SAMHSA

Having a medical home – a trusted, reliable source of continuing health care – can ease the process for people leaving jail so that they’re less likely to return.

—Dick Bohrer
COCHS Advisory Committee Member

Departments of corrections and health providers from the community should join together in the common project of delivering high quality health care that protects prisoners and the public.

—Confronting Confinement:
A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons

By collaborating with community health centers, jails can be part of the solution to improving both public safety and public health.

—Keith Barton, M.D.
COCHS' Medical Director

COCHS

Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

Working Group on Health Reform and Criminal Justice

Topic
The potential impact of the ACA on the segment of the expanded population that intersects with the criminal justice system.This is a report of a working group that was co-funded by SAMHSA through its Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and its Strategic Initiative
on Trauma and Justice.

Presenter
Steven Rosenberg, President of COCHS

by Dr. Radut.

SAMHSA

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