General – Page 63 – AZ Dept. of Health Services News

OK Then, What’s Health-e-Arizona?

By Will Humble|2012-08-16T08:29:16-07:00August 16th, 2012|General|

Health-e-Arizona is an on-line benefits application for Arizona residents. Folks can apply for AHCCCS Health Insurance coverage, KidsCare, KidsCare II, Nutrition Assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly called food stamps) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cash assistance using the on-line Health-e-Arizona system. We encourage anybody that’s interested in finding out whether they’re eligible for any of [...]

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What’s Health-e Connection?

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:04-07:00August 15th, 2012|General|

Arizona Health-e Connection - better known as AzHeC- is a state-wide public/private collaborative for advancing the adoption of health information technology and health information exchange. We have a seat on the board which advances the secure and private sharing of electronic health information. Here's their 2011 Annual Report. The Arizona Health-e Connection team has been working closely with Janet Mullen and Paula [...]

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A Boost for Safety

By Will Humble|2012-08-13T08:56:56-07:00August 13th, 2012|General, Prevention|

Booster seats dramatically lower the risk of suffering internal damage, serious spinal injury or worse for kids between 5 and 8 years old. In fact, 100% of kids ages 5-8, who were killed in Arizona car crashes in 2010 weren’t restrained in a booster seat. For years, the AZ's Child Fatality Review Team recommended a booster seat [...]

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Program Spotlight: Quality Management Operations

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:04-07:00August 10th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Our Quality Management Operations shop inside behavioral health has an incredibly complicated and important mission. They have responsibility for regulating and managing Information Management; Performance Improvement; Medical Management; and Quality of Care Monitoring and Oversight in AZ's public behavioral health system. These 4 critical areas work together to develop and implement a system of continuous quality improvement by establishing [...]

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Home Baked Cottage Industry Employment Grant

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:04-07:00August 8th, 2012|General|

The AZ Developmental Disability Planning Council is proud to announce an exciting new grant opportunity for organizations that want to help folks with developmental disabilities and their families develop their own cottage industry food business. The initiative is tied to one of our primary goals on the Council: to help folks with developmental disabilities to [...]

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Dispensary Selection Results

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:04-07:00August 7th, 2012|General|

For about four hours this morning, balls were hopping in the bingo machine as we randomly chose one dispensary for each of the 68 competitive districts. All the drawings are online for you to watch - there were 404 applications considered in the 68 drawings. There were also 29 CHAAs where there was only one [...]

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One Day at a Time

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:04-07:00August 6th, 2012|General|

The AZ Attorney General issued an Opinion and a media release this afternoon about the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act. The Opinion states, in part, that the voter approved Act is pre-empted by Federal Law – specifically the part that allows the cultivation, selling or distribution of marijuana. It references 2 recent court cases that states [...]

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The Road to Lifelong Health Begins with Breastfeeding

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:05-07:00August 6th, 2012|General|

The first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week and it has been for 20 years. This year’s theme is The Road to Lifelong Health Begins with Breastfeeding. Those long-term benefits apply to both mothers and babies. When babies are fed human milk, they are more likely to avoid obesity, less likely to die from [...]

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New RFP Dates & Brief Update

By Will Humble|2012-08-04T07:59:39-07:00August 4th, 2012|General|

Our behavioral health RFP Core Team (Bob Sorce, Victoria Navarra, Teresita Oaks, and Chris Leavitt) and our entire cast of characters have been doing a full court press for the last 7 months to put together the Scope of Work that we’ll use when we go out for bid for the massive behavioral health services [...]

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Registration Certificate Selection Tuesday

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:05-07:00August 3rd, 2012|General, Licensing|

Next Tuesday (August 7) is "Selection Tuesday" for our medical marijuana dispensary applicants. By the end of the day, we’ll have whittled the initial pool of 486 medical marijuana dispensary applications down to 99. We won’t be allocating the full allotment of 126 Registration Certificates on Tuesday because 27 of our Community Health Analysis Areas [...]

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