New WIC Website
We’re happy to unveil the new Arizona WIC Program website, which has been redesigned with a fresh new look that is more user friendly. Last year the WIC webpage had more than 76,000 unique visitors with nearly 350,000 page views- making it one of our most popular sites. The redesigned site includes a Find a Clinic feature, a newly released [...]
Be Part of the Mental Health Solution
Students can’t be academically successful when they’re battling anxiety, depression, substance abuse and other common conditions. Nearly 50% of lifetime mental disorders begin by the mid-teens. That’s why we’ve launched a partnership with Kognito Interactive to educate middle and high-school teachers how to recognize signs of depression and other mental health disorders that have the potential to lead to low academic [...]
Licensing’s “ADVICE Collaborative”
Our Licensing team routinely analyzes the most frequent and important deficiencies that we observe and posts the data on our website. We use the data to help educate the folks that we license… and to identify good topics for provider training and technical assistance (public health interventions). For example, our medical facilities licensing team has found that infection control is becoming increasingly troublesome among [...]
Safe Prescribing Medical Education
The number of prescriptions filled for opioid pain relievers has increased dramatically along with deaths from overdoses from painkillers (more than 1000 in AZ last year), leading the CDC to identify prescription drug abuse a problem of "epidemic" proportions. To better equip physicians against this crisis, the National Institute on Drug Abuse offers two free online continuing medical education courses: [...]
Autism & Folic Acid
A new study published in February by the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that taking folic acid may help reduce the number of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The study followed more than 85,000 children nationwide born between 2002 and 2008 and followed up with them in 2012. According to the study, the number of children born [...]
Maricopa County Behavioral Health Services Contract Awarded Today
The mind and body aren’t separated- and neither should the health-care delivery system- especially for folks with a serious mental illness. People with a serious mental illness die more than 25 years earlier than the general population… an unacceptable health disparity in anybody’s book. The increased mortality is largely from treatable medical conditions caused by modifiable risk factors like smoking, [...]