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Dr. Jack

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:15-07:00 March 5th, 2012|General, Prevention|

I had the delightful experience of meeting with our former Director, Jack Dillenberg, at our AZ Developmental Disabilities Planning Council meeting last month. Our Council meeting was out at AT Still University’s AZ School of Dentistry & Oral Health. It was great seeing Jack again- he hasn't changed a bit- he's just as enthusiastic and animated as ever. Most of [...]

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Procurement Keeps our Trains Running on Time

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:15-07:00 March 2nd, 2012|General|

OK… everybody knows that we have all sorts of recognition weeks and months for everything from breastfeeding to mental health. Most folks don’t know that March is Purchasing Month. But let’s face it- none of us would be able to accomplish anything in this business without our Procurement team! Our Procurement shop touches every aspect [...]

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Ink Dry on Final Revised Medical Marijuana Rules

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:16-07:00 February 27th, 2012|General, Licensing|

As you know from earlier blog posts a judge ruled in a state case that had challenged our dispensary applicant selection criteria. The judge’s decision basically struck down several of the selection criteria we had been planning to use to for competitive areas of the state (areas where there will be more than 1 applicant [...]

Milk Research & Policy Change Cuts 7B Calories a Year in AZ

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:16-07:00 February 24th, 2012|General|

Congrats to our Women Infant & Children’s program who did some research and implemented some simple policy changes that reduced the consumption of 7 Billion calories annually in AZ. How? After we did a little research, we came up with a way to change our WIC policy... convincing people to replace whole milk with 1% or fat free milk (for [...]

Hospital Bloodstream Infection Rates Go Online

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:17-07:00 February 23rd, 2012|General, Prevention|

Bloodstream infections that start because of a “central line” in a person’s body are among the most serious of all healthcare-associated infections- causing thousands of deaths each year and about $700M in added costs. The CDC estimates that there were about 41,000 infections like these U.S. hospitals last year… and 25% percent of patients who [...]

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Arizona’s EMPOWER Program Gets Even More National Recognition

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:17-07:00 February 22nd, 2012|General|

Last week the Altarum Institute released a report highlighting Arizona as one of only 10 states to successfully integrate physical activity and nutrition criteria into Quality Rating and Improvement Systems for child care facilities. In Arizona, the quality rating system for child care is known as Quality First and is administered by First Things First. To [...]

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Biomedical Roadmap

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:18-07:00 February 21st, 2012|General|

A decade ago, AZ launched a plan to create an internationally competitive bioscience sector. This roadmap is the long-term plan to combine leaders in business, basic sciences & research, and political entities in order to create an infrastructure and climate that would be ideal to propel AZ forward in the biosciences. The Flinn Foundation invested in [...]

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Opening Day for AZ Gardening

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:18-07:00 February 17th, 2012|General|

The President’s Day 3-day weekend is a great time to start your vegetable garden in the Sonoran Desert, so get out your shovels, mulch, and other garden materials this weekend. But if you want to grow healthy vegetables in the desert- you’ll need to prep your soil before the quickly upcoming planting season. Here are [...]

100 Years (actually more) of the AZ State Hospital

By Will Humble| 2012-02-16T19:00:44-07:00 February 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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Enjoy AZ’s 100th B-day

By azdhs-admin| 2012-02-13T10:26:00-07:00 February 13th, 2012|General|

Please take some time to enjoy Arizona’s 100th birthday celebration this week. The Arizona Centennial Commission held Arizona Best Fest this past Saturday and Sunday. There’ll also be a host of events going on tomorro (AZ’s actual 100th Birthday) in the Capitol mall area- especially the area between the House and Senate buildings just across [...]

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