ADHS Awards New Behavioral Health Services Contracts
The mind and body aren’t separated – and neither should the healthcare delivery system – especially for folks with a serious mental illness. People with a serious mental illness die more than 25 years earlier than the general population…an unacceptable health disparity in anybody’s book. The increased mortality is largely from […]
Arizona Aces Latest CDC Public Health Preparedness Report Card
Every year the CDC evaluates each of the states on their public health preparedness performance. Arizona continued to score high marks on this year’s preparedness report card. We got a perfect score this year for biological laboratory testing, and we’ve kept our excellent performance measures for incident management, medical countermeasures, […]
What’s a CON, Anyway?
Arizona uses a Certificate of Necessity (CON) system to regulate ground ambulance service in Arizona – and to make sure that every place in the State has adequate emergency medical services, including the frontier parts of Arizona. The CON actually describes the geographic service area, level of service (advanced life support […]
The Certificate of Necessity (CON) “Pipeline”
American Medical Response’s (AMR) isn’t the only application in the pipeline. A number of fire departments along with private groups are applying for CONs right now. Some are farther along in the application process than others.
Why all the interest in running an ambulance company? Rural Metro’s bankruptcy has probably played a […]
Flu Season May Be a Hard One
We expect to see flu cases, hospitalizations, and even some deaths every year, but recent data from the CDC shows that this season may be a little different than the past few flu seasons. First, the flu strain causing the most cases so far this year is Influenza A (H3N2). […]
Vaccine Financing and Availability Advisory Committee Report
Childhood immunizations are widely credited as one of the top ten public health achievements of the 20th century. For the 13 diseases included on the current U.S. childhood immunization schedule, 20 million cases of disease are prevented per year, 42,000 lives are saved, and the healthcare system realizes $13.6 […]
