Arizona’s Paramedic Training: Excellent Results
Arizona’s Paramedic training programs are taught by a combination of colleges, private training centers, and fire departments. A typical Paramedic course is over 1,000 hours of class room, hospital and ambulance time covering anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, pharmacology, terminology, and hours and hours of assessment and proficiency tests on a multitude […]
ADHS: A Gold Fit Friendly Worksite
Each year the American Heart Association recognizes employers who go above and beyond when it comes to their employees’ health…and we were recognized as a Gold Fit-Friendly Worksite for 2014. We’re among an elite group of nationally-recognized awardees for our efforts to promote a healthy workplace. As a Gold […]
Statewide Heroin Broadcast This Week
Every broadcast TV station and most radio outlets across Arizona will air simultaneously a 30-minute commercial-free investigative report produced by ASU student journalists on the growing perils of heroin and opioid use on Tuesday, January 13, at 6:30 pm. You may remember a similar broadcast a few years ago about […]
Staying in the Saddle
We’ve had a great run together since I accepted the Interim ADHS Director position 6 years ago. I’m grateful to all of you for trusting me in this important position and for working together for the benefit of the folks of Arizona. We’ve made tremendous progress toward our Vision […]
State Health Assessment & Arizona Health Improvement Plan
To better understand the health status of Arizona’s population, we partnered with the county health departments to conduct Community Health Assessments in 2014. We used the Community Health Assessments to develop a comprehensive State Health Assessment, which became basis for putting together an Arizona Health Improvement Plan (AzHIP).
We […]
Newborn Screening Turn-Around Times
When a reporter from Wisconsin wrote a story about newborn screening turn-around times around the country in December of 2013, we found out that we had room for improvement when it comes to the time it takes newborn metabolic screening samples to get from Arizona hospitals to our Lab. Basically, it […]
