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Licensing & Rulemaking

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:46-07:00March 10th, 2014|Licensing|

Our Licensing & Rulemaking teams have spent the past two years working with numerous associations and stakeholders from various licensed facilities as part of our regulatory reform initiative. The last legislative session extended our “exempt” rulemaking authority through April of 2014. This gave us the unique opportunity to live with the new rules for a [...]

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National Audit: Room for Improvement at Skilled Nursing Facilities

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:46-07:00March 6th, 2014|Affordable Care Act, Licensing|

Data collection and analysis is public health’s most valuable renewable resource- which is why we’ve made data analysis such a high priority. Yesterday, the Office of the Inspector General for HHS published a document that highlights the fact that disciplined data analyses can identify key factors that result in poor outcomes- giving us the information [...]

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Midwife Practice Collaborative

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:47-07:00March 4th, 2014|Licensing, Newborn Screening|

Our Licensing team promotes and protects public health and safety by addressing quality of care issues. Last week we hosted a forum for our licensed midwives to learn more about our programs and resources to bring them up to speed on our newest initiatives related to maternal and child health so they'll have the latest tools [...]

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Driving Down Cesarean Delivery Rates

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:47-07:00March 1st, 2014|Licensing, Prevention|

There’s widespread agreement within the public health community that the percentage of women who deliver by Cesarean Section these days is too high. In fact, 1/3 of women in the US have cesarean deliveries these days (up from 9.5% in 1990 and 23% in 2008). Last week the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and [...]

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Dispensary Agent Collaborative

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:49-07:00February 27th, 2014|Licensing|

Last Wednesday we held a Medical Marijuana Dispensary Collaborative. It was modeled after last year’s successful ADVICE Collaborative, which brought dialysis facilities together to share best practices and engage in a dialog to reduce infection control violations and improve patient care. The goal of the meeting was to avoid future deficiencies by ensuring that dispensaries understand our expectations and to help us [...]

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New Abortion Clinic Regulations Established

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:54-07:00January 27th, 2014|Licensing|

HB 2036 was passed and signed during the 2012 legislative session… tasking the ADHS with several things related to the regulation of abortions. Among them were requirements for us to: 1) Develop a parental informed consent form for minors seeking an abortion; 2) Establish a website with information identified in the Statute; and 3) Require [...]

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Medical Marijuana News

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:54-07:00January 17th, 2014|General, Licensing|

We published our mid-year update of the medical marijuana annual report this week. It contains different data than our standard annual report in that we’re reporting aggregate dispensary transaction data. In the report you’ll see that there were about 422,000 transactions made at dispensaries in ‘13 among the 40,000 patients (about 10 transactions/patient/year). Dispensaries sold [...]

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Enhanced Empower Website Up & Running

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:58-07:00December 2nd, 2013|Licensing, Prevention|

Our Empower Program just launched its new and improved website. You’ll recall that Empower is our program that works with more than 2,400 licensed childcare facilities across the state of Arizona reaching more than 200,000 children. Each provider receives a discount on their licensing fees and in return commits to implementing 10 standards that empower kids to [...]

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Draft New Abortion Clinic Regulations

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:49:59-07:00November 22nd, 2013|Licensing|

A state law (HB 2036) was passed and signed awhile back that tasked us with several things related to the regulation of abortions in AZ. Among them were provisions directing us to develop a parental informed consent form for minors and establish a website with a host of information identified in the statute. Our next [...]

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Regulatory Reform Revolution Continues

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:00-07:00November 7th, 2013|Licensing|

One of the things I’m most proud of over the last 5 years has been the way we successfully overhauled our regulation licensed healthcare institutions in AZ. Very few government entities could have accomplished such an all-encompassing regulatory reform effort that creates a new outcome-based system that will improve public health- while maintaining support from the [...]

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