Opening the Doors to People with Special Needs: Solutions to Prepare Your Practice
Our Office of Children with Special Healthcare Needs has been working with UnitedHealthcare Community Plans and AHCCCS to support an important free conference on Friday, July 25, to improve the care delivery system in Arizona for children and youth with special health care needs and disabilities and their families. The goal of the free conference is to provide tools to primary care [...]
AZ Losing Traction on Vaccine Front
Arizona law requires kids to get certain vaccines in order to attend school unless a doctor signs a medical exemption form or a parent signs a religious or personal belief exemption form. There’s been an increasing number of parents who are signing personal belief exemption forms- putting herd immunity at risk. Every year we examine our exemption rates...which gives us information [...]
Long-Term Care Infection Prevention and Control Collaborative
Our Licensing, Preparedness and Healthcare-Associated Infections shops joined forces with APIC Consulting Inc. to provide a free day-long event to provide training to skilled nursing facilities about how to prevent healthcare-associated infections. The training will be based on the Infection Preventionist's Guide to Long-Term Care. The goals are to help healthcare providers to: 1) identify infection prevention challenges in the long-term care [...]
Car Seat Delivery
This week we took a huge step forward in our efforts to keep kids safe on both sides of the border. Rural Metro was helping us transport child car seats to Mexico as part of our commitment to A Safe Ride Home. Last year during the Arizona Mexico Commission’s summer plenary session, we signed an agreement with Sonora to work [...]
New Website for Arnold v. Sarn Case
A few months ago the Governor announced a final agreement had been reached in the 32 year old Arnold vs. Sarn case regarding care and services for individuals with serious mental illness. The Settlement is the foundation to end the lawsuit while establishing a blueprint for a successful community-based behavioral health system in Arizona. The Agreement includes an increase of services [...]
Behavioral Health Services for 14 Counties Go Out to Bid
Now that we have a new integrated behavioral health care model in Maricopa County, we’ve set our sights on implementing a similar integrated care model in the rest of the state. Our Procurement Team issued the Greater Arizona Behavioral Health RFP last week - which sets the course for integrating behavioral health and physical health for folks with a serious mental [...]