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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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The Olympic Diet

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:05-07:00August 2nd, 2012|General|

Ok.. here's a quiz. One of the lists below represents the most commonly ordered foods at the Olympic Village by the athletes in London. The other list is the list of most commonly purchased foods in the US by normal consumers (by dollar value). Can you match the list to the right cohort? List [...]

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Cottage Industry Foods Anniversary

By Will Humble|2012-08-01T08:57:41-07:00August 1st, 2012|General|

We’re celebrating the 1st birthday of the our Home Baked and Confectionary Goods program this week. So far, we’ve signed up more than 1,400 participants. Over the past year, we’ve finalized our rules for the program and produced an educational video. The participants are making a variety of home baked goods ranging from gluten-free baked [...]

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Abortion Law

By Will Humble|2012-07-30T08:25:59-07:00July 30th, 2012|General|

Last year HB 2036, which relates to abortions in AZ, was passed and signed. There are a host of changes that the new law makes- and many of the provisions kick in at different times. The first things that we’re responsible for (beginning August 2nd) include providing an informed consent form for unemancipated minors that are seeking [...]

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