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\nCrime Rate Levels To EndDecade Of Declines…………2Some States UnderreportHispanic Inmates …………3Illinois'Parole Sweep SwellsCook County Jails………3Bush Names Parole Chief...3OJJDP Issues Guide To HelpWin Block Grants………….3Comment On Drug Use.……7  \nIN THE COURTS  \nJustices Will Decide On PrisonRule Affecting Sex Predators 43rd Circuit Denies Officer'sHarassment Complaint………46th Circuit Allows LimitsOn Inmates Giving Advice.4  \nACROSS THE STATES  \nAlaska,Arkansas………………5Colorado……………………….5District of Columbia…………6Florida………………………6Louisiana,Maryland………6Montana,Nebraska…………6Oklahoma……………   ……6Pennsylvania,Texas…………7Utah,Wisconsin……………7  \nFUNDING  \nReentry Grants……………7  \n# CorrectionSDIGEST\n\nThe only independent news service for the corrections professional  \nThe nation's two largest correc- tional accrediting bodies have re-written their accreditation standardsto make them more outcomes basedand oriented,changes that will pro-foundly influence the delivery andprovision of health care serviceswithin correctional settings.  \nThe American Correctional As-sociation(ACA)and the NationalCommission on Correctional HealthCare(NCCHC)have adopted per-formance-based standards that iden-tify goals and objectives needed toachieve accreditation,a major de-parture from previous standards thatprimarily focused on processes andprocedures rather than outcomes.  \n\"Essentially,performance basedmeans accreditation based on re-sults,\"says Kathleen McKim,RN,administrator of Health Care Pro-grams for ACA,which representsmore than 20,000 correctional em-ployees.  \n\"Each health care standard de-fines a goal or condition that needsto be achieved and maintained.Theold standards outlined activities in-stead of goals.”  \nThe previous ACA accredita-tion standards,for example,listedaccess to care as a standard,a proc-ess more readily defined as an activ-  \n# Two Largest Accrediting BodiesAdopt Outcomes-Based Standards\n\nity than an outcomes based meas-urement.Under the new standards,access to care comprises one com-ponent of an expected practice,oneof several practices that constitutesan overall performance standard.  \n“The new performance standardsays that offenders will have unim-peded access to a continuum ofhealth care services,”explainsMcKim,citing an example.  \n“The activities are now ex-pected practices.When we go inand audit those expected practices,they add up to a performance basedstandard.”  \nMcKim describes the perform-ance based standards as proactive\"measurement tools,\"that will en-able correctional institutions toidentify and correct problems whilestriving for continuous quality im-provement(CQI).  \nACA officials spent three yearsrevamping the standards before un-veiling the current performancebased measurements for field testsin July 2000.  \nSo far one correctional institu-tion,the David Wade CorrectionalCenter in Homer,La.,has under-gone ACA's accreditation processwith the new standards,obtainingaccreditation from the organization  \nPage 2  \nearly this year.  \nACA has six more field testsscheduled this year,which will beused to fine-tune the accreditationstandards.  \n“We are taking the standardsthat have been approved by ourstandards committee and imple-menting it in facilities,\"McKim ex-plains.“Correctional officials aregoing to give us feedback after our auditors come through.They arestill being accredited and held to this version but they are going to beable to voice their opinions and rec-ommendations to help with the evo-lution of the process.”  \nNot surprisingly,McKim ex-pects the standards to dramaticallyelevate the level of care in correc-tional institutions,explaining thatthe standards\"fit into the wholecomponent of continuous qualityimprovement.”  \nNCCHC,meanwhile,rewroteits accreditation standards by mak-ing them more prospective andplacing a greater emphasis on qual-ity improvement,says NCCHCVice President Scott Chavez.  \nNCCHC accredits about 500jails and prisons.  \n\"It is making what we 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