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Our New Strategic Plan

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:55-07:00October 17th, 2012|General|

The vision of the Department is to ideally achieve a state of Health and Wellness for all Arizonans and our mission is to promote, protect, and improve the health and wellness of individuals and communities in Arizona. The updated mission and vision statements are helping us build public health value in-house as well as in [...]

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Outcomes: Public Health’s Lighthouse

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:55-07:00October 16th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

One of our primary objectives over the last couple of years 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 [...]

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Medicare’s Open Enrollment Period begins today

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:55-07:00October 15th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

October 15 to December 7 is when ALL people with Medicare can change their Medicare health plan and prescription drug coverage for 2013. Information on 2013 plans will be available beginning in October. People with Medicare can call 1-800-MEDICARE or visit www.medicare.gov for plan information. If a person is satisfied that their current plan will meet [...]

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Improving Physical Activity & Nutrition for Folks with Special Needs

By Will Humble|2012-10-10T08:28:49-07:00October 10th, 2012|General|

Special Olympics Arizona’s (SOAz) has been a core partner for improving the health of folks with disabilities in Arizona for a long time. They'll have an opportunity to take their mission even further as a result of our new partnership between Special Olympics and our Office for Children with Special Health Care Needs to better integrate kids with [...]

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Energize Our Borders

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:57-07:00October 9th, 2012|General|

I just got back from this year’s (30th annual) United States-Mexico Border Governor’s Conference in Albuquerque- called “Energize Our Borders”. It was an opportunity to further strengthen the ties of friendship, security, and economic prosperity among the 10 states that comprise our United States-Mexico border region. The Conference is made up of 7 worktables including Agriculture and [...]

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2012 State by State Preparedness Report

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:58-07:00October 2nd, 2012|General, Preparedness, Prevention|

Safeguarding the public’s health is more important than ever. Whether the threat is a disease outbreak, environmental hazard or natural disaster, the public health system works 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to keep Arizonans safe. Each year, the CDC evaluates state and local public health preparedness programs in a detailed report. This [...]

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To helmet or not?

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:59-07:00September 25th, 2012|General, Prevention|

Cooler temperatures have many people looking for new adventures, even in the high country. Cycling is fun for the entire family, but it’s important to be as safe as possible. Knowing the rules of the road is important, but so is personal protection – like helmets. Injuries to the head are the most common among [...]

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Annual Abortion Report Published

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:00-07:00September 18th, 2012|General, Prevention|

A couple of years ago a bill was passed that required our agency to do a comprehensive statistical report about abortion in Arizona. We published our second annual report this week… which includes data compiled from elective abortion procedures reports, complications from abortions reports and petitions filed authorizing abortions to minors. Facilities that provide the [...]

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ADHS Benefits Eligibility

By Will Humble|2012-09-17T09:22:13-07:00September 17th, 2012|General|

We often get questions from people at meetings and our stakeholders about citizenship or residency requirements for programs that ADHS runs. It really depends on the program and with dozens of programs, there’s no one answer. We posted a frequently asked question sheet on our website, but we wanted to make it even easier for people [...]

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State Personnel Annual Report

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:00-07:00September 17th, 2012|General|

The ADOA published a very interesting annual report about the state government’s workforce this week. It includes over 30 charts and tables of information regarding the status of the State’s workforce. Some of the highlights in this year’s report include: 1) the number of active employees; 2) vacant positions; 3) average salaries of covered employees; and [...]

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