The mission of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care is to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinement facilities. Read More ›
Research & Policy ›
- More than 50 health care professional organizations have called for all health care employers to require their employees to be vaccinated ag…
- NCCHC has partnered with researchers at Harvard University to study the effects of accreditation on health care delivery in jails and is inv…
- The American Society of Addiction Medicine calls for a new standard of care for opioid use disorder as well as systemic changes to ensure un…
Announcements ›
- CDC to distribute $700 million to 64 state and local jurisdictions to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in confinement facilities, includi…
- To facilitate continuity of care, correctional facilities should provide outgoing patients with portable health records that they may share…
- For a typical community health provider or leader, working in a correctional environment may seem as foreign as working in another nation. I…
What's New ›
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Workers in correctional facilities, as well as incarcerated persons who are assigned to work details, may be exposed to viral pathogens if ...
For World Hepatitis Day, July 28, a reminder of what the standards have to say about hepatitis. Q: Our state performs hepatitis testing...
The Journal of Correctional Health Care and Transgender Health are collaborating to produce a special issue on Transgen...