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Licensing’s “ADVICE Collaborative”

By |2017-02-10T09:50:35-07:00March 28th, 2013|Licensing|

Our Licensing team routinely analyzes the most frequent and important deficiencies that we observe and posts the data on our website.  We use the data to help educate the folks that we license… and to identify good topics for provider training and technical assistance (public health interventions).  For example, our medical facilities licensing team has found that infection control [...]

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Rules Rollin’ Along

By |2012-09-26T08:32:39-07:00September 26th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

Our regulatory reform effort in Licensing is rolling along.  We’ve already held rules work group meetings with representatives from behavioral health inpatient and residential facilities and are incorporating the Stakeholder comments into our next iteration of our draft rules.  In November, we’ll start holding rules work group meetings with representatives from behavioral health outpatient settings. This’ll truly [...]

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ADHS Benefits Eligibility

By |2012-09-17T09:22:13-07:00September 17th, 2012|General|

We often get questions from people at meetings and our stakeholders about citizenship or residency requirements for programs that ADHS runs.  It really depends on the program and with dozens of programs, there’s no one answer.  We posted a frequently asked question sheet on our website, but we wanted to make it even easier for people [...]

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All Aboard the Transformation Express

By |2017-02-10T09:51:02-07:00August 23rd, 2012|Behavioral Health|

I’ve written several times about the importance of laying the strong foundation for integration effort through our rule making process.  Three drafts in and countless hours later, the behavioral health integration rulemaking process is beginning to take shape. It was just last fall when we took the show on the road and traveled the state promoting [...]

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Affordable Care Act Info

By |2012-08-07T14:58:24-07:00August 7th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

Now that the Supreme Court has spoken regarding the Affordable Care Act- States have a lot more clarity around the decisions they'll need to make and what they need to do to implement the law.  The Governor kicked off a process to review the options and engage Stakeholders for their input this week. Additional meetings are being scheduled in the coming [...]

Behavioral Health Licensing Rulemaking Update

By |2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00May 31st, 2012|Behavioral Health|

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts- we’re in the beginning phases of overhauling our regulations for licensing behavioral health facilities.  This’ll be a long process- and the finish line is in mid-2013.  We’re starting with a set of what we’ll call “straw-man” language that we can use as a way to start the discussions.  We’ve [...]

AZ Biomedical Research Commission Roadmap

By |2017-02-10T09:51:22-07:00December 28th, 2011|General|

Last legislative session, the Legislature and Governor made a statutory change that moved the AZ Biomedical Research Commission to our agency.   The Commission basically awards contracts for research projects that translate into interventions to save lives.  Our funding (a few million dollars per year) comes from tobacco taxes and some lottery funds.  Shoana Anderson has volunteered to serve as [...]

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Multiple Chronic Conditions- an Expensive Public Health Threat

By |2017-02-10T09:51:31-07:00October 17th, 2011|Prevention|

I’ve written several pieces over the last few weeks highlighting our efforts to better integrate primary healthcare into the treatment plans for folks with mental illnesses- but the issue of providing better coordinated care for folks with multiple chronic medical conditions is really far bigger than this integration issue.  More than 25% of Americans have multiple [...]

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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