Docket 31 ¶ 1. Dr. Regier has been providing medical services to inmates incarcerated at the SDSP since on or about June 1996. Docket 31 ¶2. He became an employee of the South Dakota Department of Health (SDDOH) in May 2001 when said agency undertook the responsibility of providing medical care of inmates incarcerated in the State's correctional facilities. Docket 31 ¶ 2.