AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Community Health Center-Jail Partnerships Improve Care During and After Incarceration, Reduce Jail-Based Violence and Deaths and Enhance Access to Community-Based Care

Community Health Center-Jail Partnerships Improve Care During and After Incarceration, Reduce Jail-Based Violence and Deaths and Enhance Access to Community-Based Care

Snapshot
Summary
Community Oriented Correctional Health Services fosters partnerships between local jails and community health centers. Under these agreements, the jail contracts for the provision of health care services with the community health center, which provides coordinated services at jail entry (booking), during incarceration, and upon release back into to the community. The goal is to make correctional care an extension of the existing community health care system, recognizing that each implementation will vary with local conditions. The program reduced violence and deaths in the jail setting, and enhanced access to care among former inmates after their release into the community.
Evidence Rating
Suggestive: The evidence consists of limited pre- and post-implementation comparisons of inmate deaths in custody, along with post-implementation survey data on utilization of health care services and anecdotal reports on levels of in-jail violence.


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AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Community Health Center-Jail Partnerships Improve Care During and After Incarceration, Reduce Jail-Based Violence and Deaths and Enhance Access to Community-Based Care