253419 Post-Prison Reentry and Health: Addressing the Health Impacts of Incarceration on Returning Prisoners and Their Communities: The Transitional Health Clinic Model

Monday, October 31, 2011: 1:15 PM

Diana Lapp, MD , Unity Health Care, Washington, DC
     
Unity Health Care began providing health care inside the jail in October 2006 and thus offered continuity of care for from jail to the outside through Unity's established network of community health centers and homeless health care sites. This is a model of continuity of care with a direct connection between the jail and the community. Subsequently Unity opened a Re-entry Health Center that specifically services returning DC citizens from prison and assists with their social service and health care needs.

Learning Areas:
Public health administration or related administration
Social and behavioral sciences

Learning Objectives:
Explain the Unity Health Care approach to returning citizens.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Deputy Chief Medical Officer Unity Health Care, Medical Director Correctional Health DC Jail and Reentry Health Center
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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