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Behind the curtains the ACHSA board is hard at work determining the focus for the 2016 conference, lining up speakers and vendors.
correctional healthcare conference
Behind the curtains the ACHSA board is hard at work determining the focus for the 2016 conference, lining up speakers and vendors.
From my inbox to yours!
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Letter from the president of COCHS
Dear Colleague,
With the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) recognized the potentially huge implications of parity and Medicaid expansion for the criminal justice system. We have published several papers on these issues, all of which are available on our website at: www.cochs.org.
But the ACA is having other, less widely recognized impacts as well, most notably by driving the creation of consumer-driven health care systems within correctional settings, as well as the establishment of payment arrangements based on value instead of volume.
Two new papers from COCHS address these developments in depth:
I think you will find both these reports very informative. I encourage you to read them and share them with your colleagues.
Best wishes,
Steven Rosenberg
President, COCHS
In Reducing Recidivism: States Deliver Results, the National Reentry Resource Center (NRRC) highlights eight states that have achieved reductions in statewide recidivism in recent years: Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wisconsin. The report focuses on statewide recidivism data for adults released in 2007 and 2010 with a three-year follow-up period, offering a current snapshot of criminal justice outcomes in these states. The report also features examples of recidivism-reduction strategies and programs that the states have undertaken in this timeframe, as well as additional data on the state’s criminal justice populations through 2013.