National Commission on Correctional Health Care (
NCCHC) 2016 "Position Statement Solitary Confinement (Isolation)."
NCCHC, April.
NCCHC accreditation may be beneficial to the companies, but it ensures only a basic level of care in prisons.(69) However, judicial standards on health care in prisons impose more rigorous requirements on MCOs.
According to Harper-Marinick, "Participation in the
NCCHC Fellows Program was an essential element in my preparation for advancement to the executive vice-chancellor/provost ceo position, and subsequently to chancellor.
Because of facility closures, consolidations, and outdated information,
NCCHC was able to provide valid contact information for medical authorities at only 1,008 (63.3%) of the 1,592 randomly selected facilities.
This contributes to under-diagnosis and under-treatment of reproductive problems, including breast and cervical cancer (
NCCHC, 2005).
NCCHC directors were certainly visionary, as evidenced by data released in 2016 by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU).
21st Annual
NCCHC Leadership Symposium A New Day for Latinos in Community Colleges The Westin South Coast Plaza | Costa Mesa, California www.ncchc.com/symposium.html
A 1991 study by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (
NCCHC) included 1,801 youths from 39 short-term and long-term correctional facilities in the U.S.