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Sonoran Public Health Department & ADHS Snag the Paul Fannin Award

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00June 11th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General, Licensing, Preparedness, Prevention|

The Secretario de Salud Publica & the ADHS jointly received the Arizona Mexico Commission’s Paul Fannin award for our public health collaborations last Friday night. This is a top award for the Commission- with the award going to “… an organization that has demonstrated acts of goodwill and support toward the development of the Arizona-Sonora relationship.” It’s named after the [...]

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Interim AD for Licensing

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:11-07:00May 10th, 2012|General, Licensing|

Colby Bower will serve as our Interim Assistant Director for Licensing while we recruit and hire a permanent Assistant Director. Colby has been serving as our Legislative Affairs chief for the last couple of years. Colby fills several of the criteria that we needed for the interim post: 1) He’s a good risk manager and [...]

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ADHS Looking for a Forward-thinking Assistant Director

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00May 8th, 2012|Licensing|

“Promoting Health and Wellness for all Arizonans" is the motto of the Arizona Department of Health Services. We promote and protect the health of Arizona's children and adults and set the standard for personal and community health through direct care, science, public policy and leadership. Want a piece of the action? We’re looking for an [...]

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Remembering Alan

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00April 26th, 2012|Licensing, Uncategorized|

Alan Oppenheim was an excellent leader and manager- but much more importantly- he was a really good person. He always cared about others and asked lots of questions about what was going on. He was a team player- he had everybody’s and the team’s best interests in mind… and was wholeheartedly committed to our mission [...]

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Empower Program Gets National Recognition

By Will Humble|2012-04-06T08:19:48-07:00April 6th, 2012|Licensing, Prevention|

Our Physical Activity and Nutrition and Child Care Licensing programs were selected for a national award from Let’s Move!- Child Care for our outstanding work to promote young children’s health and prevent childhood obesity through the Empower program and our training videos. Our work will be showcased at the May 9 Let’s Move! Child Care [...]

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Behavioral Health Licensing Regulatory Reform

By Will Humble|2012-03-30T15:43:16-07:00March 30th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

The behavioral health system transformation that we’re working on as part of the Maricopa County behavioral health services contract will go a long way toward better integrating primary and acute care and behavioral healthcare for folks with a serious mental illness. But… our success is also dependent on our regulatory reform within our Licensing shop. In fact, [...]

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Midwifery & the Democratic Process

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00March 28th, 2012|Licensing|

Here's a short story about using the democratic process to get things done. Some of you might remember a protest last December in front of our 150 Building. About 100 folks or so were carrying placards in front of our building asking us to make it easier to have a home-birth in AZ. Many of you probably [...]

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Our Arizona State Hospital’s “Culture of Care”

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00March 26th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

We’ve had plans to change how we think about security at the Hospital for the last several months. Our careful planning and organizing is paying off- as we’ve implemented many of our plans already and are turning the key on other reforms in the coming weeks and months. It’s definitely been a busy place at [...]

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Licensing Does Whatever it Takes

By Will Humble|2012-03-20T08:35:01-07:00March 20th, 2012|Licensing|

The opening of a new hospital last week in Florence was anything but usual for folks in our Licensing Division. Since the hospital will also take care of prisoners, the staff had to work closely on the floor plan to make sure it met both medical and security needs. The hospital had to be able [...]

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AZ Kicks off the “No Place Like Home” Campaign

By Will Humble|2012-03-16T09:06:02-07:00March 16th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

Kathy McCanna, Alan Oppenheim, and Connie Belden (from Licensing) and Kristy Benton (from Behavioral Health) recently jumped head-first into a new Arizona health-care initiative called No Place Like Home which is Arizona’s approach to the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs project. The project aims to prevent hospital-acquired conditions and hospital re-admissions. The name [...]

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