Health Systems Development

U of A Public Health Snags National Recognition

By |2017-02-10T09:50:21-07:00June 27th, 2013|Prevention|

The Arizona Center for Rural Health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the U of A was recently recognized as an Outstanding Rural Health Organization for 2013 by The National Rural Health Association. The Center partners with Arizona’s rural communities to improve access to healthcare, reduce the costs of care, [...]

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Doctor Shortage – a Public Health Concern

By |2017-02-10T09:50:44-07:00January 30th, 2013|Affordable Care Act, General|

Public Health tracks the number of healthcare workers – physicians, dentists and psychiatrists – to make sure we have enough to take care of the community.  In Arizona we’ve been challenged to recruit and keep those professionals – and we have numerous Health Professional Shortage Areas.  Just to eliminate the current shortages, we’d need an [...]

“Be SunWise & Play Sun Smart”

By |2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00June 5th, 2012|General|

Aksel Laudon, a 6th-grade student at Kyrene Centennial Middle School in Phoenix, is this year’s “Be SunWise and Play Sun Smart” poster-drawing contest winner. Aksel’s drawing was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks from more than 7,000 student poster entries.  Aksel and his teacher Jeffrey Garrett, and their families will be celebrated at the June 5 DBacks game in a pre-game award ceremony on [...]

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Doctor/Patient Density- Our Online Gap Analysis Map

By |2012-04-30T09:36:20-07:00April 30th, 2012|General|

In public health it’s good to know where the resources are – and where they're short. Our Health Systems Development team created an excellent online tool to help our partners keep track of resources --  to see where we have enough physicians and where we could use more.  It also shows how much of an area is [...]

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Building the AZ Health Care Workforce: The National Health Service Corps

By |2012-01-20T09:30:27-07:00January 20th, 2012|General|

Our Health Systems Development shop just got a new workforce recruitment and retention grant from the National Health Service Corps to improve the number of healthcare providers that practice where we have shortages (technically called underserved areas).  The Corps offers medical, dental, and behavioral health providers the opportunity to repay their student loan debts in [...]

Community Health Centers

By |2017-02-10T09:52:16-07:00June 1st, 2010|General|

The federal government has committed to significant new funding for community health centers in the coming years.  Nationally, about $13B will become available over the next 5 years for community health center expansion ($9.5B); facility improvement ($1.5B) and workforce development ($1.5B).  This translates into about 7,000 to 10,000 new community health center sites nationally over [...]

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