New Jail Healthcare provider…same crew, different name

The contractor for the Escambia County Jail infirmary is Armor Correctional Health Services, a company founded less than two years ago by the same man who started Prison Health Services. In fact most of their management team is ex-PHS.

The company’s head, Doyle H. Moore, founded Prison Health Services (PHS) in 1978, and served as president until 1991. He held other leadership roles with the company from 1996 through August 2004, when Moore left the job of executive director of client services.

Four other Armor executives also worked for PHS prior to joining the company. Mary Jo Cheuvront was vice president of business development for EMSA, a subsidiary of PHS. Angela Goehring was health services administrator with PHS and the administrator of managed care from 1997-99 for EMSA. And Brenda Barshinger was the director of clinical information management for PHS.

Armor’s corporate medical director, Dr. John May, also worked for PHS, which has contracts in several states. He was PHS’s regional medical director in Indianapolis from August 1998 to March 2000.