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Delaware County commissioners approve jail application for medical and mental-health accreditation
Summary
The board voted to allow the sheriff’s office to apply for accreditation of jail medical and mental-health services from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care; staff said the county has not applied for this accreditation before and hopes to have both surveys conducted simultaneously.
The Delaware County Board of Commissioners voted Feb. 20 to authorize the sheriff’s office to submit an application and sign an accreditation agreement with the National Commission on Correctional Health Care for medical and mental-health services in the county jail.
The action allows the sheriff’s office to pursue two accreditations — one for medical services and one for mental-health services — and to enter the standard accreditation agreement required by the…
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