article_snippet.sent: A Utah prison inmate is dead of an apparent heart attack related to renal failure after a dialysis provider didn't show up for a scheduled treatment for two days in a row, a prison official said Tuesday.
article_snippet.sent: a prison official was scheduled to have dialysis Friday at the prison's treatment center, but a technician did not show up on Friday or SaturdaySaturday.
article_snippet.sent: The technician or technicians involved worked for a University of Utah Hospital clinic that provides dialysis for the prison.
article_snippet.sent: Kathy Wilets, a University of Utah Hospital spokeswoman, said there appears to have been some miscommunication with South Valley Dialysis technician scheduling, and a University of Utah Hospital clinic that provides dialysis for the prison is investigating. '
article_snippet.sent: Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Adams did not have details about how long the four admitted to a University of Utah Hospital clinic that provides dialysis for the prison went without dialysis treatment.
article_snippet.sent: The prison's clinical services director has been placed on leave as The corrections department investigates how prison staff and South Valley Dialysis responded and how a similar situation can be prevented.
article_snippet.sent: Estrada died at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah after a dialysis provider failed to show for two days in a row .
article_snippet.sent: The corrections department is taking immediate steps to ensure The prison has contact numbers for technicians scheduled to show up and that prison staff are notified when technicians show up for treatment and that technicians report on inmate conditions, Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Adams said.
article_snippet.sent: Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Adams said Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Adams did not have details about whether prison staff tried to contact the technicians when the technicians failed to show.
highlights_snippet.sent: Ramon C. Estrada was scheduled to have dialysis Friday at the prison's treatment center, but Adams did not show up on Friday or Saturday .
  