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Behavioral Health covers topics dealing with mental health in our state. This ranges from information about programs to help individuals have good mental health to Governmental topics like Regional Behavioral Health Authorities.

Health Homes Resources

By Will Humble| 2012-07-11T08:12:46-07:00 July 11th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

SAMHSA put a great new resource from their Center for Integrated Health Solutions which helps prepare behavioral health provider organizations to become health homes by outlining the essential clinical features. It also displays examples of how behavioral health provider organizations are successfully implementing the clinical features of a health home around the country. Check it out.

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Madan Jumps In Head-first

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00 June 28th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Our own Madan Gopal from I.T. has been invited by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to participate in a national Roundtable discussion about the role and use of health IT to fill the needs of behavioral health providers, to integrate behavioral health record data into primary care, and on how ”Meaningful Use” could [...]

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Behavioral Health Contract Scope Enters the Homestretch

By Will Humble| 2012-06-20T08:11:48-07:00 June 20th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

Our Request For Purchase (otherwise known as RFP) Core Team (Bob Sorce, Victoria Navarra, Teresita Oaks, and Chris Leavitt) and our entire cast of characters has been doing a full court press for the last 6 months to put together the Scope of Work that we’ll use when we go out for bid for the massive behavioral health services [...]

Sonoran Public Health Department & ADHS Snag the Paul Fannin Award

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00 June 11th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General, Licensing, Preparedness, Prevention|

The Secretario de Salud Publica & the ADHS jointly received the Arizona Mexico Commission’s Paul Fannin award for our public health collaborations last Friday night. This is a top award for the Commission- with the award going to “… an organization that has demonstrated acts of goodwill and support toward the development of the Arizona-Sonora relationship.” It’s named after the [...]

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Water Drive II

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00 June 7th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Last year our Agency pulled through big-time during our bottled water drive- collecting and donating 68,000 bottles of water for thirsty homeless folks. This month we’re having our 2nd annual Water Challenge with a goal of 75,000 bottles by the end of June. If we meet the goal of 75,000 bottles collected in June, we’ll all get [...]

Behavioral Health Licensing Rulemaking Update

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00 May 31st, 2012|Behavioral Health|

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts- we’re in the beginning phases of overhauling our regulations for licensing behavioral health facilities. This’ll be a long process- and the finish line is in mid-2013. We’re starting with a set of what we’ll call “straw-man” language that we can use as a way to start the discussions. We’ve [...]

ADHS is Seeking an Insightful, Creative Leader for Behavioral Health

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:11-07:00 May 15th, 2012|Behavioral Health, General|

Do you think you can help us in “Promoting Health and Wellness for all Arizonans”. That’s the motto here at ADHS and we are looking for a new leader to join our Behavioral Health team. We’re looking for an Assistant Director who is insightful and can see the forest and trees at the same time. [...]

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Implementing Our Strategic Plan- Integrate Behavioral and Acute Health Care

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00 May 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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AZ’s Behavioral Health State Plan

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00 April 9th, 2012|Behavioral Health|

Our Division of Behavioral Health Services recently submitted its combined mental health and substance abuse prevention and treatment services State Plan for FY 12-13 to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Plan that we submitted doubles as the State Plan that’s required by ARS 36-550.01. The Plan provides an overview of Arizona’s [...]

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Behavioral Health Dashboard Refresh

By Will Humble| 2012-04-03T08:27:17-07:00 April 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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