Recruiting and retaining correctional health care professionals remains a major challenge across the field. This session presents research from NCCHC Resources and the NCCHC Foundation examining the factors that shape workforce recruitment and retention in correctional health care settings. Examine key trends, operational impacts, and what the findings reveal about building stronger, more sustainable correctional health care teams.

Educational Objectives

• Summarize grounded-theory themes derived from qualitative data
• Explain differences in recruitment and retention across correctional health disciplines
• Discuss strategies that strengthen workforce recruitment and retention

Level: Intermediate