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New Foods for WIC Families in Arizona

By Cory Nelson|2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00May 11th, 2015|General|

Getting kids to eat healthy is hard, especially for busy moms. The Arizona WIC program now offers new foods to help families provide nutritious meals. Yogurt, whole wheat pasta, and new brands of cereal and baby foods for older babies are now available through the WIC program. The full list of foods includes many fresh, frozen and canned vegetables, [...]

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Empowering Habits, Empowering Lives: Superheroes Empowering Arizona!

By Cory Nelson|2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00May 5th, 2015|General|

This past weekend, we held the fourth annual “Empowering Habits and Empowering Lives” Empower Conference. More than 250 Early Care and Education professionals from all over Arizona participated in the all-day meeting. Conference participants explored the Empower Program's 10 Standards to Empower Children to Live Healthy Lives and learned how to be more effective through developing cultural [...]

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Title V Priority Setting Meeting

By Cory Nelson|2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00April 20th, 2015|General, Prevention|

Our Women’s and Children’s Health team administers the federal maternal Child Health Block Grant. This grant is authorized through Title V of the Social Security Act and has been in place since 1935. Every 5 years we look at the health and well-being of Arizona’s women and children and develop our top priorities based on [...]

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More EMS Web-based Improvements to Launch This Month

By Cory Nelson|2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00April 6th, 2015|General|

A year ago, our Bureau of EMS and Trauma System launched its Web-based EMCT registration program. The Bureau along with our IT staff have been hard at work on the next phase of their automation project, the EMS Training Program portal. The portal will go live this month allowing the EMS Training Program folks to submit all of the required registration, [...]

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National Public Health Week 2015 website launched

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:15-07:00March 4th, 2015|General|

The website for National Public Health Week, which will run April 6-12 this year, is now open for business. Visit www.nphw.org to stay abreast of information and events and access the NPHW toolkit. The toolkit contains fact sheets, media outreach materials, suggested community events, legislative information and other helpful resources and activities. This year's NPHW [...]

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Tuberculosis: Stubborn but Eradicable

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:16-07:00March 3rd, 2015|General|

In the past, tuberculosis was all over popular culture. It was portrayed in opera (Puccini’s La bóheme, Verdi’s La Traviata), in novels (Tolstoy’s Anna Karénina, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment), and in poetry (works by both Keats and Shelley). Nowadays, it seems like the only time TB is in the news is when it’s about ancient [...]

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Big Behavioral Health Procurement in the Books

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:16-07:00March 2nd, 2015|General|

In mid-December (2014) we awarded contracts for the Northern and Southern regions of the state to Health Choice Integrated Care and Cenpatico Integrated Care. On January 2nd United Healthcare filed a Protest with the ADHS for the award in Southern AZ, requesting an Emergency Stay and Administrative Hearing. On January 21 we denied the Protest. United [...]

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Az Health Improvement Plan Paying Dividends

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:16-07:00February 27th, 2015|General|

Az Health Improvement Plan Paying Dividends We made progress this week on one of our key Arizona Health Improvement Plan (AzHIP) objectives: To improve access to well care in underserved areas of Arizona. This week the Governor signed Senate Bill 1194 which enhances our State Loan Repayment Program by expanding the types of providers who can receive loan repayment assistance, increasing [...]

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EMTALA & Ebola

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:16-07:00February 24th, 2015|General, Preparedness|

The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that requires hospitals that accept Medicare payments to provide emergency healthcare to anybody regardless of citizenship or immigration status or their ability to pay. Under the law, hospitals that accept Medicare payments can’t transfer or discharge patients that need emergency treatment unless [...]

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ADHS Community Profiles Dashboard Gets International Recognition

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:16-07:00February 23rd, 2015|General|

Our Community Profiles Dashboard is featured this month in the ESRI News, for State & Local Government newsletter as an example of the benefits from making health date more accessible. I’ve blogged about our Dashboard, which is a leap forward for public health professionals, city planners, non-profit organizations, medical providers and anyone who needs public [...]

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