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No Place Like Home

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:04-07:00October 18th, 2013|Licensing|

Over the last 18 months, our licensing team in collaboration with trade organizations from every sphere of healthcare delivery, partnered with Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), Arizona’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization, in its statewide initiative designed to reduce by 4000 the number of preventable hospital readmissions. Aptly named the No Place Like Home Campaign, because [...]

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Medical Marijuana Rulemaking Underway

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:05-07:00October 11th, 2013|Licensing|

A few weeks ago a Superior Court judge decided that a portion of our medical marijuana regulations are unreasonable because they lack a formal appeal process for dispensary registration certificate holders who don’t earn their approval to operate within 1 year. Because of the ruling, we approved renewal requests for all the current dispensaries (open [...]

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Licensing Collaborative Established as an Evidence-Based Best Practice

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:11-07:00August 26th, 2013|Licensing|

Our Licensing team routinely analyzes the most frequent and important deficiencies that we observe when we conduct inspections at our licensed facilities. We use the data to help educate the folks that we license… and to identify 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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Pre- School & Special Needs Kids

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:13-07:00August 13th, 2013|Licensing|

A couple of months ago I heard a story from a parent of a special needs kid who told me that she was trying to find a pre-school- but her kid was denied admission. She said that the facility told her that our licensing regulations wouldn’t allow the school to admit her child because he [...]

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Dispensary Finish Line?

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:17-07:00July 26th, 2013|Licensing|

We've issued 61 medical marijuana dispensary operating licenses so far with only 2 weeks left on the 52 week time-clock. We have 21 more inspections scheduled between now and August 6, which is the deadline for Registration Certificate holders to get their Approval to Operate License so they can renew their Certificate (a 1-year timeframe). The [...]

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Medical Marijuana Dispensary Crunch Time

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:20-07:00July 9th, 2013|General, Licensing|

June 7th marked the deadline for allocated dispensaries to file their request for an Approval to Operate from the Medical Marijuana Program. The lawsuit filed last month allowed for 15 of the 98 allocated dispensaries to submit their Approval to Operate applications after the June 7th deadline, however, all but one submitted their applications by [...]

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Response to Yarnell Hill Fire and Firefighter Deaths

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:20-07:00July 1st, 2013|Behavioral Health, General, Licensing, Preparedness|

We are mourning the tragic deaths of 19 firefighters at the Yarnell Hill Fire. We're working through the Northern Arizona Regional Behavioral Health Authority to help the firefighters and community there to deal with the loss of life and the speedy evacuation in front of the fire. The loss of most of the Granite Mountain Hot Shot team [...]

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Regulatory Reform Finish Line

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:20-07:00June 28th, 2013|Licensing|

We owe a big round of applause to our Licensing & Rulemaking teams- who’ve spent the better part of 2 years working with hundreds of folks from numerous associations and licensed facilities as part of our regulatory reform initiative. This afternoon we filed an overhaul of 20 Articles of regulations for healthcare institutions and behavioral health service agencies including [...]

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Regulatory Reform in the Home-Stretch

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:21-07:00June 21st, 2013|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

Our Licensing & Rulemaking teams have spent the better part of 18 months working with hundreds of folks from numerous associations and licensed facilities as part of our regulatory reform initiative. We’ve been overhauling 18 Articles of regulations for Healthcare Institutions and Behavioral Health Service Agencies including hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient surgery and treatment centers, recovery [...]

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Doce Pit Fire

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:22-07:00June 19th, 2013|Behavioral Health, Licensing, Preparedness|

The dry conditions in the Prescott National Forest have provided great fuel for the wildfire that started there yesterday. You can monitor conditions on the Forest website. And don't forget to check in with the state's Emergency Information Network. We play a significant role in response where there are wildfires in Arizona – our licensing [...]

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