Accreditation > NCCHC

The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) is a voluntary, not-for-profit accreditation organization that is well-known and well-respected among the nation's prisons, jails, and juvenile detention facilities.  Its mission is to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons, and juvenile confinement facilities. The process of accreditation is an external peer review in which NCCHC grants public recognition to correctional institutions that meet its nationally accepted Standards for Health Services.  Through the accreditation process, NCCHC provides a professional judgment regarding health services rendered and assists correctional facilities in their continued improvement.  The area covered by standards include: facility governance and administration; maintaining a safe and health environment; personnel and training; health care services support; inmate care and treatment; health promotion and disease prevention; special inmate needs and services; health records; and medical-legal issues.

NCCHC accreditation offers many benefits:

• It promotes, documents and offers suggestions on maintaining an efficient, well-managed system of health care delivery.
• Accreditation can help provide financial assets by minimizing the occurrence of adverse events.
• In many instances, accreditation reduces liability premiums and protects facilities from lawsuits related to health care.
• Accreditation also benefits the health of the public, staff and inmates by assuring that those incarcerated and released receive adequate and appropriate health care.

The Accreditation Committee of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care awarded the Clark County Detention Center  its initial accreditation in 1993. The Facility continued to  receive reaccreditation in 1996, 1999, and 2002.

Visit www.ncchc.org for more information.