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The Santa Fe County Youth Development Program has completed a successful re-accreditation through the National Commission of Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). NCCHC assists correctional facilities improve the health of their inmates/residents and the communities to which they return. Through national standards, the NCCHC helps increase the efficiency of health services delivery and organizational effectiveness.

 

“We are moving forward” said Corrections Department Director, Annabelle Romero, “This accreditation is an external example of the deep internal transforming work that’s been done over the past year in this department.”  These combined efforts work to reduce liability to the County. The re-accreditation is in effect thru 2010.