OVERVIEW

National Conference On Correctional Health Care 2024 is organized by National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) and will be held from Oct 19 - 23, 2024 at Paris Las Vegas Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.

Description:
Amplify -- Engage -- Empower

  • Amplify the many ways the field is stepping up to provide patient care.
  • Engage with other professionals to learn from the experts and each other.
  • Empower your team to use best practices and to support each other in a challenging environment.

Come to the National Conference and join more than 1,000 correctional health care professionals for five days of education and networking. There's no better place to find peers from similar facilities/agencies from all over the country.  Get your questions answered. Help your facility reduce risk, improve safety, and avoid adverse outcomes.

Conference Educational Objectives:

  • Demonstrate understanding of correctional health care issues, including quality of care, access to care, financial management, and workforce development
  • Identify major health care, research and policy issues facing incarcerated individuals, including infectious diseases, chronic diseases, mental illness, substance abuse, and special needs (e.g., women’s issues, juvenile health, geriatrics, disability, and end-of-life)
  • Demonstrate increased understanding of skills necessary to better manage common medical, nursing, dental, and psychological problems found in correctional settings
  • Describe legal, ethical, and administrative issues and develop solutions for the correctional setting

Reasons To Attend:

  • CHOOSE from 100 educational presentations
  • CONNECT with peers from all over the country 
  • EARN up to 32 continuing education credits
  • GAIN insights from leading experts in correctional and public health
  • VIEW problem-solving products and services in the exhibit hall

Conference Sessions:
Conference registration entitles you to attend any session you select. A detailed schedule will be posted shortly. Get up to date information across all aspects of the correctional health care.  

  • 340B Compliance Basics and Opportunities
  • A Roadmap for MOUD Success
  • Addressing Diversion Among Medications for Opioid Use Disorder
  • Addressing Mental Health Disparities for Racial and Ethnic Minorities
  • An Investigation of Diversion of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in U.S. Correctional Facilities
  • Antibiotic Resistance and Stewardship: Role of Infection Control
  • Approaches to Optimize Healthcare Delivery with a Reduced Workforce
  • Assessment of Violence: Safer Management Using a Team Approach
  • Avoiding Medication Errors in Juvenile Facilities
  • Become Unstuck: Effective Alliance-Building with Challenging Patients
  • Better Medication Documentation, Better Outcomes
  • Breaking the Opioid Cycle: from Arrest to Successful Housing
  • Building a Strong Defense: Effective Charting and Detailed Depositions
  • Cancer Care: Barriers and Best Practices
  • Caring for Transgender and Gender Diverse Patients
  • CCHP Certification: Navigating Your Path to Success
  • CDC Recommendations for Rising Tuberculosis Incidence
  • Chronic Medical Care for Diagnostic Excellence
  • Chronic Suicide Risk Factors of Justice-Involved Individuals
  • Clinical and Legal Considerations for Managing Withdrawal
  • Clinical Insights for Mastering Special Diet Orders
  • Combating the Syphilis Epidemic
  • Comprehensive HIV Care: Pre-Planning, Prevention, and Post-Release Support
  • Comprehensive Nursing Neurological and Stroke Assessment
  • Concerns and Strategies for Justice-Involved Women
  • Continuous Quality Improvement and Quality Assurance: Working in Harmony
  • Continuous Quality Improvement: Strategies and Techniques to Measure Change
  • Coping With the Lethal Suicide Denier
  • Correctional Nursing: Elevating Your Practice
  • Dementia-Friendly Health Care Challenges and Opportunities
  • Dental Antibiotic Stewardship and Use
  • Do I have to go to the Dentist? Preventative Oral Health
  • Documentation Tips and Tricks
  • Effective Onboarding for Trainers and Administrators
  • Effective Suicide Prevention in Juvenile Facilities
  • Effective Use of Continuous Glucose Monitors in Prisons
  • Empowering Compliance and Quality Improvement through Business Intelligence
  • Enhancing Performance through SBAR Implementation
  • Enhancing Substance Use Disorder Treatment in a Men's Prison
  • Evaluating Mental Health Medication and Addressing Refusals
  • Fit to Proceed: Developing a Sustainable Jail-Based Competency Restoration Program
  • From Internal Reporting to Customizing Care: Elevate Your EMR
  • Gabapentinoids: Overview, Safety and Risks
  • Get Organized! Using NCCHC Standards
  • Holistic Nursing: Resolving Patient Issues with Integrative Care Techniques
  • How to Build Correctional Health RFPs to Reduce Lawsuits and Improve Outcomes
  • How to Successfully Pass a DEA Audit for Your OTP Program
  • Human-Centered Design and Pilot of a Reentry Program
  • Identifying and Addressing Autism
  • I'm Still Here: Caring for Our Aging Population
  • Implementing a Large-Scale HCV Treatment Program Without an EHR
  • Implementing Community Standards for Women's Reproductive Health Care
  • Implementing MAT Continuum of Care in Jails: Lessons Learned
  • Implementing the Certified Peer Program: Benefits for Security and Patients
  • Improving Care for High Utilizers of Urgent and Hospital Care
  • Improving Job Readiness With Mindfulness
  • Improving Reintegration through Collaborative Partnerships
  • In-Custody Deaths: Managing the Aftermath
  • Individualized Suicide Risk Assessment and Intervention
  • Innovative Approaches to Medicaid Access and Continuity of Care for Youths
  • Innovative Strategies for Correctional Health Recruiting and Retention
  • Leadership Challenges: Surviving and Thriving
  • Leadership in Medicine: An Opportunity to Grow
  • Lessons Learned: A Decade of Experience With an Intensive Mental Health Unit
  • Leveraging New Federal Policies to Expand Access to Substance Use Care and Strengthen Reentry
  • Management of the Patient with Hemophilia
  • Managing Hunger Strikes: Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Best Practices
  • Moral Injury: Addressing the "Soul Wounds" of the Health Care Workforce
  • Mother Antonia: A Tribute to Lift Your Spirits
  • Motivational Interviewing for Lifestyle Change and Patient Compliance
  • Navigating Challenges and Advancements in Geriatric Care
  • Navigating Legal Challenges in Corrections: Key Risks and Considerations
  • New Ideas for Adolescent Sexual Health Education
  • Nutritional Characteristics of State Prison Menus
  • Oral Versus Injectable Medication Assisted Therapy
  • Outcomes Associated with MOUD: A Systematic Literature Review
  • Outside the Walls: Best Practices in Juvenile Reentry
  • Peer Education to Reduce Health Disparities
  • Pioneering CMS 1115 Medicaid Waivers and Its Impact on Reentry
  • Policies and Practices for Successful Youth Suicide Prevention
  • Predictably Unpredicted: The Disconnect Between Data Science and Patient Care
  • Prescriber Challenges: Abused and Misused Medications
  • Prevalence and Prevention of Fungal Infections
  • Principles for a Viable Suicide Prevention Program
  • Psychopharmacy: Risks and Best Practices
  • Quality Improvement's Model Measures
  • Rebuilding Your Continuous Quality Improvement Program
  • Reducing Suicide Risk by Enhancing Resilience
  • Sick Call: An Urgent Care Model
  • Sickle Cell Disease Review
  • Strategies for Reducing Solitary Confinement of Seriously Mental Ill Patients
  • Strategies to Support Emergency Care in Custody in Australia
  • Success: A Positive Relationship Between MAT and Recidivism
  • Successes and Challenges in Establishing a Jail Pharmacy
  • Supporting Behavior Change and Overcoming Resistance
  • The First 90 Days: A Guide to Navigating the Early Stages of Litigation
  • The Intersection of Ethics and Correctional Nursing
  • The Promise and Problems of Immune Therapy for Cancer
  • The Significance of Universal Hepatitis A Vaccine Recommendations for the Incarcerated Population
  • Treating Complex PTSD: A Psychiatric Perspective
  • Treatment Strategies to Reduce Chronic Self-Injury in Emotionally Dysregulated Individuals
  • Trends in Alcohol Use Disorder: Impact on Screening and Treatment
  • Turning Sick Call and Chronic Care Upside Down
  • Using Technology for Vulnerable Populations
  • Verbal Jiujitsu: How to Avoid Confrontation and Maintain Good Patient Relationships
  • Wellness Training Benefits for Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
  • What Did I Say? Cultural Sensitivity and Language
  • Writing Effective Policies and Procedures

