny and Jeff Moss - were present.

Also present at the meeting were County Clerk Jeannie Boevers, Pipeline Inspector Cody Murray, County Safety Director Nik Smith and City-County Emergency Management Director Steve Loftis.

Loftis listed for the commissioners an update on the county’s number of COVID-19 cases as provided by the Oklahoma Department of Health.

The most recent numbers as of the meeting were 403 total confirmed cases in Kingfisher County, which was an increase from the previous week.

The data showed 331 total recovered cases and two deaths in the county, Loftis said.

There were 70 active cases in the county.

Local cities and towns with active cases included 29 in Kingfisher, 19 in Hennessey, six in Dover, six in Loyal, four in Omega, four in Okarche and three in Cashion, Loftis said.

Loftis added that al though there were believed to be more deaths linked to COVID-19 out of Hennessey, the State Department of Health had not yet confirmed that.