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AZ Legal Options Guide

By Will Humble|2012-05-11T08:56:38-07:00May 11th, 2012|General|

One of my jobs is to serve on the AZ Developmental Disabilities Planning Council (DDPC). We have lots of goals- and one of them is to help folks with disabilities, their families and caregivers to learn about options that are available when an adult with a disability needs legal help to manage one or more facets of his or her [...]

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Interim AD for Licensing

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:11-07:00May 10th, 2012|General, Licensing|

Colby Bower will serve as our Interim Assistant Director for Licensing while we recruit and hire a permanent Assistant Director. Colby has been serving as our Legislative Affairs chief for the last couple of years. Colby fills several of the criteria that we needed for the interim post: 1) He’s a good risk manager and [...]

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Public Health Budget

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00May 9th, 2012|General, Newborn Screening|

The Governor signed the budget this week - here's a look at how some of it affects public health: Behavioral Health Services for folks that don’t Qualify for Medicaid The budget that was just signed includes about $39M in new funding for services for folks with a serious mental illness that don’t qualify for Medicaid. [...]

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Dispensary Medical Direction is a Go

By Will Humble|2012-05-08T12:42:20-07:00May 8th, 2012|General|

One of the outstanding legal uncertainties regarding our implementation of AZ Medical Marijuana Act has been the Compassion First v. Brewer lawsuit that challenged our authority to require future dispensaries to have a Medical Director. We’ve always thought dispensary medical direction was a key component to making sure that future dispensaries act in the best [...]

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New Border Health Resources

By Will Humble|2012-05-07T09:07:20-07:00May 7th, 2012|General|

Obesity, injury prevention, teen pregnancy, and substance abuse are all border health priorities. Our prevention team put together an inventory identifying current programs addressing these priority areas in AZs border communities. Our WIC program and Arizona Nutrition Network reach thousands of low-income women and kids along the border- improving nutrition and reducing obesity. Programs like our Sexual Violence Prevention & Education and Safe Kids [...]

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Winnable Battles

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00May 4th, 2012|General|

As part of our strategic plan, we name 5 winnable battles to prioritize over the next 1-3 years. While not de-emphasizing work in other areas, this is an important effort to achieve measurable impact quickly in a few targeted areas. We’ve identified five areas as key domestic winnable battles for improving our state’s health, based [...]

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ADHS Annual Report

By Will Humble|2012-05-03T08:37:14-07:00May 3rd, 2012|General|

We published our 2011 ADHS Annual Report this week. Rather than reproduce all of our activities in narrative form- we used a summary approach this year that incorporates a lot of “hot links” to more information about our achievements.

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New AZ Biomedical Research Commission Kick-off

By Will Humble|2012-05-01T11:21:03-07:00May 1st, 2012|General|

You might remember that the Arizona Biomedical Research Commission was transferred to the ADHS last legislative session. We officially became responsible for the Commission in July of 2011. My first priorities were to get a clear analysis of the “books” (e.g. the financial records etc.), get a handle on the outstanding research projects that the Commission [...]

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Doctor/Patient Density- Our Online Gap Analysis Map

By Will Humble|2012-04-30T09:36:20-07:00April 30th, 2012|General|

In public health it’s good to know where the resources are – and where they're short. Our Health Systems Development team created an excellent online tool to help our partners keep track of resources -- to see where we have enough physicians and where we could use more. It also shows how much of an area is [...]

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Trash Your Stash V

By Will Humble|2012-04-27T12:42:20-07:00April 27th, 2012|General|

Prescription drugs can be safe and effective at treating illnesses- but leftovers are also tempting for experimental teens- and the misuse of narcotic prescriptions is an increasingly urgent public health problem in Arizona. In fact, more than 1,100 Arizonans died from prescription drug poisoning from misuse and abuse last year- which is more than the number [...]

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