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Statewide Advisory Group Seeking New Members

By Cara Christ| 2017-02-10T09:49:13-07:00 June 5th, 2015|General, Prevention|

The newly formed HIV Statewide Advisory Group (SWAG) is recruiting up to 12 new members to represent people living with HIV, those affected by the disease, and HIV care and social service providers statewide. The SWAG is charged with providing planning and guidance for the delivery of services funded by the SWAG and Ryan White [...]

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2015 ADVICE Collaborative III: Striving for Excellence

By Cara Christ| 2017-02-10T09:49:13-07:00 June 1st, 2015|General|

Back in 2013, our Licensing team partnered with our Infectious Disease Services team and the Healthcare Associated Infections Advisory Committee to put together a day-long conference aimed at improving infection control practices. The ADVICE Collaborative brought together licensed dialysis providers, the dialysis network, federal partners and public health professionals to find new ways to promote infection control, build relationships, and identify [...]

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Sixth Annual Arizona Infectious Disease Training and Exercise Coming Soon

By Cara Christ| 2017-02-10T09:49:13-07:00 May 27th, 2015|General|

We're currently busy planning our 6th annual Arizona Infectious Disease Training and Exercise, which will take place from July 21st-23rd this year. This event brings together nearly 400 infection control practitioners, public and community health nurses, health educators, epidemiologists, sanitarians, correctional facility representatives, animal control agencies, preparedness coordinators, laboratorians, border health counterparts, and university faculty and students to [...]

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New Foods for WIC Families in Arizona

By Cory Nelson| 2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00 May 11th, 2015|General|

Getting kids to eat healthy is hard, especially for busy moms. The Arizona WIC program now offers new foods to help families provide nutritious meals. Yogurt, whole wheat pasta, and new brands of cereal and baby foods for older babies are now available through the WIC program. The full list of foods includes many fresh, frozen and canned vegetables, [...]

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Empowering Habits, Empowering Lives: Superheroes Empowering Arizona!

By Cory Nelson| 2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00 May 5th, 2015|General|

This past weekend, we held the fourth annual “Empowering Habits and Empowering Lives” Empower Conference. More than 250 Early Care and Education professionals from all over Arizona participated in the all-day meeting. Conference participants explored the Empower Program's 10 Standards to Empower Children to Live Healthy Lives and learned how to be more effective through developing cultural [...]

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Title V Priority Setting Meeting

By Cory Nelson| 2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00 April 20th, 2015|General, Prevention|

Our Women’s and Children’s Health team administers the federal maternal Child Health Block Grant. This grant is authorized through Title V of the Social Security Act and has been in place since 1935. Every 5 years we look at the health and well-being of Arizona’s women and children and develop our top priorities based on [...]

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More EMS Web-based Improvements to Launch This Month

By Cory Nelson| 2017-02-10T09:49:14-07:00 April 6th, 2015|General|

A year ago, our Bureau of EMS and Trauma System launched its Web-based EMCT registration program. The Bureau along with our IT staff have been hard at work on the next phase of their automation project, the EMS Training Program portal. The portal will go live this month allowing the EMS Training Program folks to submit all of the required registration, [...]

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National Public Health Week 2015 website launched

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:15-07:00 March 4th, 2015|General|

The website for National Public Health Week, which will run April 6-12 this year, is now open for business. Visit www.nphw.org to stay abreast of information and events and access the NPHW toolkit. The toolkit contains fact sheets, media outreach materials, suggested community events, legislative information and other helpful resources and activities. This year's NPHW [...]

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Tuberculosis: Stubborn but Eradicable

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:16-07:00 March 3rd, 2015|General|

In the past, tuberculosis was all over popular culture. It was portrayed in opera (Puccini’s La bóheme, Verdi’s La Traviata), in novels (Tolstoy’s Anna Karénina, Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment), and in poetry (works by both Keats and Shelley). Nowadays, it seems like the only time TB is in the news is when it’s about ancient [...]

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Big Behavioral Health Procurement in the Books

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:49:16-07:00 March 2nd, 2015|General|

In mid-December (2014) we awarded contracts for the Northern and Southern regions of the state to Health Choice Integrated Care and Cenpatico Integrated Care. On January 2nd United Healthcare filed a Protest with the ADHS for the award in Southern AZ, requesting an Emergency Stay and Administrative Hearing. On January 21 we denied the Protest. United [...]

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