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Cinco Pasos

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:37-07:00July 22nd, 2011|General, Prevention|

The next time you’re in Mexico- keep your eye out for their “Cinco Pasos” wellness program. The federal secretary of health and each of the state health departments in Mexico are actively participating in the new wellness campaign. It’s an easy-to-understand 5-step program that encourages their citizens to take simple steps to improve their health [...]

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U of A & Maricopa Integrated Health System’s New Partnership

By azdhs-admin|2011-07-21T09:57:14-07:00July 21st, 2011|General|

June was a milestone for the future of medicine in Arizona. Maricopa Integrated Health Services (MIHS), the District Medical Group (DMG) and the University of Arizona School of Medicine Phoenix Campus joined forces to enhance medical education in AZ. MIHS will be the primary training and teaching hospital for the students at UA Phoenix medical campus. [...]

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New Infection Control Guidelines for Outpatient Medical Facilities

By azdhs-admin|2011-07-21T09:53:26-07:00July 21st, 2011|General, Prevention|

CDC has developed new and easy-to-use resources for preventing infections in outpatient treatment facilities. The Infection Prevention Guide and Prevention Checklist is posted on the new CDC website for outpatient care facilities.

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Break Out Your Favorite Healthy Recipe, Arizona!

By azdhs-admin|2011-07-20T10:39:18-07:00July 20th, 2011|General|

We’re excited to roll out the new cottage industry food law . You can see the new statute at A.R.S. 36-136(H)(4)(g). It’ll provide self-employment opportunities to folks that might not otherwise be able to find work and for supplemental income for others that have a great recipe. The new law allows folks to bake food (not considered “potentially [...]

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How Come High School Looks so Hard Today?

By azdhs-admin|2011-07-19T09:58:47-07:00July 19th, 2011|General|

If you're like me, and your high school teen asks for help with math, you probably said to yourself or them “what the heck is that? I can’t help you- you’ll have to read the chapter”. The math work might seem harder today partly because today’s teens weren’t lead poisoned like my generation was (people in their late 40’s and [...]

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Step Up to the Plate

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:38-07:00July 15th, 2011|General|

It’s time to step up to the plate if you’re interested in providing clear and concise information about how best to integrate primary and acute healthcare with behavioral health care for folks with serious mental illnesses in Arizona. One of our top priorities in behavioral health over the coming years will be to better integrate [...]

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Incident Command Training

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:39-07:00July 15th, 2011|General|

With all the fire response activity this week- I thought I’d do a piece on the framework that we’re all using for our response activities. We use the National Incident Management System (NIMS) to guide and organize all of our responses because it provides a systematic, proactive structure with which to organize response activities. Many [...]

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“Raise Your Voice!” Report

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:40-07:00July 15th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

Our behavioral health coalition completed and published our brand-new Raise Your Voice! Report... a product of our behavioral health focus groups with peers and family members in late 2010. We’re most proud of the fact that the entire process—from beginning to end—had the full participation or peers and family members (from the Arizona Peer and Family Coalition) in planning, organizing, leading [...]

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ADHS Asks AZ Attorney General’s Office to Review the Legality of “Cannabis Clubs”

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:40-07:00July 14th, 2011|General|

The Arizona Department of Health Services has serious concerns about the legality of so-called cannabis clubs. The information that we have regarding these "clubs" suggests that they are distributing marijuana to customers in a way that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, and the persons involved could be conducting illegal marijuana transactions. For this [...]

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What about this new Fad Diet?

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:40-07:00July 14th, 2011|General|

Recently, the department has received numerous inquiries about fad diets: Do they work? Are they safe? Will they help me lose weight? Our nutrition department put together a couple of tips to watch out for when it comes to dieting. 1) Promotes a drastic weight loss in a short period of time. Losing more than [...]

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