Stanford Chronic Disease Self Management Program – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

Multiple Chronic Conditions- an Expensive Public Health Threat

By azdhs-admin|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 [...]

Incentivizing Chronic Disease Self-Management

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:50-07:00April 12th, 2011|Prevention|

This month AHCCCS told us that they’ve picked our Bureau of Tobacco & Chronic Disease as the state applicant for HHS’ Medicaid Incentives for Prevention of Chronic Diseases Grant. The grant proposal (which will be developed with AHCCCS) must be turned in to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services early next month. The grant [...]