Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) is a non-profit organization established to help communities around the country connect the health care provided in local correctional centers with health care provided in the community.

COCHS hopes to help local communities around the country reduce the incidence of chronic disease and the cost of health care.

COCHS leverages a proven program that has been identified as a model by the Centers for Disease Control, the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons and various justice, correctional and health care associations.

COCHS is supported by 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. Additionally, COCHS receives programmatic support from the Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation and the California Endowment.

Read more about COCHS' mission, History, the unique COCHS Approach, or how COCHS Benefits Communities, and COCHS' Sites.

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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

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