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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

Strategic Plan Update

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00 June 13th, 2012|General|

Strategic Effectiveness is defined by three essential components: Formulate a Plan, Implement the Plan, and Review and Adjust. Many times we do the first two and forget to come back to the third most important step needed for true progress to occur. To “review and adjust,” our senior leadership met in mid-April to do an annual [...]

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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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Midwives file report

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:08-07:00 June 8th, 2012|General|

As I mentioned before, one of the great things about this country is the ability to get involved in your government to make things happen. Well, today was another important step for the midwife group as they fulfilled an important part of the process outlined in a bill that was successfully run through the legislative [...]

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The Gray Lady Speaks

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00 June 8th, 2012|General|

The standards set by ADHS for the medical marijuana dispensaries made the big time today. The New York Times carried a story today that highlights the limited number of dispensaries in the state; the need for dispensaries to carefully secure, store and track the marijuana; and the medical director functions. The reporter interviewed dispensary applicants, some [...]

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 [...]

Moms & Kids

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00 June 6th, 2012|General|

It’s time for our Bureau of Women’s & Children’s Health and our Office of Children with Special Health Care Needs to complete their annual application for the Maternal and Child Health Title V Block Grant. When you hear “Title V”, people are talking about our maternal and child health prevention programs. These programs work with [...]

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“Be SunWise & Play Sun Smart”

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00 June 5th, 2012|General|

Aksel Laudon, a 6th-grade student at Kyrene Centennial Middle School in Phoenix, is this year’s “Be SunWise and Play Sun Smart” poster-drawing contest winner. Aksel’s drawing was selected by the Arizona Diamondbacks from more than 7,000 student poster entries. Aksel and his teacher Jeffrey Garrett, and their families will be celebrated at the June 5 DBacks game in a pre-game award ceremony on [...]

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AZ Cancer Registry Scores Gold

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00 June 4th, 2012|General|

Our Arizona Cancer Registry scored a coveted Gold rating from the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) this week for having complete and accurate data suitable for calculating complete and accurate incidence statistics. We’ve received Silver ratings for the last several years- but this year we got the Gold for our increased its data completeness [...]

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The Texas Sharpshooter

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:09-07:00 June 1st, 2012|General|

There’s an old tale about a Texas “Sharpshooter” that pulls his pistol out of his holster and shoots at the broad side of a barn pretty much at random without aiming. Then he goes up to the barn with a paintbrush and draws a circle around the bullet holes and says: “See, I have perfect [...]

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Smoke Free AZ Turns 5

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:10-07:00 May 30th, 2012|General, Prevention|

It’s hard to believe- but our Smoke Free Arizona program turned 5 this month. Voters approved the Act back in November of ’06 by a few percentage points. The Initiative language gave us a super-short turn-around time (just like medical marijuana)… and we turned the key on the program by May of ’07. Implementation of the [...]

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