Opportunities and Intersections:
Health Reform, The Excellence Act, and Criminal Justice Reform

COCHS/RWJF
On November 17, 2010, COCHS with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation held Exploring Health Reform and Criminal Justice: Rethinking the Connection between Jails and Community Health.
The conference focused attention on the potential opportunities that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) may create for communities to better serve the physical and behavioral health care needs of childless adults who will be newly eligible for Medicaid in 2014 and its impact of people cycling through the criminal justice system.
The keynote speaker for the conference was former United States Assistant Attorney General, Laurie Robison.

Welcome

Welcome and Introduction

Julia Lear, Chairperson, Community Oriented Correctional Health Services

Nancy Barrand, Special Adviser for Program Development, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

A New Landscape for Public Health and Public Safety

Introduction

Michael DuBose, CEO, COCHS

Speaker

Bonita Veysey, Associate Professor, The School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers

Keynote

Introduction

Nancy Barrand

Speaker

Laurie Robinson, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice

The Criminal Justice System and Medicaid

Introduction

Steven Rosenberg

Speaker

Steve Somers, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Presenter

Allison Hamblin, Director, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Question & Answer Session


Discussants

Steve Somers, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

Allison Hamblin, Director, Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc.

David Mancuso, Senior Research Manager, Department of Social and Health Services, Washington State

Joan Erney, Chief Business Development and Public Policy Officer, Community Care

Westley Clark, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, SAMHSA

Health Reform's Impact on the Nation’s Jails

Moderator

Mady Chalk, Director, Center for Policy Research and Analysis Treatment Research Institute

Presenter

Pam Rodriguez, President, TASC

Question and Answer Session


Discussants

Mady Chalk, Director, Center for Policy Research and Analysis Treatment Research Institute

Pam Rodriguez, President, TASC

Malvise Scott, Senior Vice President, National Association of Community Health Centers

Paul Samuels, Director and President, Legal Action Center

Linda Rosenberg, President and CEO, National Council for Community Behavioral Health Care

The Path Ahead

Moderator

Steven Rosenberg, President, COCHS

Discussants

MaryAnne Lindeblad, Assistant Secretary, Aging and Disabilities Services Administration, Department of Social and Health Services

Flo Stein, Chief, Community Policy Management Section Division of MH/DD/SAS

Judge William Dressel, President, National Judicial College

Conference Issue Papers
Medicaid and Criminal Justice: The Need for Cross-System Collaboration Post Health Care Reform
Center for Health Care Strategies
Among the 16 million people who became eligible for Medicaid in 2014 by virtue of incomes at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level, many have untreated mental illnesses and substance abuse that predispose them to repeat arrests.
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The Intersection of Public Health and Public Safety in U.S. Jails: Implications and Opportunities of Federal Health Care Reform
Rutgers School of Criminal Justice
A discussion of the implications and opportunities of healthcare reform for jails from a public health perspective, beginning with an overview of U.S. jails and the characteristics of jail detainees.
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Realizing the Potential of National Health Care Reform to Reduce Criminal Justice Expenditures and Recidivism Among Jail Populations
Center for Health and Justice at TASC
As the front door to the criminal justice system, jails represent one of the largest catchment areas for people with substance use and mental health conditions,infectious diseases and other chronic health problems.
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Increasing Access to Health Insurance Coverage for Pre-trial Detainees and Individuals Transitioning from Correctional Facilities Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
American Bar Association
Offenders have a right to health care under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Although pre-trial detainees are not guaranteed this same Eighth Amendment protection, the U.S. Supreme Court has extended a similar right to them.
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