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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 Debilitating Medical Condition Applications

By azdhs-admin| 2012-01-17T06:38:37-07:00 January 17th, 2012|Licensing, Preparedness|

The Arizona Medical Marijuana Act (36-2801.01) directs us to accept and review applications to add new debilitating medical conditions that qualify folks to hold patient registration cards. We outlined the requirements and review procedures in the Rules we adopted (R9-17-106)- which say that we’ll accept applications every January and July. We’re planning to accept applications during the last [...]

Dogs and Residents

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:21-07:00 January 10th, 2012|Licensing|

The father of a person living in one of our licensed behavioral health residential facilities phoned in an after-hours complaint to our behavioral health licensing team on the Friday before Christmas Eve. Little did our team leader Bill McCarroll know when he answered the phone that he would hear graphic details of a brutal pit-bull attack- and he [...]

Web-Based EMT Certification Coming Soon

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:23-07:00 December 21st, 2011|General, Licensing|

As our IT team was developing the electronic medical marijuana application tool they started seeing that the code they were writing had potential uses in other parts of the agency. In other words- that the basics of the Code could be used to electronify some of our other business lines. We looked for areas that consumed [...]

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Home Birth Protest

By azdhs-admin| 2011-12-06T08:14:45-07:00 December 6th, 2011|General, Licensing|

Those of you that were working at our downtown campus last Wednesday afternoon may have seen the 100 or so folks carrying placards in front of our 150 Building. They were asking us to make it easier to have a home-birth in AZ. How can we do that, you ask? Many of you probably didn’t [...]

AZ Carecheck

By azdhs-admin| 2011-11-14T08:27:34-07:00 November 14th, 2011|General, Licensing|

It’s been a while since I mentioned to you that our Division of Licensing has a really good web site called AZ Care Check. Our website provides a 3 year history of survey results, complaint investigation results and if any of our licensed facilities (nursing homes, assisted living, hospital and other medical facilities, childcare or [...]

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Turning a Bad Survey into a Learning Opportunity

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:31-07:00 October 20th, 2011|Licensing|

Those of you in Licensing have heard me talk about the difference between compliance and enforcement more than once, but it's been awhile since I've written about the subject. Some people are confused about the distinction I always make between compliance and enforcement. They are 2 very different things. Compliance (as it relates to our licensees) [...]

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Child Care Readiness

By azdhs-admin| 2011-10-12T08:26:51-07:00 October 12th, 2011|Licensing|

Ever since 911, there’s been an increased understanding that a strong disaster emergency and evacuation plan is required for any line of business. Child care is no exception. Over the last few months, our Child Care Licensing shop took the lead to develop and provide information and training to Arizona child care providers in effective short- and [...]

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Turning the Key on New Child Care Home Rules

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:32-07:00 October 5th, 2011|Licensing|

We turned the key last week on our new rules for child care homes (child care homes provide “pay” child care between 5 and 10 kids). The new rules officially went into effect on September 30. We crafted the new rules to go hand in hand with SB 1315, which outlines the standards for child [...]

A Look in the Mirror

By azdhs-admin| 2011-09-15T08:51:56-07:00 September 15th, 2011|Licensing|

Many folks don’t know that our Licensing division undergoes a periodic audit (survey) to look at compliance to our Federal contract with the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS). This past week, 3 surveyors from the regional office of CMS came to review our Long Term Care and Medical Facilities areas. This survey centered on [...]

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The ABC’s of Medicare

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:35-07:00 August 29th, 2011|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

By now you know all about our goal of improving integration of care for individuals with a serious mental illness. In looking more closely at this population, we noticed that about 50% of folks with a serious mental illness who are enrolled with Medicaid (AHCCCS) are also enrolled in Medicare… meaning that they’re “dual eligible.” [...]

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