What hearing services do you offer?

Hearing screenings, diagnostic audiometric testing, hearing aid fittings, and follow-up care.

Do you work with veterans and VA benefits?

Yes. We help eligible veterans access hearing care and hearing aids through applicable VA programs.

How often should hearing be tested?

Adults should have a baseline test and periodic re-checks, especially with noise exposure or noticeable changes in hearing.

How do I book an appointment?

Call (424) 204-2382 or email info@mobileaudiologyforcaliforniacorrections.com to schedule.

How does on-site audiology fit California's correctional health system?

CCHCS delivers care across all 31 CDCR institutions under Title 15 regulations. On-site audiology supports the 2026 NCCHC standards' timely-access and documentation emphasis without transporting people off-site.

Can hearing tests be done inside a secure facility?

Yes. A boothless, ANSI-compliant audiometer with ambient-noise monitoring lets our in-house audiologist run a defensible clinic inside the facility, coordinated with custody.

What does on-site testing save?

Every avoided transport saves escort staffing, vehicle time, and security exposure, and removes the scheduling delay that pushes a simple hearing check weeks out.

Mobile Audiology for California Corrections | CDCR Hearing Screening Services

Hearing screening across California's prisons.

Mobile Audiology for California Corrections delivers CDCR-approved audiometric testing to all 33 adult institutions. ANSI S3.6 compliant soundproof booths, inmate and officer screening, mandatory documentation protocols, and hearing conservation coordination — compliance-ready, facility-coordinated.

Educational

NCCHC's 2026 Standards Meet California's Correctional Health System

Two things frame correctional hearing care in California this year. First, the National Commission on Correctional Health Care's 2026 Standards for Health Services in Jails and Prisons took effect January 1, 2026, arriving in a digital format with expanded telehealth credentialing and a recommended-documentation list for every standard, and leaning on technology to ensure timely access to care.

Second, California Correctional Health Care Services delivers medical, dental, and mental-health care across all 31 CDCR institutions statewide, under regulations published in Title 15, Division 3 of the California Code of Regulations. That is a large, distributed system in which timely, well-documented on-site screening is a genuine operational challenge.

On-site audiology answers both pressures at once: it brings calibrated hearing testing inside the facility, supports the timely-access emphasis the 2026 standards care about, and produces the itemized documentation a survey now expects.

It helps to remember why hearing turns up so often in a correctional population. NIOSH reports that about 27 million U.S. workers are exposed to hazardous noise each year and roughly 22 million to ototoxic chemicals, and that about one in nine people in the working population already has some hearing difficulty. Many incarcerated adults arrive from exactly the industries — construction, manufacturing, transport, agriculture — where that exposure concentrates, and arrive without ever having had a baseline audiogram. Screening inside the facility is frequently the first hearing test a person has had in their adult life.

The clinical stakes go beyond the audiogram. NIOSH notes that hearing loss is associated with tinnitus, cardiovascular problems, cognitive decline and poorer mental health, and that people who cannot hear well are more likely to be injured. Inside a facility, unheard instructions are also a custody and safety problem: a direction not followed can read as defiance rather than deafness. Identifying and correcting hearing loss is therefore not only a health-services obligation — it measurably reduces friction on the yard and in the housing unit.

Sources: NCCHC — 2026 Standards; California Correctional Health Care Services; NIOSH — Occupational Hearing Loss

August 1, 20268 min read

Informative

Hearing Care Behind the Wall Reduces Risk and Delay

Moving an incarcerated person out of a facility for a routine hearing test is expensive and carries security exposure — an escort, transport, and time through public space for what is often a fifteen-minute screen. For high-volume, low-acuity audiology, an outside appointment rarely makes sense.

Bringing an in-house audiologist and a boothless, ANSI-compliant audiometer inside the wall removes the transport entirely. Access improves, risk drops, and the record is complete and on-site — the combination the 2026 correctional-health standards are pushing facilities toward.

Run the arithmetic on a single outside appointment and the case makes itself. A community audiology visit for one incarcerated patient typically consumes two correctional officers for most of a shift, a vehicle, restraints and search procedures on both ends, and a block of clinic time that has to be held open regardless of whether the transport arrives on schedule — all for a screening that takes about a quarter of an hour of actual clinical work. Multiply by a caseload and the transport line, not the audiology line, becomes the real cost centre.

On-site delivery collapses that. A calibrated boothless system brought through the sally port screens a full list in a day, with results entered on-site and no gap between the test and the chart. It also removes the highest-risk element of the entire episode: movement through public space. Facilities that make this switch usually find that the argument for it stopped being clinical after the first month and became an operational one — fewer escorts, fewer cancellations, fewer appointments carried forward to next quarter.

Sources: CCHCS — Health Care Regulations; NCCHC Resources — 2026; NIOSH — Occupational Hearing Loss

July 24, 20266 min read

Field Notes

Field Notes: A Day of Boothless Audiology Inside a CDCR Facility

A screening day inside a correctional facility runs on coordination. Equipment is logged in and out, movements are timed with custody staff, and the clinical station is set up in whatever room keeps ambient noise low enough for the audiometer's monitor to stay green.

The audiologist verifies calibration first, watches background levels throughout, and ties every result to the right individual. Handled cleanly, an entire caseload is screened without a single person leaving the building — the quiet efficiency that makes on-site audiology worth doing.

The technical discipline behind a boothless day is ambient noise. ANSI/ASA S3.1 sets maximum permissible ambient noise levels for audiometric test rooms — specified in octave and one-third-octave bands from 125 Hz to 8000 Hz, for ears-covered and ears-uncovered conditions and for three test frequency ranges — because background sound masks the very thresholds you are trying to measure. A room that sounds quiet to a visitor can still be too loud at 250 Hz. Continuous monitoring during testing, rather than a single check on arrival, is what keeps a boothless result trustworthy.

The audiometer itself has to be defensible too. The instrument is calibrated against the ANSI/ASA S3.6 audiometer standard, with a functional listening and biological check before use and periodic laboratory calibration on a documented cycle; transducers are matched to the unit they were calibrated with and treated accordingly when equipment moves between institutions. None of this is visible on the finished audiogram — which is exactly why we record it, so the result can be defended a year later by someone who was not in the room.

Sources: CCHCS; OSHA 29 CFR 1910.95

July 17, 20265 min read

The Mobile Audiology for California Corrections difference

We combine real expertise with genuine care — and we make it easy to say yes. Licensed audiologists inside the wall, calibrated boothless testing with ambient noise monitored throughout, and documentation built for the timely-access expectations correctional health standards now carry. Here is what you can expect when you work with Mobile Audiology for California Corrections.