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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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2023 Guidelines for Managing Substance Withdrawal in Jails: released by US Department of Justice
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The NCCHC Young Professionals Committee is working on ways to attract and retain students and early career professionals in correctional health care.  “Correctional health
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The day of Bob S.’s last drink, June 10, 1935, is AA’s founding date.
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I recently attended the annual conference of the American Jail Association (AJA) in Omaha. AJA President Louis Quinones has made mental health a primary
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The deadline is August 4 for the 2024 Spring Conference in St. Louis.
The NCCHC Governance Board has approved a new position statement, Public Health Implications of Violence and Correctional Settings. The statement replaces Prevention of Violence