New Housing and Chronic Disease Prevention Grants
Our Behavioral Health Division picked up a cool $2M (federal) grant from the AZ Department of Housing last month. This $2M plus the $2M we received several months ago, now equals $4M that we’ll be able to use in our bridge subsidy voucher program. Just like in sales, the cornerstone for making public health progress is to sharpen your focus [...]
Home Visiting Needs Assessment
Recent research on brain development has found long-term benefits for families when they receive home visits during pregnancy and after the birth of a child. Benefits include enhanced child health and development, reduced child abuse and neglect, early identification and treatment of developmental delays and health issues, improved pregnancy outcomes, improved self-sufficiency of the family, improved school readiness and better [...]
ADHS Rocks Resuscitation World (Again)
We were part of a landmark journal article in JAMA this week that will most likely change the way CPR is done in the US and maybe worldwide. Our ADHS EMS team partnered with the UA, municipal fire departments & hospitals across the state to accurately track bystander CPR and survival rates from cardiac arrest and look at outcomes. The article is [...]
More support for nutrition in the food stamp program
NYC is climbing on the SNAP better nutrition train today; it is asking the feds to forbid people from buying sugary drinks with food stamps. This should sound pretty familiar to my blog readers. I’ve been banging on this drum for months – we need to add nutritional standards to the criteria for folks who benefit from the nutritional package. [...]
Coming Soon: A Marijuana Dispensary Near You?
Will a marijuana dispensary pop up in your neighborhood at the old payday loan store? It depends. If the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act passes, there could be up to 120 dispensaries (and their indoor cultivation facilities) setting up shop across the state. Where they actually go will depend on what kind of local zoning restrictions exist at the time the [...]
Fresh Childcare Center Rules Go Live
The new child care center standards went into effect last week. Check out our newly revamped child care licensing website, which has the latest for parents, consumers, childcare operators and others. Our Licensing, rules, and all the other ADHS experts who contributed to the new rules and did a fantastic job. Our success was directly tied to the open and [...]