Founded in 1983, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is the only major organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities. NCCHC professionals are primarily physicians, mental health professionals, medical directors, nurses and other allied health professionals and administrators who provide health services to more than 2 million individuals housed in our nation’s correctional institutions.
The patients NCCHC professionals treat represent medically underserved populations. These inmates receive a broad spectrum of health services ranging from treatment for infectious diseases (e.g., hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis) to management of chronic illnesses (e.g., asthma, diabetes, hypertension) to general health care. They also receive dental care, mental health care, substance abuse treatment and health education. To meet this heavy demand for government-mandated health care, correctional facilities spend nearly $6 billion dollars on health care services, supplies and equipment each year. And as inmate populations rise, so do these expenditures. At the state level, correctional health care costs have been growing by 10% annually.
These active corrections health professionals rely on NCCHC’s wealth of programs, services, conferences and publications to help them do their jobs better. NCCHC professionals are selectable by job title, work setting, and sub-group.
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