Tai Chi Prevents Injury
Before I started working here in ’92 I spent a year backpacking in southern Asia with my now wife (then my girlfriend). Wherever we went in China we’d see seniors in the parks or village squares doing Tai Chi in the morning. In a village it might be a group of a dozen folks, and in the cities you might [...]
EMTALA & Ebola
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) is a federal law that requires hospitals that accept Medicare payments to provide emergency healthcare to anybody regardless of citizenship or immigration status or their ability to pay. Under the law, hospitals that accept Medicare payments can’t transfer or discharge patients that need emergency treatment unless there’s informed consent on the [...]
ADHS Community Profiles Dashboard Gets International Recognition
Our Community Profiles Dashboard is featured this month in the ESRI News, for State & Local Government newsletter as an example of the benefits from making health date more accessible. I’ve blogged about our Dashboard, which is a leap forward for public health professionals, city planners, non-profit organizations, medical providers and anyone who needs public health data to improve their [...]
AzPHA Spring Conference
Registration is now open for the Arizona Public Health Association (AzPHA) 2015 Spring Conference. The conference titled: "It Starts Upstream: A Public Health Approach to Building a Healthy Future” will be held on Thursday, April 9, at the Phoenix Zoo. This year’s conference will feature panel discussions on the Social Determinants of Health and Nutrition through a Cultural Lens, a [...]
Southern AZ RBHA Procurement Protest
In mid-December (2014) we awarded contracts for the Northern and Southern regions of the state to Health Choice Integrated Care (Northern AZ) and Cenpatico Integrated Care (in Southern AZ). On January 2nd United Healthcare filed a Protest with the ADHS for the award in Southern AZ, requesting an Emergency Stay and Administrative Hearing. Last month (January 21) we denied the Protest. United HealthCare [...]
Coping with Stress
Stress can have a profound impact on health and affects your body, thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Symptoms like chronic headaches, insomnia, and lower productivity can be a direct result of stress. Being able to recognize common stress symptoms can give you a jump on managing them. Stress management is important, because, left unchecked, it can cause high blood pressure, heart [...]