KEY DATES

Event Start Date
19 Oct, 2024
Event Start Date
Event End Date
23 Oct, 2024
Event End Date
Credits

Continuing Education Credits:
The maximum CE hours indicated below include participation in preconference seminars.

CCHPs: Certified Correctional Health Professionals may earn up to 32.5 contact hours of Category I continuing education for recertification.

Nurses: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. NCCHC designates this educational activity for a maximum of 32.5 contact hours.

Nurse Practitioners: AANP and many states accept ANCC, ACCME or general CE certificates. Please check with your state's requirements.

PA: Many states and the AAPA accept ACCME certificates. Please check with your state's requirements.

Physicians: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

NCCHC designates this live activity for a maximum of 32.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Psychologists: The National Commission on Correctional Health Care is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. NCCHC maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational activity has been approved for up to 32.5 hours of credit. (See the Schedule at a Glance for sessions that have been approved for APA credit.)

Social Workers: This program will apply to the National Association of Social Workers for 32.5 continuing education contact hours.

General: If your profession is not listed here, you can receive a general continuing education certificate for 32.5 hours. 

  • 32.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  • 32.5 Contact Hours
  • 32.5 C.E. contact hours
  • 32.5 Hours
  • TARGET AUDIENCE

    PhysicianNursingDentistPharmacistPhysician AssistantHealthcare ProfessionalsNursesSocial WorkersPsychiatristsTherapistsLicensed Professional CounselorsNurse PractitionersPsychologistsAdministrators

    SPECIALITIES

    Healthcare Management

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    CONFERENCE VENUE

    LocationParis Las Vegas Hotel
    3655 S Las Vegas Blvd

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