Behavioral health

Implementing Our Strategic Plan- Integrate Behavioral and Acute Health Care

By |2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00May 1st, 2012|Behavioral Health|

Our interdisciplinary team completed a major milestone this week- by developing an initial rough draft of what will become the Scope of Work that will be included in the upcoming Request for Proposal for the behavioral health (and acute care) services in Maricopa County. This effort has taken literally thousands of staff hours to put together- and [...]

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Trauma Informed Care

By |2017-02-10T09:51:13-07:00April 12th, 2012|General|

Trauma Informed Care provides another perspective when working with individuals in the behavioral health system.  Think of it this way, our life experiences have helped shape each of us into the person we are today, why would it be any different for our patients/residents. When a person experiences trauma it can have any number of effects [...]

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Behavioral Health Dashboard Refresh

By |2012-04-03T08:27:17-07:00April 3rd, 2012|Behavioral Health|

Magellan of AZ & their behavioral health providers (and of course our DBHS shop) have been collaborating to develop and update an innovative provider outcomes dashboards to make a transparent window into the effectiveness of the behavioral health system based on core metrics.  The recently updated online dashboards provide great info to the folks that we serve and their [...]

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Behavioral Health Licensing Regulatory Reform

By |2012-03-30T15:43:16-07:00March 30th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

The behavioral health system transformation that we’re working on as part of the Maricopa County behavioral health services contract will go a long way toward better integrating primary and acute care and behavioral healthcare for folks with a serious mental illness.  But…  our success is also dependent on our regulatory reform within our Licensing shop.  In fact, [...]

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Behavioral Health “RFI”

By |2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00March 27th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

We had a productive “Request For Information (RFI)” session this week regarding our ”Recovery Through Whole Health, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority with Health Homes”  project.  About 150 folks attended the session- including potential bidders, members of the behavioral health provider community and peers and family members.  We’ll be using the information from the session [...]

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National Poison Prevention Week

By |2012-03-26T08:18:49-07:00March 23rd, 2012|Prevention|

This week marks the 50th anniversary of National Poison Prevention Week. For the first time ever- poisoning surpassed car crashes as the number one cause of injury deaths in AZ and more than 2,000 kids had to go to emergency rooms last year from unintentional poisoning.  Kids under 5 had the highest rates of non-fatal emergency department visits from poisoning.  For more [...]

Peer & Family Behavioral Health Report

By |2017-02-10T09:51:16-07:00February 28th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

We recently held a series of focus groups and interviews to obtain input from persons with Serious Mental Illnesses (peers) and their family members regarding the integration of physical healthcare and behavioral healthcare services in partnership with St. Luke’s Health Initiative and AHCCCS, and several behavioral health peer-run organizations and peer and family members.  The [...]

100 Years (actually more) of the AZ State Hospital

By |2012-02-16T19:00:44-07:00February 16th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Check our excellent new web page about the history of the AZ State hospital. The stuff on the new hospital history page is fascinating. One of the things that struck me is that the issues of concern to the Superintendent of the Hospital 100 years ago were remarkable similar to today. The 100 year old [...]

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Recovery Through Whole Health RFI

By |2012-03-20T07:36:42-07:00February 9th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

We’ll be having a “Request For Information” session regarding our “ Recovery Through Whole Health, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority with Health Homes” project (a.k.a. the upcoming Request for Proposal for behavioral health services in Maricopa County) on March 21 from 1- 5 pm at the Radisson City Center at 3600 N. 2nd Ave. in Phoenix. We’ll [...]

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