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NCCHC News
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NCCHC's
2009
Award Winners |
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Read about the honorees recognized at our awards
ceremony at the National Conference in October.
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NCCHC
Information
on Swine Flu |
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Correctional facilities look to their health services
professionals for leadership in managing a potential
outbreak. Visit the H1N1 Flu page for more information. |
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NCCHC's Journal Indexed in
Medline |
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The
Journal of Correctional Health Care is indexed in the National Library of Medicine's
Medline database of biomedical citations and abstracts. |
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Education on Medication Assisted Therapy |
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This free resource is
designed for jail administrators and others. Visit the
Education page. |
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Standards for Mental Health Services |
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NCCHC offers standards for mental health services in correctional
settings.
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CCHP Program Launches
Specialty Certification for RNs
This new certification offers registered
nurses who already participate in the Certified Correctional
Health Professional program a great opportunity to be recognized
for the work they do. The first CCHP-RN exam is taking place at
the Updates conference in April.
(Winter 2010)
NCCHC Seeks Public Comment
for Juvenile Standards Revision
As NCCHC prepares to revise its Standards for Health
Services in Juvenile Detention and Confinement Facilities we
are soliciting expert opinion on the current Juvenile
Standards from accredited facilities, practitioners and our
supporting organizations. This input will help us ensure that
the revised manual reflects the highest professional and ethical
exemplars for quality health services in juvenile correctional
facilities. Send your comments by April 15, 2010, to
juvenilestandards@ncchc.org.
Please
indicate your name and professional affiliation.
(Winter 2010)
Revised Guidelines for Disease Management
The NCCHC Policy
and Standards committee has redesigned and renamed the NCCHC
guidelines. Now called Guidelines for Disease Management in
Correctional Settings, they are streamlined and standardized in
format and content. They minimize discussion of clinical issues
that are covered more comprehensively in guidance from
governmental agencies and national organizations, instead
focusing on issues of concern in correctional settings. Each
provides a list of these valuable resources. Four guidelines
have been approved thus far: asthma, diabetes, hyperlipidemia
and hypertension. They are available in the
Resources section of
this Web site. (Winter 2010)
Pocket Guide on Schizophrenia
NCCHC is collaborating with Applied
Clinical Education to produce an educational pocket guide titled
“Caring for Individuals With Schizophrenia in Correctional
Settings and Beyond.” Written by correctional psychiatry experts
Andrew Angelino, MD, Jeffrey Metzner, MD, CCHP-A, and Henry
Weinstein, MD, the guide includes a free posttest that offers
one hour of continuing education credit for physicians, nurses
and psychologists.
Content will address treatment guidelines specific to
incarcerated patients, key issues in psychosocial and
pharmacologic treatment, strategies for risk assessment and risk
management, common barriers to adequate treatment and
challenges with preparations for reentry to the community.
The guide is supported by an educational grant from Janssen, a
Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. It will
be distributed in the first quarter of 2010.
(Fall 2009)
New
Position Statements
The NCCHC
board of directors has adopted two new position statements. One
addresses
Transgender Health Care and the other addresses Health Services
Research. Find them in the
Resources and Links section
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(Fall 2009)
NCCHC
Receives SAMHSA Reapproval to Accredit OTPs
The Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration has reauthorized
NCCHC to accredit
opioid treatment programs for an additional five years. In 2004,
NCCHC became one of six entities so authorized, and the only one
specializing in corrections.
By law, opioid treatment programs based in correctional
facilities must obtain certification from SAMHSA, but to become
certified, OTPs first must be accredited by a federally approved
body.
NCCHC standards are the foundation of the OTP
accreditation program. The Standards for Opioid Treatment
Programs in Correctional Facilities are based on federal
regulations but address the special nature of care provided in
correctional facilities. Learn more at the
Accreditation section
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(Summer 2009)
Survey Will Help to Bridge Gaps in Pandemic
Flu Assistance
As part of a nationwide effort to improve relationships
between correctional facilities and state and local health
departments, NCCHC is conducting a survey of all NCCHC-accredited
facilities asking
about health department assistance related to the H1N1
flu outbreak.
Learn more »
New SAMHSA
Grant Supports OTP Accreditation Program
The
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has
awarded NCCHC funding related to its accreditation program for
opioid treatment programs. The grant is part of SAMHSA’s effort
to reduce the costs of basic accreditation education and
accreditation surveys for OTPs. This latest grant will support
quality accreditation services that promote better and more
accessible health services for inmates, and that help OTPs to be
self-sufficient in maintaining accreditation. A priority is for
accredited OTPs to maintain quality of care and to expand their
services. (Summer 2008)
Learn more
about NCCHC's OTP accreditation program
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Board Member
Update
Alvin J. Thompson, MD, was honored by the American College
of Physicians as recipient of the Ralph O. Claypoole Sr.
Memorial Award. Bestowed at the ACP’s annual meeting in May, the
award is given to an outstanding practitioner of internal
medicine who has devoted his career to the care of patients, is
highly respected for his clinical skills and has been a role
model as a member of a clinical faculty or department of
medicine.
Thompson is a long-standing member of the NCCHC board of directors,
representing the American Medical Association for more than 20
years. After more than 60 years of practice and teaching, he is
an emeritus clinical professor of medicine at the University of
Washington.
In announcing the award, the ACP (also a supporting organization of
NCCHC) cited Thompson’s career-long dedication to the strategic
mentoring of community organizations and individuals. In 1969,
he developed the unique health plan of the Seattle Model City
program. In 2005, he was cochair of the task force that guided
the development of the acclaimed Puget Sound Health Alliance.
Thompson also was the founding president of the Washington State
Association for Biomedical Research. He has been president of
all of his city, county and state professional organizations and
has served as ACP governor for Washington and Alaska. He was
elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1978. His current
service to NCCHC includes participating on the finance committee
and representing the Commission to the AMA’s House of Delegates.
(Spring 2008)
AMA
Endorses Opioid Replacement Therapy in Corrections
The American Medical Association's house of delegates has
adopted a policy of support for "Opiate
Replacement Therapy Programs in Correctional Facilities"
(resolution no. 443). The action was taken at the AMA's annual
meeting in June. The resolution calls for the AMA to endorse
this medical treatment model as "an effective therapy in
treating opiate-addicted persons who are incarcerated" and for collaboration with NCCHC and the American Society of
Addiction Medicine in this endorsement. To read the entire
resolution, visit the AMA Web site at
www.ama-assn.org/meetings/public/annual05/refcomdannotateda05.pdf.
New
AMA Policy Backs NCCHC Standards, Accreditation
The American Medical Association
has adopted a policy of support for the National Commission on
Correctional Health Care’s standards for health services and
its accreditation program. The policy “encourage[s] all
correctional systems to support NCCHC accreditation,” and
calls for finding ways to increase funding for correctional
health services. Read the full
story. (Spring 2004)
Institute of Medicine Honors NCCHC Founders
Bernard
P. Harrison, JD, and B. Jaye Anno, PhD, CCHP-A, were
honored for their pioneering efforts that have appreciably
improved correctional health care.
Read
more... (Fall 2003)
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