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New ASTHO Presidential Challenge: Healthy Aging

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:29-07:00September 17th, 2014|General|

I was at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials Annual Meeting and Policy Summit most of last week. This year’s meeting was entitled Achieving Population Health in Evolving Systems. We shared best practices with each other about different ways states are approaching population health. We heard from the Acting Surgeon General Rear Admiral Boris D. [...]

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Community Integrated Paramedicine Taking Shape in AZ

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 16th, 2014|General|

Community Integrated Paramedicine programs are beginning to come together in two primary business models in Arizona. The first one has EMS (emergency medical services) agencies partnering with hospitals to reduce the frequency that patients are re-admitted to hospitals. In the second, EMS agencies are cultivating social service referrals to reduce the frequency that folks use emergency departments [...]

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Enterovirus D68

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 15th, 2014|General|

Arizona joined the states asking CDC for laboratory testing for Enterovirus D68 on Friday. We’ve had an increase in the number of children hospitalized and treated for upper respiratory illness. Enterovirus is in the family with the common cold and illness is usually limited to cold symptoms (stuffy or runny nose and cough). There seem [...]

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2013 AZ Abortion Annual Report

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 12th, 2014|General|

We publish several reports every year that are required by Arizona law…including our annual abortion surveillance report. We published our 4th Abortion Surveillance Report this week. Overall, the abortion rate in Arizona was stable from 2012 to 2013, however, the rate of abortions among 18-19 year old women decreased more than 30% between 2012 and 2013…the [...]

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The Legal Mechanics of State Government & PTSD

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 11th, 2014|General|

State government authority and policy is driven by laws that are established by the Legislature and carried out by the Governor through the Executive Branch. Sometimes laws are passed directly by the voters (called a voter initiative). Many state laws require state agencies to develop regulations to “flesh out” the laws they pass by giving [...]

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Awesome ASH Teamwork

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 10th, 2014|General|

Thanks for all your hard work in changing our culture of care at the Hospital. It’s been 2 years since we implemented new processes to change how we work with patients. We’ve revised roles and responsibilities for unit staff and campus support, trained all our staff in Non-Violent Crisis Intervention, which is an evidence-based, best [...]

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Celebrating National Payroll Week

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 10th, 2014|General|

As one of the largest departments in Arizona State Government, ADHS is joining in the salute to payroll professionals by participating in National Payroll Week. National Payroll Week recognizes professionals who support the American system by not only processing your wages, but also reporting your earnings and withholding employment taxes, which keep America running. Our payroll department [...]

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Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 9th, 2014|General|

Arizona is focused on making affordable fruits and vegetables easy-to-find in communities throughout the state. In Arizona, more than 40% of Farmers’ Markets accept Arizona Farmer's Market Nutrition Program coupons so WIC moms and seniors on the Commodity Supplemental Food Program can purchase fruits and vegetables at Farmers’ Markets, compared to just 21% of the [...]

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Arizona Community Profiles Dashboard (Part I of IV)

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 5th, 2014|General|

We collect all kinds of surveillance about prevalence of disease, birth, causes of death, reasons for hospital visits, smoking rates and hundreds of other indicators to help us assess health indicators and design interventions to improve outcomes. For the first time ever, we now have a tool to explore this data and visualize it in [...]

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e-Book Edition of the “Guide to Clinical Preventive Services”

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:30-07:00September 4th, 2014|General|

For the first time, the US Preventive Services Task Force has released an e-book version of its Guide to Clinical Preventive Services which helps primary care clinicians and patients decide together what preventive services are right for a patient’s needs. The 2014 Guide includes all active Task Force evidence-based recommendations including 28 new and updated [...]

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