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Items in this category apply to the ADHS Licensing Division. ADHS is required to license medical, long term care and behavioral health treatment facilities. ADHS also licenses Child Care Facilities and Homes, as well as a few special professions. ADHS licenses emergency medical personnel as well, but that is through Preparedness.

New “Empower” Standards Here

By Will Humble| 2012-11-27T08:26:29-07:00 November 27th, 2012|Licensing|

It is hard to believe we’re in the 3rd year of our successful Empower Program. As a refresher for those of you that aren’t familiar with Empower, it’s a program that focuses on increasing healthy eating and active living, along with helping to provide smoke-free environments, in licensed child care facilities… reaching over 200,000 children [...]

Evidence-Based Decision-Making: A Key Regulatory Benchmark

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:51-07:00 November 19th, 2012|Licensing|

The role of a surveyor can be a difficult one. Our team of licensing surveyors need to maintain neutrality as regulators and be able to apply the Arizona Administrative Code (otherwise known as “the rules”) to a wide variety of facilities within the healthcare system. Part of our surveillance includes investigating complaints- which can be generated from [...]

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Rules Rollin’ Along

By Will Humble| 2012-09-26T08:32:39-07:00 September 26th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

Our regulatory reform effort in Licensing is rolling along. We’ve already held rules work group meetings with representatives from behavioral health inpatient and residential facilities and are incorporating the Stakeholder comments into our next iteration of our draft rules. In November, we’ll start holding rules work group meetings with representatives from behavioral health outpatient settings. This’ll truly [...]

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Working Together

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:50:59-07:00 September 24th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

I've written many times about how important it is that we work with our partners to protect the health and safety of the people of Arizona. It’s our responsibility to take advantage of opportunities to teach and practice what we preach. It’s nice when someone outside acknowledges when someone goes above and beyond which is [...]

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Dispensary Drawing Procedures Report Published

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:01-07:00 August 31st, 2012|General, Licensing|

We carefully planned our processes for randomly selecting medical marijuana registration certificates in competitive districts to make sure the process was fair and transparent. Part of our planning included contracting with Henry & Horne, LLP to independently observe the entire process. The contract included a requirement to develop a final report documenting their observations. The [...]

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Introducing Our New Licensing Director & Agency CMO

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:03-07:00 August 22nd, 2012|Licensing|

Please join me in welcoming Cara Christ, MD as our new Division of Licensing Services chief. Cara has agreed to share her talents as the new Assistant Director for Licensing as well as serving as the Agency Chief Medical Officer. Also, thanks a million to Colby Bower who's been doing an excellent job serving as interim director for licensing since Alan [...]

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Registration Certificate Selection Tuesday

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:05-07:00 August 3rd, 2012|General, Licensing|

Next Tuesday (August 7) is "Selection Tuesday" for our medical marijuana dispensary applicants. By the end of the day, we’ll have whittled the initial pool of 486 medical marijuana dispensary applications down to 99. We won’t be allocating the full allotment of 126 Registration Certificates on Tuesday because 27 of our Community Health Analysis Areas [...]

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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Interim AD for Licensing

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:11-07:00 May 10th, 2012|General, Licensing|

Colby Bower will serve as our Interim Assistant Director for Licensing while we recruit and hire a permanent Assistant Director. Colby has been serving as our Legislative Affairs chief for the last couple of years. Colby fills several of the criteria that we needed for the interim post: 1) He’s a good risk manager and [...]

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ADHS Looking for a Forward-thinking Assistant Director

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00 May 8th, 2012|Licensing|

“Promoting Health and Wellness for all Arizonans" is the motto of the Arizona Department of Health Services. We promote and protect the health of Arizona's children and adults and set the standard for personal and community health through direct care, science, public policy and leadership. Want a piece of the action? We’re looking for an [...]

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