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Medical Marijuana

By Will Humble|2010-04-22T13:40:19-07:00April 22nd, 2010|General|

A group called the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project turned in signatures in support of a proposed “medical marijuana” voter initiative for the November 2 ballot. Election officials will be busy over the next couple of months to determine whether enough of the submitted signatures are valid. If enough of the signatures are valid, if [...]

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Proposition 100 Voter Registration Deadline

By Will Humble|2010-04-16T08:47:09-07:00April 16th, 2010|Behavioral Health, General|

Monday, April 19 is the registration deadline to vote on Proposition 100- which is the Special Election for the 3 year, 1% sales tax that would benefit education, public safety and health services (including behavioral health). The election will be held on May 18, but many people will be voting using early mail-in ballots. If [...]

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Health Matters Web Resource

By Will Humble|2010-04-14T11:11:02-07:00April 14th, 2010|General, Preparedness, Prevention|

We rolled out our new public health information system … called Arizona Health Matters http://www.arizonahealthmatters.org/. It’s an electronic one stop source of unbiased data and information about community health and healthy communities in general. It’s intended to help planners, policy makers, and community members learn about issues and identify improvements. On the site, you can [...]

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National H1N1 Vaccination Rates

By Will Humble|2010-04-07T08:52:37-07:00April 7th, 2010|General, Preparedness|

The latest CDC Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report has the latest on the state-by-state H1N1 vaccination rates for kids as well as national percentages for healthcare workers. Arizona had the highest vaccination rates for kids in the western U.S. The national vaccination rates for healthcare workers were a little disappointing (about 40%)- but keep in [...]

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Breakfast & Lunch

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:20-07:00April 5th, 2010|General, Licensing, Prevention|

The US Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, passed legislation out of their Committee to reauthorize WIC and the other Child Nutrition Programs last week. It’s called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The bill http://ag.senate.gov/site/legislation.html includes the reauthorization of the free and reduced lunch and breakfast programs. I was in DC a couple [...]

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Breakfast & Lunch

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:21-07:00April 5th, 2010|General, Licensing, Prevention|

The US Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, passed legislation out of their Committee to reauthorize WIC and the other Child Nutrition Programs last week. It’s called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The bill http://ag.senate.gov/site/legislation.html includes the reauthorization of the free and reduced lunch and breakfast programs. I was in DC a couple [...]

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Fighting Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:21-07:00March 31st, 2010|General, Prevention|

Some of the best infection control experts are laying out the plan on how to fight Healthcare-Associated Infections in the next decade. The International Conference on HAIs just wrapped up in Atlanta – it marked the first time that four leading scientific organizations committed to infection prevention are working together to further a scientific and [...]

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ADHS Budget Summary

By Will Humble|2012-10-23T08:37:28-07:00March 29th, 2010|General|

I don’t have to tell you that we’ve faced unprecedented challenges over the last couple of years. State revenues have declined for nearly 3 years now, and we’ve dramatically reduced our spending and staffing levels in an effort to bring spending in line with state revenues. Excluding the money that goes toward the matching funds [...]

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Sunset Hearing

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:22-07:00March 25th, 2010|General|

We had our agency Sunset Hearing last Wednesday in the Senate. Every 10 years our agency comes up for a redetermination to see if the mission of the department is still necessary etc. If so, then ADHS is “reauthorized”- hopefully for another 10 years. The bill (HB 2029) passed out of the House several weeks [...]

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Furlough & Pay News

By Will Humble|2010-03-24T08:43:08-07:00March 24th, 2010|General|

Performance Pay Reduction The state budget that was recently signed included an indefinite (probably permanent) suspension of performance pay (2.75%) beginning May 29. The effective date of the bill (HB2003) is June 15- so that's the day that the reduction will be actually implemented. But since this is in the middle of a pay period, we won't begin to actually [...]

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