Denise Rahaman and Margaret Collatt join Lorry to discuss recent correctional health care news. NICE releases draft guidelines for providing quality healthcare to prisoners First up is a story out of Britain where the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued draft guidelines on the proper care and support of people in prison. NICE is an…
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Patricia Reams, MD, MPH, CCHP-P, joins Lorry to discuss the health consequences of solitary confinement and key concepts from a new NCCHC position statement that provides guidance for correctional health professionals about the practice. The full position statement can be found HERE. Dr. Reams is a pediatrician from Richmond, VA, and immediate past chair of the National Commission on Correctional…
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(Podcast Episode 120) Johnnie Lambert, Sue Smith, and Kathy Wild join Lorry to discuss recent correctional health care new. Nurses thrust into guard duty at federal prisons USA Today is reporting that nurses, physical therapists and other senior medical staffers in the Federal Bureau of Prisons are being routinely assigned officer duties and other security-related shifts to fill chronic personnel…
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