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Here you will find topics ranging from current events that affect public health in Arizona to overall information about the Arizona Department of Health Services

Medical Condition Petition Status

By azdhs-admin| 2012-07-06T11:11:56-07:00 July 6th, 2012|General|

The AZ Medical Marijuana Act requires us to periodically accept petitions to add new medical conditions to the list of conditions that qualify folks for an AZ Medical Marijuana Registration Card. In January, we accepted petitions from the public and had a public hearing in May. Folks submitted numerous articles as a part their petitions for PTSD 1; PTSD 2; Depression; Migraines; and Generalized [...]

Telling the Public Health Story

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00 July 5th, 2012|General|

One of the key elements of our Strategic Plan is to “Build Public Health Value.” One of the best ways to do that is to tell good stories that capture people’s attention and imagination- stories that highlight the value of public health. During our Division of Licensing’s employee recognition event last week, Larry Martens read [...]

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2012 Water Drive Success

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:07-07:00 June 29th, 2012|General|

Quite a show of teamwork from all our staff today as they moved more than 60 thousand bottles of water out of storage into a huge pile in the parking lot of 1740. But the work wasn't done – they loaded all that water into trucks, trailers and vans to be distributed throughout Maricopa County [...]

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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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Walking the Balance Beam

By Will Humble| 2012-06-26T08:39:34-07:00 June 26th, 2012|General|

One of the balancing acts that folks living with disabilities face is how to navigate employment opportunities and still keep the services that keep them healthy and able to work in the first place. There’s a great new statewide resource that can help folks with disabilities and their families make informed decisions. It’s a web [...]

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Bear Brains

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00 June 25th, 2012|General|

Some of our Laboratory scientists (Kathryn Fitzpatrick, Alexandra Bhatti, Heather Bickley and Charles Martin) are busy right now testing the brains of the 2 bears that were destroyed over the weekend to see if they had rabies. You might have heard about the bear attacks, which happened in and around Payson recently. On Sunday, a [...]

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M2 Contracts On Deck

By Will Humble| 2012-06-23T09:04:27-07:00 June 23rd, 2012|General|

We have a couple of new projects in the works to ensure that the dispensary system reflects a medical rather than a recreational system. We’re working with Arizona's pharmacy/poison control systems to put together a contract to provide technical assistance and educational materials to the future dispensary medical directors. We’re also putting together a contract [...]

Movin’ on Up

By Will Humble| 2012-06-22T12:52:50-07:00 June 22nd, 2012|General|

Our Forensic Hospital transition team successfully transferred our forensic patients to the new facility this week. In all, 100 patients in 6 different units were moved into the new forensic hospital this week. Things were smooth because of careful planning and solid execution by nursing, IT, Operations, Campus Support & Safety, Rehab Services, Social Services, Psychology Services, Crothall Housekeeping and Facilities, [...]

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Selection Tuesday

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00 June 21st, 2012|General|

Overall, we ended up receiving 486 medical marijuana dispensary applications among our 126 Community Health Analysis Areas (CHAAs). Twenty-seven of the CHAAs had no applicant at all- leaving 99 Community Health Analysis Areas with at least 1 applicant. Seventy-five of the 99 had more than 1 applicant. Assuming that each of these end up being complete, we’ll [...]

‘Tis the Season to Stay Hydrated…

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00 June 18th, 2012|General|

An excessive heat warning has been issued this week, with temps climbing up to 113!!!! The AZ heat is a lot more than a nuisance – it's lethal. Our latest report on heat shows that about 1,400 Arizonans get a heat related illness so serious they end up in a hospital emergency room – hundreds [...]

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