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Update to Arizona Health Improvement Plan Published

By |2019-08-23T09:46:02-07:00August 23rd, 2019|General|

The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) is excited to announce we have published the 2019 Update to the Arizona Health Improvement Plan (AzHIP). The purpose of the AzHIP is to describe how ADHS and our community partners are working together to improve the health and wellness of all Arizonans. Receiving annual updates, the AzHIP [...]

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State Hospital Continues to Receive Joint Commission Accreditation

By |2017-02-10T09:49:08-07:00October 6th, 2015|Behavioral Health|

We received notification this week from the Joint Commission that the Arizona State Hospital will continue to be accredited for all hospital services through October 2017. The acknowledgement confirms the state hospital is meeting standards above and beyond general patient care. The Joint Commission accredits and certifies health care organizations in the United States. Accreditation [...]

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Live Broadcast: Launching of the Arizona State Health Improvement Plan

By |2017-02-10T09:49:37-07:00May 31st, 2014|General|

We’ll be having a live web broadcast about our State Health Improvement Plan on Monday, June 2, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. The web broadcast will provide an overview of the State Health Assessment and State Health Improvement Plan… including the next steps.  Tune in if you can.

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Publishing Our Accreditation Success

By |2017-02-10T09:49:56-07:00December 24th, 2013|General|

As soon as the health department accreditation movement started in early 2010 we quickly recognized that statewide public health accreditation could substantially help us with our goal of achieving improvements in public health outcomes in AZ.  Our first task was to scope out the resources we’d need to achieve statewide accreditation and then tap into some [...]

Our New Strategic Plan

By |2017-02-10T09:50:55-07:00October 17th, 2012|General|

The vision of the Department is to ideally achieve a state of Health and Wellness for all Arizonans and our mission is to promote, protect, and improve the health and wellness of individuals and communities in Arizona. The updated mission and vision statements are helping us build public health value in-house as well as in [...]

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Public Health’s 10 Essential Services

By |2017-02-10T09:51:20-07:00January 12th, 2012|General|

Public Health’s 10 Essential Services Let’s take a step back and look at the big picture - what is public health?  Public health is everywhere and is a part of the infrastructure that keeps our communities safe and healthy and focuses on the entire populations while other models may focus on the individual.  In the 1900s [...]

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Looking Forward, 2012

By |2017-02-10T09:51:22-07:00January 3rd, 2012|General|

Looking forward, 2012 is going to be another busy year for all of us.  During the last Deputy/Assistant Director meeting, managers shared the biggest priorities for the next six months and I will share a few of the highlights throughout this week in our blog.     One key focus that echoed throughout everyone’s summary was an [...]

Looking to the Horizon

By |2017-02-10T09:51:33-07:00September 27th, 2011|General|

I’m proud of a ton of things that we’ve accomplished for the folks of Arizona over the last 2 ½ years together.  Two of the things that I’m most proud of has been our collective ability to think clearly about ways that we can achieve better health outcomes in Arizona using creative thinking, enthusiasm and [...]

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