Health and Wellness

Arizona’s First Ever State Health Assessment

By |2017-02-10T09:49:50-07:00February 13th, 2014|General|

Today we published Arizona’s first ever comprehensive State Health Assessment. The objective of the State Health Assessment is to give Arizona’s public health and health care systems a clear tool to help drive future decision-making and resource allocation as we collectively design and implement evidence-based interventions to improve health and wellness outcomes across Arizona.   The [...]

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Strategic Planning and Public Health Accreditation News

By |2017-02-10T09:51:32-07:00October 6th, 2011|General|

As a follow up to my email earlier this month introducing you to the agency-wide efforts around accreditation and presentations of the draft strategic map, I'm happy to formally announce our new mission and vision: To improve the health and wellness of people and communities in Arizona (our Mission) and Health and Wellness for all Arizonans (our [...]

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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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Working Together for Health & Wellness

By |2017-02-10T09:51:34-07:00September 21st, 2011|Behavioral Health|

We’ve had to make lots of difficult decisions in response to the ongoing funding shortfalls in our behavioral health system (as well as everywhere in state government).  Many decisions (while painful in the short term) have been necessary to maintain long term system stability as Arizona continues to emerge from this unprecedented fiscal crisis.  While [...]

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AZ Developmental Disability Planning Council Grant Opportunity

By |2017-02-10T09:52:14-07:00July 9th, 2010|Uncategorized|

The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council  was established by the Governor in September 2009.  It’s part of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act of 2000.  I’m on the Council.  Our mission is to represent the interests and needs of persons with developmental disabilities throughout Arizona- especially people that are underserved.  We support [...]

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