Going to the NCCHC Conference in New Orleans?

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Explore easy correctional pharmacy solutions in the Big Easy.

We're heading to New Orleans for the 2026 NCCHC Spring Conference on Correctional Healthcare. Meet with our CEO Mark Zilner, Strategic Alliance Executive Paul Britt, and Correctional Account Executive Brian Davey at booth 507 in the exhibit hall starting April 19. Help yourself to some Diamond-branded keepsakes, register to win a prize, and bring your most pressing pharmacy questions for our team to answer. Whether you work for a correctional facility, medical group, or somewhere in between, we look forward to exploring how our decades of correctional health expertise can help your patients and your facility.

Exhibit Hall Hours:

Sunday, April 19 - 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM

Monday, April, 20 - 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Tuesday, April 21 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Outside the exhibit hall, OPTICS clinical pharmacist and PodcastRx host Chris Bender will give a conference presentation titled "113 From Scarcity to Strategy: Understanding and Mitigating Drug Shortages". His presentation promises to take a deep dive into the complex, multifactorial causes of drug shortages and what steps providers and clinicians can take to manage them.

OPTICS Presentation Date/Time:

April 20, 2026, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

After you've spent some quality time with us at booth 507, hop next door to booth 505 to meet with our subsidiary SapphireHealth. Their corrections-focused electronic health record just got even more robust with a recent SureScripts Medication History for Reconciliation certification. Learn about this and the full array of corrections-specific features and modules with Sales and Implementation Coordinator Nikki Tuskey, Lead Architect Geff Caruso, and Business Development Manager Cathleen Zilner. Grab a sweet treat, and be sure to ask for a bottle!

The Spring NCCHC Conference is one of our favorite conferences, especially for the host city. New Orleans, of course, is the birthplace of jazz. To be a great jazz musician, top-notch improvisational skills are required. The ability to improvise is also an essential quality for an effective correctional pharmacy provider. With our forty-plus years of experience and expertise, we have the flexibility to work with facilities of all sizes to create comprehensive patient-centered, cost-avoidant pharmacy programs. We’ve honed our improvisational chops by anticipating, listening to, and responding to our clients' unique needs to deliver the most effective pharmacy solutions. And we’ve done this for over 1,500 correctional facilities across the country.

If your correctional pharmacy program needs to pivot in a new direction, come see us in New Orleans.