Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) is a non-profit organization established to build partnerships between jails and community health care providers.

Our goal is to establish medical homes for offenders in their communities, helping them to stay healthy, support themselves and their families, and stay out of jail. We do this by guiding local jurisdictions in thinking through a wide range of strategies for connecting health care provided in jails with health care provided in communities.

Connectivity is our guiding principle: By establishing connectivity between jails and community health care providers, we can ensure that people with chronic and contagious diseases get the medical care they need, regardless of where they are.

COCHS was set up with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to improving the health and health care of all Americans. In addition, COCHS receives support from the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation and The California Endowment.

Learn more about COCHS.



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Departments of corrections and health providers from the community should join together in the common project of delivering high quality health care that protects prisoners and the public.

—Confronting Confinement:
A Report of the Commission on Safety
and Abuse in America’s Prisons
Download Affiliations between Health Centers and Local Correctional Facilities to Provide Continuity of Care for Offenders, a manual describing the legal relationships possible between health care centers and local correctional facilities. Produced by COCHS with Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LP, legal counsel for the National Association of Community Health Centers.
Download Contracting for Health Care Service in Local Jails and Juvenile Detention Facilities: Achieving a Community-Based Standard of Care, a guide for procuring community-based health care services in correctional facilities. Produced by COCHS with Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LP, legal counsel for the National Association of Community Health Centers.
Please visit our partner sites: Juvenile Offenders Community Health Services (JOCHS) and COCHS M.A.P.Tool 2.0©.
This initiative is being supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
675 61st Street Oakland, CA 94609
Tel: 510 595 7360 x12 info@COCHS.org