Medical and mental health services pose serious challenges to correctional operations. It's critical to avoid pitfalls, improve outcomes, and use accreditation to avoid sentinel events and legally binding performance improvement plans. A jail's progress through the improvement process will be detailed with a focus on treatment and environment and the positive changes that can be achieved, along with discussion of the presenters' personal experiences with managing consent-decree compliance.

Educational Objectives

• Explain the process of creation of a consent decree or similar agreement
• Discuss how to understand, address, and implement suggestions from a monitor's report
• Describe how the accreditation process and guidelines can improve medical and mental health outcomes

Level:Intermediate