COCHS Presents at March ACHSA Meeting in Orlando

Having a medical home – a trusted, reliable source of continuing health care – can ease the process for people leaving jail so that they’re less likely to return.

—Dick Bohrer
COCHS Advisory Committee Member

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

By collaborating with community health centers, jails can be part of the solution to improving both public safety and public health.

—Keith Barton, M.D.
COCHS' Medical Director

COCHS

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

COCHS Presents at March ACHSA Meeting in Orlando

Publication:

COCHS

Publication Date:

Jan 06, 2009

COCHS will feature prominently in the next professional development meeting of the American Correctional Health Services Association (ACHSA). “Turning Research into Solutions: Practical Options for Today’s Correctional Settings” will be held March 12-15 in Orlando, FL. COCHS presentations include the following:

The COCHS approach to community-based health care for jail inmates.
The role of information technology in building community linkages in correctional settings.
The clinical and program workforce challenges that local correctional facilities face.
Re-entry planning for health care during and after incarceration and the need for a comprehensive network of community service providers.

For more information about the meeting, go to www.achsa.org.

What's New

Download Medicaid Expansion and The Local Criminal Justice System, COCHS CEO Michael DuBose explains the implications of Medicaid expansion for the jail-involved population, in this article published in American Jails magazine.
Download Working Group on Health Reform and Criminal Justice a report of the SAMHSA supported working group presented by Steven Rosenberg, President of COCHS.
Download Working Group on Health Reform and Criminal Justice: Re-Tooling the Relationship a Report of the Public Welfare Foundation funded small working group on health reform and criminal justice.

RESOURCES

NACo and COCHS are convening small working groups on the implication of the PPACA's defining qualified person to include those individuals pending disposition. Sign up for more information regarding this partnership.
COCHS M.A.P. Tool 2.0 ^@ is COCHS' web application that provides GIS technology for reentry planning.