The Road to Lifelong Health Begins with Breastfeeding
The first week of August is World Breastfeeding Week and it has been for 20 years. This year’s theme is The Road to Lifelong Health Begins with Breastfeeding. Those long-term benefits apply to both mothers and babies. When babies are fed human milk, they are more likely to avoid obesity, less likely to die from SIDS, and have a lower [...]
Acting Deputy for Behavioral Health
Thanks for your patience as we developed our continuity plan for leadership in our Division of Behavioral Health. I know you’re all anxious to hear the transition plan for after Dr. Nelson leaves on August 24. Fortunately, we are very lucky to have so many strong leaders here at the agency, including a really great team of DBHS Branch Chiefs [...]
New RFP Dates & Brief Update
Our behavioral health RFP Core Team (Bob Sorce, Victoria Navarra, Teresita Oaks, and Chris Leavitt) and our entire cast of characters have been doing a full court press for the last 7 months to put together the Scope of Work that we’ll use when we go out for bid for the massive behavioral health services contract in Maricopa County later [...]
Registration Certificate Selection Tuesday
Next Tuesday (August 7) is "Selection Tuesday" for our medical marijuana dispensary applicants. By the end of the day, we’ll have whittled the initial pool of 486 medical marijuana dispensary applications down to 99. We won’t be allocating the full allotment of 126 Registration Certificates on Tuesday because 27 of our Community Health Analysis Areas had no applicant at all- [...]
The Olympic Diet
Ok.. here's a quiz. One of the lists below represents the most commonly ordered foods at the Olympic Village by the athletes in London. The other list is the list of most commonly purchased foods in the US by normal consumers (by dollar value). Can you match the list to the right cohort? List A - Water, vegetables, Low [...]
Cottage Industry Foods Anniversary
We’re celebrating the 1st birthday of the our Home Baked and Confectionary Goods program this week. So far, we’ve signed up more than 1,400 participants. Over the past year, we’ve finalized our rules for the program and produced an educational video. The participants are making a variety of home baked goods ranging from gluten-free baked goods to fudge to a [...]