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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.

Remembering Alan

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:12-07:00 April 26th, 2012|Licensing, Uncategorized|

Alan Oppenheim was an excellent leader and manager- but much more importantly- he was a really good person. He always cared about others and asked lots of questions about what was going on. He was a team player- he had everybody’s and the team’s best interests in mind… and was wholeheartedly committed to our mission [...]

Empower Program Gets National Recognition

By Will Humble| 2012-04-06T08:19:48-07:00 April 6th, 2012|Licensing, Prevention|

Our Physical Activity and Nutrition and Child Care Licensing programs were selected for a national award from Let’s Move!- Child Care for our outstanding work to promote young children’s health and prevent childhood obesity through the Empower program and our training videos. Our work will be showcased at the May 9 Let’s Move! Child Care [...]

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Behavioral Health Licensing Regulatory Reform

By Will Humble| 2012-03-30T15:43:16-07:00 March 30th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

The behavioral health system transformation that we’re working on as part of the Maricopa County behavioral health services contract will go a long way toward better integrating primary and acute care and behavioral healthcare for folks with a serious mental illness. But… our success is also dependent on our regulatory reform within our Licensing shop. In fact, [...]

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Midwifery & the Democratic Process

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00 March 28th, 2012|Licensing|

Here's a short story about using the democratic process to get things done. Some of you might remember a protest last December in front of our 150 Building. About 100 folks or so were carrying placards in front of our building asking us to make it easier to have a home-birth in AZ. Many of you probably [...]

Our Arizona State Hospital’s “Culture of Care”

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:51:14-07:00 March 26th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

We’ve had plans to change how we think about security at the Hospital for the last several months. Our careful planning and organizing is paying off- as we’ve implemented many of our plans already and are turning the key on other reforms in the coming weeks and months. It’s definitely been a busy place at [...]

Licensing Does Whatever it Takes

By Will Humble| 2012-03-20T08:35:01-07:00 March 20th, 2012|Licensing|

The opening of a new hospital last week in Florence was anything but usual for folks in our Licensing Division. Since the hospital will also take care of prisoners, the staff had to work closely on the floor plan to make sure it met both medical and security needs. The hospital had to be able [...]

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AZ Kicks off the “No Place Like Home” Campaign

By Will Humble| 2012-03-16T09:06:02-07:00 March 16th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

Kathy McCanna, Alan Oppenheim, and Connie Belden (from Licensing) and Kristy Benton (from Behavioral Health) recently jumped head-first into a new Arizona health-care initiative called No Place Like Home which is Arizona’s approach to the Partnership for Patients: Better Care, Lower Costs project. The project aims to prevent hospital-acquired conditions and hospital re-admissions. The name [...]

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 [...]

Recovery Through Whole Health RFI

By azdhs-admin| 2012-03-20T07:36:42-07:00 February 9th, 2012|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

We’ll be having a “Request For Information” session regarding our “ Recovery Through Whole Health, the Regional Behavioral Health Authority with Health Homes” project (a.k.a. the upcoming Request for Proposal for behavioral health services in Maricopa County) on March 21 from 1- 5 pm at the Radisson City Center at 3600 N. 2nd Ave. in Phoenix. We’ll [...]

Medical Marijuana Dispensary Update

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:20-07:00 January 19th, 2012|Licensing, Preparedness|

With the recent ruling in Maricopa Superior Court, ADHS is analyzing the best way to responsibly begin accepting applications for medical marijuana dispensaries. Last week, the Governor instructed ADHS to proceed with the dispensary portion of the AMMA. One of the stumbling blocks was the pending Compassion First vs. Arizona case, which challenged some [...]

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