Licensing – Page 17 – 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.

Abortion Reporting

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:18-07:00 May 12th, 2010|Licensing|

The Legislature passed (and the Governor signed) a new law this past session that expands the number of reportable fields for abortion procedures that occur in Arizona. There are about 17 reportable fields and new reporting requirements for complications that occur as a result of the procedure. All of the data is confidential and there are no personally [...]

Tucson Women’s Clinic v. Eden

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:19-07:00 May 11th, 2010|Licensing|

Back in 1999, a law was passed and signed (ARS § 36-449.01 36-449.02 36-449.03) that required ADHS to license and inspect abortion providers if they provide 5 or more first-trimester abortions in a month or if they provide any 2nd or 3rd trimester abortions as an abortion clinic. Hospitals were exempted. The Tucson Women’s Clinic sued the ADHS director [...]

Clostridium difficile

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:19-07:00 April 28th, 2010|Licensing, Preparedness, Prevention|

The Maricopa County Department of Public Health has discovered a pretty significant outbreak of a bacteria called Clostridium difficile this week. This organism can cause severe diarrheal illness, and is commonly associated with antibiotic use and healthcare facilities. Most people who come into contact with Clostridium difficile do not develop disease. Being on long-term antibiotics [...]

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New Childcare Center Licensing Rules

By Will Humble| 2010-04-20T09:16:23-07:00 April 20th, 2010|Licensing|

Our child care licensing & rules team, along with a long list of Stakeholders, have been working very hard over the last few months to put together a new list of criteria for operating a child care center. This week, their hard work paid off- and we were able to post a draft of our [...]

Congrats Licensing Team

By Will Humble| 2010-04-08T08:23:59-07:00 April 8th, 2010|Licensing|

Our Licensing programs for medical and long-term care facilities have been nominated for a national award by the Region IX Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services office for our High-quality work in the area of Survey and Certification under difficult circumstances; Significant performance improvement in meeting the goals of the Medicare and Medicaid Survey &Certification [...]

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Breakfast & Lunch

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:20-07:00 April 5th, 2010|General, Licensing, Prevention|

The US Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, passed legislation out of their Committee to reauthorize WIC and the other Child Nutrition Programs last week. It’s called the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010. The bill http://ag.senate.gov/site/legislation.html includes the reauthorization of the free and reduced lunch and breakfast programs. I was in DC a couple [...]

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Breakfast & Lunch

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:21-07:00 April 5th, 2010|General, Licensing, Prevention|

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State-of-the-Art Online Complaint System

By Will Humble| 2017-02-10T09:52:22-07:00 March 23rd, 2010|Licensing|

Our Licensing & Operations Divisions went live with our new Online Complaint Form system. It took some old fashioned elbow grease and creativity to put together this new time saving application- that will allow our licensing folks to more efficiently take and track complaints- and to more efficiently get back with folks that file them. [...]

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