District of Columbia
Department of Corrections
1923 Vermont Ave NW
Washington,
DC
USA
20001-4125
Email:
Henry.Lesansky@dc.gov
Biographical Sketch:
Henry R. Lesansky, Ph.D., CCM was appointed as the Health Services Administrator by Director Devon Brown of the D.C. Department of Corrections (DOC) in February 2006. The Office of Health Services Administration is charged with management, supervision, oversight and performance monitoring of comprehensive health services provided under contract for 18,000 pre-sentenced and sentenced male, female and juvenile offenders annually housed at the Central Detention Facility (D.C. Jail), Correctional Treatment Facility, and four Community Correctional Centers. The DOC health care system operates under the Community-Oriented Correctional Health Care model, for which the District was selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as the first urban site for replication of an integrated process of early assessment, prompt and effective treatment, prevention, health education, and discharge planning for continuity of care.
A native Washingtonian, Henry has over 20 years of executive management experience in correctional services and public safety. He served as the first Inspector General of the Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services, where the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) was recognized for comprehensive re-engineering of the correctional health care system and implementation of a managed care model serving 26,000 inmates, resulting in multi-million dollar cost savings, cost avoidance and financial recoveries from multiple medical services contractors. After more than a dozen years as Inspector General, Dr. Lesansky was appointed Assistant Secretary at the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services (DJS), where over 300 private vendors provided services to 15,000 juveniles under care and supervision. While at DJS, Dr. Lesansky managed the Office of Professional Responsibility and Accountability (OPRA) supervising a staff of 50 program specialists, accountants, auditors, investigators and child advocates.
He has been a program manager for the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) in the development of national standards for the accreditation of law enforcement agencies, worked in the United State Senate specializing in criminal justice issues, and has served as a consultant in Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) to the Police Foundation in Washington, D.C. In 2005 he was a team member for the first on-site audit of the Tsunami Relief efforts in India.