Licensing – Page 11 – AZ Dept. of Health Services News

Licensing’s “ADVICE Collaborative”

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:35-07:00March 28th, 2013|Licensing|

Our Licensing team routinely analyzes the most frequent and important deficiencies that we observe and posts the data on our website. We use the data to help educate the folks that we license… and to identify good topics for provider training and technical assistance (public health interventions). For example, our medical facilities licensing team has found that infection control [...]

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April Midwifery Scope of Practice Meeting

By Will Humble|2013-03-22T16:07:16-07:00March 22nd, 2013|Licensing|

The next meeting of the Midwifery Scope of Practice Advisory Committee will be from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday April 3, 2013 at the State Laboratory Conference Room located at 250 N. 17th Avenue in Phoenix. Here’s the agenda for the meeting. Our Rules team is still working on the set of draft [...]

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Hitting Our Mark at Showtime

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:38-07:00February 28th, 2013|Licensing|

Last Saturday our Licensing team hit the mark at Showtime- when it matters most. After hearing that the Fountain Retirement Hotel had put residents on notice it was closing, we immediately became concerned that staff would stop showing up, food and medication would not be given out, and the residents would be turned out into the [...]

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Helping Kids Recover

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:39-07:00February 26th, 2013|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

Our Vision at the Arizona Department of Health Services is, ”Health and Wellness for all Arizonans.” Part of our mission includes helping individuals with substance abuse issues achieve and maintain self-reliance and independence. To get there, some individuals simply need occasional outpatient services. Some need wrap-around, community or home-based services. Others require more intensive treatment [...]

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Chalk Up Another Empower Award

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:40-07:00February 21st, 2013|Licensing, Prevention|

This week the Association of Maternal & Child Health Programs gave us the National Best Practice Award for our Empower Program. As a refresher for those of you that aren’t familiar with Empower… it’s a program we started in 2009 that focuses on increasing healthy eating and active living in our licensed child care facilities… [...]

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Troubled Teens: At Risk and Not Overlooked

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:40-07:00February 19th, 2013|Behavioral Health, General, Licensing|

Our Vision at the Arizona Department of Health Services is ”Health and Wellness for all Arizonans”. Part of that Vision for folks living with behavioral health issues or a mental illness means achieving and maintaining self-reliance and independence. To get there, some individuals simply need outpatient services occasionally. Some need wrap-around community or home-based services. [...]

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Next Midwifery Meeting

By azdhs-admin|2013-02-07T16:37:26-07:00February 7th, 2013|Licensing|

Our next Midwifery Scope of Practice Advisory Committee meeting will be Monday (February 11th) from 5-8 pm in the Lab conference room. The expanded Agenda will have more time for presentations and comments. We’ll have presentations from some of the advisory committee members, a discussion of the latest iteration of the working draft regulations and more [...]

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Program Spotlight: Lab Licensure

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:45-07:00January 24th, 2013|Licensing|

Those of you that actually read these posts know that we run Arizona’s benchmark public health laboratory. But many of you might not know that we also license and inspect clinical and environmental labs in AZ and even some in other parts of the country through our Clinical and Environmental Laboratory Licensing and Compliance programs. [...]

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Regulatory Reform Update

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:46-07:00January 22nd, 2013|Licensing|

We’re continuing to make significant progress in our licensing regulatory reform efforts. Our overall goal is to simplify and streamline our regulations so they align with our strategic plan and map to improve public health outcomes. The new regulations will more acutely focus on health and safety criteria- and will put more emphasis on outcomes. [...]

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Midwife Scope of Practice Draft Proposal

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:46-07:00January 11th, 2013|Licensing|

Our next Midwifery Scope of Practice Advisory Committee meeting will be Monday (January 14th) from 6-8 pm in the Lab conference room. The Agenda is packed with 2 full hours of information and discussion. We’ll be reviewing data from other states, and what scopes of practice they allow, as well as reviewing our own data collected from [...]

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