The Contractor shall: • Contractor must provide service for essential medications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This includes weekends, holidays and after hours. • Contractor must have an emergency notification system, must be available after hours, and must return calls within one hour to either the Jail or the local hospital Emergency Department for medication orders for jail inmates. • Orders placed by phone/fax/internet must be ready for delivery and available within a minimum of four hours from the time the order is placed if medically indicated. Contractor will deliver, or arrange delivery of, all medications to Gila County Jail. • An occasional emergency response time of 1 hour from order may be required. • Orders for medications where the next administered dose is to occur the next day may be delivered the following morning.
