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World Breastfeeding Week

By Will Humble|2010-08-06T13:25:59-07:00August 6th, 2010|General|

Arizona enjoys a relatively high breastfeeding rate compared to the rest of the country- with 78% of all newborns being breastfed. But we can always do better, that’s why we’re joining the rest of the world in celebrating World Breastfeeding Week, which promotes the health and well-being of mothers, babies and families throughout the world. [...]

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Arizona’s Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan Goes Live

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:12-07:00August 6th, 2010|Behavioral Health, General|

Some of the folks that we serve in our diverse mission have complicated medical conditions and may have had trouble in the past finding health insurance because of a pre-existing health problem. The new federal healthcare reform law may be able to help some of these folks under the newly created “Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP)”… [...]

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Successful Budget Load

By Will Humble|2010-08-05T15:08:53-07:00August 5th, 2010|General|

The first part of the fiscal year (July) is always a busy time for our budget folks. The new fiscal year requires a lot of data entry, cross-checks, analysis and review. It was a busy time of year even when we had several people in the budget office. This year we got the job done [...]

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Delta Society

By Will Humble|2010-08-05T07:25:25-07:00August 5th, 2010|General|

Cindy from the Delta Society began making visits with her therapy dogs at the Arizona State Hospital a couple of weeks ago. The Delta Society is a volunteer organization that improves people's health and well-being using positive interactions with animals. Their mission is to help people by incorporating therapy, service and companion animals into their [...]

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Congrats Arizona State Hospital

By Will Humble|2010-08-04T13:23:44-07:00August 4th, 2010|General|

Congratulations to our team at the Arizona State Hospital- which was ranked in the top 20% of all US psychiatric hospitals. The report was put together by the US News and World Report and ranks psychiatric hospitals using objective criteria as well as the hospital’s reputation with clinicians. Overall, ASH ranked number 31 of [...]

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Citizenship, Benefits & Services

By Will Humble|2010-08-03T09:33:05-07:00August 3rd, 2010|Behavioral Health, General|

Many of our Stakeholders and the folks that we serve have asked about how Arizona and Federal laws affect the kinds of services that the ADHS provides. The answer is (of course) “it depends.” It depends on what kind of benefit or service you’re talking about. Tom Salow, Lynn Golder and others have put together [...]

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Citizenship, Benefits & Services

By Will Humble|2012-08-17T16:35:48-07:00August 3rd, 2010|Behavioral Health, General|

Many of our Stakeholders and the folks that we serve have asked about how Arizona and Federal laws affect the kinds of services that the ADHS provides. The answer is (of course) “it depends.” It depends on what kind of benefit or service you’re talking about. Tom Salow, Lynn Golder and others have put together [...]

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ADHS E-Communications Site

By Will Humble|2010-08-02T14:26:51-07:00August 2nd, 2010|General|

Just a reminder that you can sign up for electronic notifications in your in-box of our media releases, and lots of other cool communications like our weekly, in-season, healthy recipe at: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1101362445484. Tell your friends too.

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Farmers' Market Locator

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:12-07:00August 2nd, 2010|General|

We’ve got a groovy new Farmers' Market Locator up on our WIC website. It help anybody in Arizona find the closest farmers market. Simply go to the application link and put in any address and city and push “Find Market”. The program will list all the markets including links that give you the time of year, dates [...]

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Farmers’ Market Locator

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:52:12-07:00August 2nd, 2010|General|

We’ve got a groovy new Farmers' Market Locator up on our WIC website. It help anybody in Arizona find the closest farmers market. Simply go to the application link and put in any address and city and push “Find Market”. The program will list all the markets including links that give you the time of year, dates [...]

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