New Infection Control Guidelines for Outpatient Medical Facilities
CDC has developed new and easy-to-use resources for preventing infections in outpatient treatment facilities. The Infection Prevention Guide and Prevention Checklist is posted on the new CDC website for outpatient care facilities.
Break Out Your Favorite Healthy Recipe, Arizona!
We’re excited to roll out the new cottage industry food law . You can see the new statute at A.R.S. 36-136(H)(4)(g). It’ll provide self-employment opportunities to folks that might not otherwise be able to find work and for supplemental income for others that have a great recipe. The new law allows folks to bake food (not considered “potentially hazardous” as defined by our [...]
Let’s Get Kids Off to a Healthy Start
We know from research that the first five years of a child’s life are incredibly important. The brain is still being formed, and we have the chance to impact a kid’s whole life by building a strong foundation. One of the best places for public health to get involved is through child care. At ADHS, the Office of Child Care [...]
How Come High School Looks so Hard Today?
If you're like me, and your high school teen asks for help with math, you probably said to yourself or them “what the heck is that? I can’t help you- you’ll have to read the chapter”. The math work might seem harder today partly because today’s teens weren’t lead poisoned like my generation was (people in their late 40’s and 50’s). In the late 1960’s it [...]
Behavioral Health Outcome Dashboards Really Taking Off
One of our primary objectives over the last couple of years in behavioral health has been to shift the focus of our performance measures away from process and procedures toward actual outcomes. In other words, we don’t want to measure our success on whether someone’s paperwork is right, but on whether the services we provide actually help folks achieve their [...]
Step Up to the Plate
It’s time to step up to the plate if you’re interested in providing clear and concise information about how best to integrate primary and acute healthcare with behavioral health care for folks with serious mental illnesses in Arizona. One of our top priorities in behavioral health over the coming years will be to better integrate physical health and mental health/substance [...]