General – Page 102 – AZ Dept. of Health Services News

Healthier US Schools Challenge Program

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:23-07:00March 10th, 2010|General, Prevention|

The federal Healthier US Schools Challenge Program establishes rigorous standards for schools’ food quality, participation in meal programs, physical activity, and nutrition education – key components that make for healthy and active kids – and provides recognition for schools that meet these standards. In the next school year, the USDA’s goal is to double [...]

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School Nutrition Overhaul

By Will Humble|2010-03-08T08:57:52-07:00March 8th, 2010|General, Prevention|

The USDA’s Child Nutrition Act is up for re-authorization this year. The program provides food to more than 31M school children through the National School Lunch Program as well as 11M that qualify for the School Breakfast Program. Many children get ½ of their daily calories at schools- making this program a great leverage point [...]

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Arizona Serves

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:23-07:00March 5th, 2010|General|

The Governor established a 20-member ArizonaSERVES Task Force www.arizonaserves.gov by Executive Order on Tuesday to help connect faith-based and non-profit organizations with opportunities to assist folks in Arizona who’ve been impacted by economic hardship. The goal of the Task Force is to better coordinate volunteer efforts statewide, and find new strategies to promote outreach and [...]

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ADHS Going Viral

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00March 2nd, 2010|General, Uncategorized|

We’re coming up on the 3 millionth view of our hand only chest compression CPR video that we posted on the Arizona Department of Health Services channel. Technically, right now we’re at 2.8M views now. This is by far the most watched video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5huVSebZpM) on our YouTube channel. Close to 1M of those views are [...]

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Do You Know Your Blood Pressure?

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00March 1st, 2010|General|

High blood pressure is at the source of roughly one in six deaths among adults annually. About one in three adult Arizonans have blood pressure that’s too high, putting huge economic demands on Medicaid, Medicare (AHCCCS) and our private health insurers (plus, of course, the loss of life). The Institute of Medicine put out a [...]

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Black History Month Celebration

By Will Humble|2010-02-22T11:16:34-07:00February 22nd, 2010|General|

Please try to carve out some time to celebrate ADHS' 7th Annual Black History Month event. The 2010 celebration will happen Thursday, February 25, from 11:00am – 1:00pm, in the parking lot west of 1740 Building . The theme is… “ Health Care… Where We’ve Been… and Where We’re Going”. We’ll take you back in [...]

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Baja Health Tourism

By Will Humble|2010-02-22T11:07:15-07:00February 22nd, 2010|General|

The Mexican Federal Government announced a new policy this week to promote medical tourism in Mexico. Medical tourism is when you go abroad for medical care. Their goal is to encourage U.S. residents (with an initial focus on the uninsured) to travel to Mexico for their medical needs, generating jobs and investment. Another objective is [...]

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Pressing Ahead

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:24-07:00February 19th, 2010|General, Uncategorized|

This is what I shared with ADHS staff earlier this week - "Thanks again for all of your hard and creative work over the last year. We’ve made a great deal of progress despite the complicated financial problems that the State has faced. I’m not just saying that- I know it’s true and so do [...]

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ADHS Electronic Updates

By Will Humble|2010-02-18T08:29:02-07:00February 18th, 2010|General|

Please take a couple of minutes to sign up for our new ADHS electronic updates feature. When you sign up to receive electronic updates from the Department, you can click on the kinds of things that you want to receive, like our new “healthy and in-season recipe of the week”, media releases, immunizations newsletters and [...]

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Special Session & Sales Tax Referral

By Will Humble|2010-02-05T08:44:27-07:00February 5th, 2010|General|

The Governor called a special session of the Legislature this week (special session) to address various budget issues including education rollover payment issues, additional sale and leaseback issues, a sales tax referral, and a proration of income tax for out-of-state filers. All of these matters have a link to our budget and the future of [...]

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