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Centurion Health Director of Infection Control and Prevention Sue Lane, RN, CCHP-A, will serve a second term on the CCHP Board of Trustees. Ms.
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The ACCP Board of Directors has asked NCCHC to share information about a hunger crisis in the prisons of Haiti. The crisis has resulted
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The NCCHC National Conference on Correctional Health Care, the largest focused event in the field, will return to Las Vegas October 22-26 with education,
In 1989 Don Henley released his single “The End of Innocence.” The first verse goes like this: Remember when the days were longAnd rolled
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The NCCHC board adopted a new position statement on Trauma-Responsive Care for Youths.
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NCCHC’s Correctional Mental Health Care Conference in Denver attracted a record number of attendees this year, with six of the nearly 500 participants supported
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Dr. Ronald Shansky, a pioneer in correctional health care, passed away on September 16 after a life dedicated to improving the medical care of
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The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office designed an opt-out testing pilot program to screen all women for syphilis.
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The new NCCHC position statement encourages correctional systems to adopt comprehensive hepatitis C programs.
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The latest in the NCCHC Foundation’s video series explores careers in correctional mental health.
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By fostering connections, we can transform corrections into a more compassionate community.
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Health Service Corps Deputy Medical Director Jamal Gwathney, MD, MPH, CCHP, has been elected to a three-year term on