Losing Stuff
Please make sure that you tell the ITS Help Desk (602-364-4444 opt 5, email HelpDesk) or HIPAA office (602-542-1020), email HIPAA) right away if you ever lose a computer, PC, laptop, BlackBerry, hard drive, CD, flash drive, copier, printer, server, or anything that could be used to store, transmit, or process data. Our official Policy ADM022 Reporting an Information Resource Privacy or Security [...]
Inpatient Behavioral Health Hospitals Licensing
For many years, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has required inpatient hospitals that serve people under 21 to be accredited by The Joint Commission (formerly called the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or JCAHO). Because the Commission standards are pretty rigorous, we’ve had limited network capacity for the inpatient treatment for adolescents and young adults [...]
New “Health Center Access Point” Grants
The HHS announced availability of the “Health Center New Access Point” Grants. Up to $250M is available for the delivery of primary health care services for underserved and vulnerable populations under the Health Center Program. A new access point is a new full-time service delivery site that provides comprehensive primary and preventive health care services. New access points improve the [...]
Medical Marijuana (Cannabis) Ballot Language Finalized
The language for all of the ballot propositions, including the Arizona Medical Marijuana (Cannabis) Act, was approved this week. Last week, an analysis of the initiative for the voter guide was written by the Legislative Council. The actual words that will be on the ballot for Proposition 203 is as follows: Proposition 203 – proposed by initiative petition relating [...]
ADHS Aces FY ’10 Licensing Timeframes
Did you know that we issue nearly 20,000 licenses every year- on everything from hospitals to childcare centers, midwives, trauma centers and sanitarians? We’re required to have meet certain time-frames for each license or approval the Department issues- and we issue a lot of licenses. If we don’t process the license within the timeframe, we’re required to return any application [...]
Yet Another Obesity Call to Action
You probably think I sound like a broken record because I’m always writing about obesity… but it really is the dominant public health issue of our time. Last week, the CDC released its latest Vital Signs report called "State-Specific Obesity Prevalence Among Adults – United States, 2009,"… which finds that nine states had an obesity rate of 30 percent or [...]