The company that runs Prince George’s County‘s public hospitals says it will no longer serve inmates after aconvict’s armed escape Wednesday from Laurel Regional Hospital, but state corrections officials say the change in policy won’t have much effect because it exempts “emergency” visits.

Kelvin Poke, who took guns from two state corrections officers and led police on an hours-long manhunt, leaving hospital workers and patients shaken in his wake before being killed by police, would still have been brought to the hospital under the new policy – he was sent to Laurel’s emergency room after complaining of chest pains, said Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services spokesman Mark Vernarelli.