Licensing – Page 15 – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

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.

Building Healthy Chefs @ AZ Pre-schools

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:53-07:00 March 11th, 2011|Licensing, Prevention|

Our Bureau of Nutrition and Physical Activity just completed a series of free cooking-based nutrition trainings for childcare providers in Arizona. The Cooking Matters curriculum from Share our Strength, as part of the Wal-Mart Foundation Health Initiatives, gives childcare providers the opportunity to learn how to prepare healthy meals and snacks on a limited budget and [...]

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Assisted Living Technical Assistance

By azdhs-admin| 2011-03-08T08:25:38-07:00 March 8th, 2011|Licensing|

Our Assisted Living Licensing Office is working hard to get the message out about important (and exciting) changes taking place in the program, like our new Online Renewal System. Representatives from the Office are meeting with the Arizona Board of Examiners of Nursing Care Institution Administrators and Assisted Living Facility Managers, the Long Term Care [...]

Regulatory Relief in a Public Health Emergency

By azdhs-admin| 2011-02-17T14:36:07-07:00 February 17th, 2011|Licensing|

I often write about the benefits and leverage we can achieve for our public health goals by partnering with external organizations and Stakeholders, but sometimes the collaborative initiatives are with ourself. Our Medical Facility Licensing and Emergency Preparedness teams have been working with our licensed facilities to figure out what they’d need in terms of [...]

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Good work Assisted Living Team

By azdhs-admin| 2011-02-11T12:02:43-07:00 February 11th, 2011|Licensing|

We’ve made a strong effort in the past couple years to make sure that we are doing our best to protect the health and safety of people in our licensed facilities. Whenever possible, we work to help those facilities come into compliance with our rules, but sometimes we have no choice but to drop the [...]

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Childcare Facilities Efficiency Report

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:57-07:00 February 10th, 2011|Licensing|

Those of you that were working here in 2009 (or even if you weren’t) probably remember all of the angst and unrest that occurred when we increased our licensing fees for child care facilities (for the first time in over 20 years). The goal was to have licensing fee revenues cover the actual costs incurred [...]

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Next Fiscal Year’s Budget Series – pt 2

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:51:59-07:00 January 25th, 2011|Behavioral Health, General, Licensing|

On January 15, 2011, the Governor released her proposed budget for next fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2011. Our part of the budget in the link above is on pages 105 through 111. You kinda need to be a budgeteer to understand some of it, so I’ll try to distill it down a little [...]

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Compliance v. Enforcement

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:52:01-07:00 December 8th, 2010|Licensing|

Those of you in Licensing have heard me talk about the difference between compliance and enforcement more than once, but I’ve never written about it. 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) means that a [...]

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2011 Department Priorities Spotlight- Assurance & Licensing Services

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:52:01-07:00 December 7th, 2010|Behavioral Health, Licensing|

I thought I’d do a piece each week between now and the end of the year that outlines our goals for the coming year. I’ll start with Licensing this week… We’ll continue on our quest to make the most of our time and effort during our surveys. We’re already doing a good job now, but as [...]

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Check Out Our New Empower Training Videos

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:52:03-07:00 November 15th, 2010|Licensing, Prevention|

Our collaborative team of professionals from WIC, Maternal & Child Health, the Office of Children with Special Healthcare Needs and our Office of Childcare Licensure just finished and posted 4 dynamite videos to help our AZ Childcare Centers and Homes to adopt our Empower Pack wellness program. The videos range from about 7 to 9 [...]

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Abortion Clinics Finally Licensed

By azdhs-admin| 2017-02-10T09:52:03-07:00 November 10th, 2010|Licensing|

In 1999 a bill was passed that charged the ADHS with licensing and inspecting abortion clinics. Before the law could take effect, a lawsuit was filed that “stayed” the regulation of abortion clinics until a settlement agreement could be finalized with the Department and the plaintiffs. Last year the settlement agreement was finalized, we developed [...]

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