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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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Ink Dry on Final Revised Medical Marijuana Rules

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:16-07:00February 27th, 2012|General, Licensing|

As you know from earlier blog posts a judge ruled in a state case that had challenged our dispensary applicant selection criteria. The judge’s decision basically struck down several of the selection criteria we had been planning to use to for competitive areas of the state (areas where there will be more than 1 applicant [...]

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Recovery Through Whole Health RFI

By azdhs-admin|2012-03-20T07:36:42-07:00February 9th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

We’ll be having a “Request For Information” session regarding our “ Recovery Through Whole Health, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority with Health Homes” project (a.k.a. the upcoming Request for Proposal for behavioral health services in Maricopa County) on March 21 from 1- 5 pm at the Radisson City Center at 3600 N. 2nd Ave. in Phoenix. We’ll [...]

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Medical Marijuana Dispensary Update

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:20-07:00January 19th, 2012|Licensing, Preparedness|

With the recent ruling in Maricopa Superior Court, ADHS is analyzing the best way to responsibly begin accepting applications for medical marijuana dispensaries. Last week, the Governor instructed ADHS to proceed with the dispensary portion of the AMMA. One of the stumbling blocks was the pending Compassion First vs. Arizona case, which challenged some [...]

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New Debilitating Medical Condition Applications

By azdhs-admin|2012-01-17T06:38:37-07:00January 17th, 2012|Licensing, Preparedness|

The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (36-2801.01) directs us to accept and review applications to add new debilitating medical conditions that qualify folks to hold patient registration cards. We outlined the requirements and review procedures in the Rules we adopted (R9-17-106)- which say that we’ll accept applications every January and July. We’re planning to accept applications during the last [...]

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Dogs and Residents

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:21-07:00January 10th, 2012|Licensing|

The father of a person living in one of our licensed behavioral health residential facilities phoned in an after-hours complaint to our behavioral health licensing team on the Friday before Christmas Eve. Little did our team leader Bill McCarroll know when he answered the phone that he would hear graphic details of a brutal pit-bull attack- and he [...]

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Web-Based EMT Certification Coming Soon

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:23-07:00December 21st, 2011|General, Licensing|

As our IT team was developing the electronic medical marijuana application tool they started seeing that the code they were writing had potential uses in other parts of the agency. In other words- that the basics of the Code could be used to electronify some of our other business lines. We looked for areas that consumed [...]

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Home Birth Protest

By azdhs-admin|2011-12-06T08:14:45-07:00December 6th, 2011|General, Licensing|

Those of you that were working at our downtown campus last Wednesday afternoon may have seen the 100 or so folks carrying placards in front of our 150 Building. They were asking us to make it easier to have a home-birth in AZ. How can we do that, you ask? Many of you probably didn’t [...]

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AZ Carecheck

By azdhs-admin|2011-11-14T08:27:34-07:00November 14th, 2011|General, Licensing|

It’s been a while since I mentioned to you that our Division of Licensing has a really good web site called AZ Care Check. Our website provides a 3 year history of survey results, complaint investigation results and if any of our licensed facilities (nursing homes, assisted living, hospital and other medical facilities, childcare or [...]

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Turning a Bad Survey into a Learning Opportunity

By azdhs-admin|2017-02-10T09:51:31-07:00October 20th, 2011|Licensing|

Those of you in Licensing have heard me talk about the difference between compliance and enforcement more than once, but it's been awhile since I've written about the subject. Some people are confused about the distinction I always make between compliance and enforcement. They are 2 very different things. Compliance (as it relates to our licensees) [...]

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