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Troubled Teens: At Risk and Not Overlooked

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:40-07:00February 19th, 2013|Behavioral Health, General, Licensing|

Our Vision at the Arizona Department of Health Services is ”Health and Wellness for all Arizonans”. Part of that Vision for folks living with behavioral health issues or a mental illness means achieving and maintaining self-reliance and independence. To get there, some individuals simply need outpatient services occasionally. Some need wrap-around community or home-based services. [...]

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Hearing and Vision Screening

By Will Humble|2014-04-09T15:18:33-07:00February 19th, 2013|General, Newborn Screening|

According to the CDC about 15% of school age kids have some hearing loss. Children who are hard of hearing will find it harder to learn vocabulary, grammar, word order, and other parts of verbal communication. Newborn hearing loss occurs in about 1 in 5,000 births- which is why it’s so important that AZ kids [...]

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Blessing Bag Update

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:42-07:00February 15th, 2013|General|

I wanted to update on one of my December blog posts. Around the holidays, patients at the Arizona State Hospital decided to take on a project – to help the homeless. Patients wanted an opportunity to give back to the community in a way that would help those in need. They chose a project working [...]

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Show Your Love

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:42-07:00February 14th, 2013|General, Prevention|

Valentine’s Day isn’t just a day of romance, flowers and candy. The CDC Preconception Health and Health Care Initiative launched a campaign asking all women of childbearing age to Show Your Love by taking good care of themselves. It’s a national initiative to educate women and couples on the importance of preconception health. Preconception health [...]

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Our Most Popular ADHS Website

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:43-07:00February 14th, 2013|General|

Guess which one of our ADHS Websites consistently has the most hits. Our influenza pages during flu season? Medical marijuana during our rulemaking? Questions about WIC eligibility? Nope. It’s our Genealogy website. The site has had more than 5,100,000 queries in the last 2 years. Our Vital Records team has been keeping data on birth and [...]

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New State Hospital Treatment Approach Leads to Improved Outcomes

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:43-07:00February 12th, 2013|Behavioral Health, General|

One priority at ADHS is helping patients on their path to Recovery at the State Hospital. Our Hospital team cares for people who have mental health issues, whether for civil reasons or committed through the criminal courts. We also oversee the Arizona Community Protection and Treatment Center. Recent changes in security are making the Hospital a better [...]

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Patients’ Drive to Help Homeless a Success

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:43-07:00February 11th, 2013|General|

I wanted to update on one of my December blog posts. Around the holidays, patients at the Arizona State Hospital decided to take on a project – to help the homeless. Patients wanted an opportunity to give back to the community in a way that would help those in need. They chose a project working [...]

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Mealtime

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:43-07:00February 7th, 2013|General, Prevention|

Does when you eat make a difference in how much you weigh? A new study in the International Journal of Obesity indicates eating late may make it less likely you will lose weight as quickly. The five-month study was done in Spain and included 420 people in a weight loss program using the Mediterranean Diet. [...]

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AZ’s Traumatic Brain Injury Network Developing

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:44-07:00February 6th, 2013|General, Preparedness|

Traumatic brain injury is involved in about 1/3 of all injury-related deaths- it’s clearly a public health issue. That’s why we created Arizona's Excellence in Pre-hospital Injury Care project- which is aimed at improving brain injury outcomes in AZ. The National Institutes of Health chose AZ as the only state to evaluate the national standards [...]

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Empowering Opportunity

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:44-07:00February 4th, 2013|General|

The Arizona Developmental Disabilities Planning Council just released a grant opportunity for folks that would like to get info out to folks with developmental disabilities, their families, caregivers, professionals empowering persons with developmental disabilities and their families. The goal is to provide easy to understand and practical information out that promotes informed decision making when [...]

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