Mitigate Risk and Prevent Adverse Events
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.
NCCHC’s leadership is recognized internationally. To help correctional health care systems provide efficient, high-quality care, we offer a broad array of services and resources. We establish standards for health services in correctional facilities, operate a voluntary accreditation program for institutions that meet those standards, produce resource publications and tools, conduct educational conferences, and offer certification for correctional health professionals.
Lead Your Facility to a Safer, Healthier, and Better-Prepared Future
Amid shrinking budgets and growing challenges in corrections, jails and prisons are required to provide constitutionally acceptable care. NCCHC has the resources and programs you need to meet the challenge of correctional health care excellence.
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NCCHC’s highly respected Standards serve as a framework to ensure that systems, policies, and procedures are in keeping with nationally recognized best practices. NCCHC Standards cover health services; mental health care; juvenile care, and opioid treatment programs.
Accreditation provides public recognition that correctional facilities are meeting NCCHC’s nationally recognized standards for quality health care services. Accreditation reduces exposure to costly liability and recognizes the institution’s commitment to providing quality patient care through use of the Standards and national guidelines.
Full-service consulting for correctional health systems to help you identify, solve, and prevent your most important challenges from the most trusted name in correctional health care. Avoid costly litigation, mitigate a wide array of correctional health care risks, and reduce undesirable outcomes for staff and incarcerated people.
The Certified Correctional Health Professional program recognizes mastery of national standards and the knowledge expected of leaders in this complex field. Specialty certification is available for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician associates, and mental health and advanced professionals.