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The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC)has a mission to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinement facilities. With support from the major national organizations representing the fields of health, law and corrections, NCCHC’s leadership in setting standards for health services is widely recognized. Building on that foundation, our not-for-profit organization offers a broad array of resources to help correctional health care systems provide efficient, high quality care.

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Patricia Voermans, RN, CCHP-RN, represents the American Nurses Association on the NCCHC Board, being newly appointed in 2010. Voermans is a health services consultant primarily doing quality improvement and other special... more
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A brief chat with Pauline Marcussen, RHIA, CCHP, who represents the American Health Information Management Association on the NCCHC Board of Directors. Pauline is a new member of the Board having been appointed in the fall of... more
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Ronald Shansky, MD, MPH, FSCP discusses his career in the correctional medical specialty leading to receiving the 2010 Award of Merit.
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This prestigious award is presented to one facility selected from among the nearly 500 prisons, jails, and juvenile detention and confinement facilities accredited by NCCHC. A discussion of the award and the work done at Tipton Correctional... more
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Sheriff Marlin Gusman and Samuel Gore, MD discuss the Disaster Planning Program at Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office, New Orleans, LA. This program was the recipient of the NCCHC 2010 Program of the Year award.
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A chat with 2010 Excellence in Communications Award Recipient, Jeffrey Metzner, about forensic psychiatry, the Ramos v. Lamm federal lawsuit and the evolution of correctional mental health standards.
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A chat with Edgar Barens, MFA, Visiting Media Specialist, UIC Jane Addams College of Social Work, Chicago, about the video produced at Iowa State Penitentiary chronically the lives of two inmate patients in their hospice program.
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Scott Allen, MD, Co-Director, Center for Prison Health and Human Rights, Brown University, RI chats about principles of hunger strike management, a session he will present at the October 2010 NCCHC conference in Las Vegas.
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Meridith Mitstifer, PsyD and Jessica Sage, PsyD, US Dept of Justice, Tucson, AZ discuss staff self-care in corrections. They present this topic at the October 2010 NCCHC Conference in Las Vegas
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A chat with Rosanne Harmon, MSN, RN, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, Oregon Dept of Corrections, Portland, OR about clues to malingered psychosis. Ms Harmon presents this topic at the October 2010 NCCHC... more
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