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Trace Levels of Iodine-131 found in AZ Milk

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:50-07:00 April 1st, 2011|General|

Last week I wrote about how Arizona Radiation Regulatory Agency (ARRA) instruments detected trace levels of Iodine-131 in AZ air from the troubled nuclear power plant in Japan. This week testing by ARRA and the AZ Dept. of Agriculture found trace levels of I-131 in the milk samples that they routinely monitor. The levels are of no [...]

Health Homes Planning Grant

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:51-07:00 March 31st, 2011|General|

Awhile back the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released preliminary guidance to state Medicaid agencies (AHCCCS) regarding a new federal funding opportunity to coordinate and integrate primary, acute, behavioral health, and long term supports for folks with chronic illnesses. The guidance encouraged state Medicaid agencies to work with partners to provide technical assistance for [...]

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Want a dispensary? Think Rural

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:51-07:00 March 28th, 2011|General|

One of our objectives as we developed the final set of Rules for Medical Marijuana was to ensure reliable access to medication in rural Arizona. That's why we built in some incentives to encourage folks to apply for one of the rural CHAAs. First, we made sure that inventory could be transferred between dispensaries (and [...]

Dispensary Zoning Issues

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:51-07:00 March 28th, 2011|General|

Many of the comments that we received at the public hearings were about how we'll evaluate and award the dispensary licenses. Many of the questions were about zoning, so here's a brief summary of how the zoning part will work: The final rules outline a 2-step process whereby applicants enter into a competitive screening in each Community Health Analysis Area [...]

Medical Marijuana Begins in About 2 Weeks

By azdhs-admin| 2011-03-28T08:07:42-07:00 March 28th, 2011|General|

We’ve published our final Rules for managing the upcoming Medical Marijuana Program in Arizona. We released the final rules and a series of fact sheets on our website first-thing this morning. The fact sheets are designed to help prospective qualified patients, designated caregivers, dispensary applicants and physicians understand the final set of rules (including dispensary application [...]

Final Medical Marijuana Rules will be Released Monday

By azdhs-admin| 2011-03-25T06:20:46-07:00 March 25th, 2011|General|

We’re finished making our policy decisions regarding the final medical marijuana rules, and our rules team will be spending Friday and probably part of the weekend crossing the T’s and dotting the I’s on the final medical marijuana rules. We’ll be releasing them on our website first-thing on Monday morning. We’ll also be having a [...]

New National Public Health Indicator Tool

By azdhs-admin| 2011-03-24T07:27:40-07:00 March 24th, 2011|General, Preparedness, Prevention|

HHS launched a new web portal providing important health and health care indicator data. The Health Indicators Warehouse represents a vast collection of health and health care indicators like determinants of health, health care access, cost, quality, and use. Health indicator can be searched for specific populations, places, political jurisdictions, and geographic areas. The Warehouse [...]

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MY Fest 4

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:51-07:00 March 23rd, 2011|Behavioral Health, General|

The 4th Annual MY Fest is scheduled for Saturday, April 23, 2011 from 11 am to 4 pm. This exciting event has once again been planned and produced by members of Magellan Youth Leaders Inspiring Future Empowerment (MY LIFE) Arizona. The MY Fest youth festival will be at the Tempe Beach Park again this year and [...]

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Trace Levels of Iodine- 131 from Japan Detected in AZ

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:51-07:00 March 22nd, 2011|General|

As I mentioned in my blog last Friday computer models developed by the international community and the federal government suggested that very low levels of radiation were crossing the Pacific Ocean late last week and that there could be very small increases in natural radiation in North America including Arizona this week. All the models [...]

Japanese Radiological Emergency

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:52-07:00 March 18th, 2011|General, Preparedness|

All of us are exposed to natural radiation on a daily basis. It mostly comes from space (called cosmic rays) as well as natural radioactive materials found in the soil, water and air. People can also be exposed to radiation from human-made sources like X-ray machines. Radiation doses are usually measured in units called milli-Sieverts. On [...]

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