Administrative Judge Recommends Approving New Ambulance Service Application
Late Monday, an Administrative Law Judge issued an Order recommending that I approve American Medical Response of Maricopa’s (AMR) application to operate ambulances (certificate of necessity or CON) in all of Maricopa County.
We regulate ambulance services differently than most states. In order to operate an ambulance here the applicant […]
Community Paramedicine Legal Analysis Report
Community Integrated Paramedicine programs are coming together in two primary business models in Arizona. The first one has EMS (emergency medical services) agencies partnering with hospitals to reduce the frequency that patients are re-admitted to hospitals. In the second, EMS agencies are cultivating social service referrals to reduce the frequency that […]
U of A Health Network Steps Up
The University of Arizona Health Network joined the Maricopa Integrated Health System last week by committing to become an Infectious Disease Treatment Center of Excellence. By recognizing MIHS and UAHN as Infectious Disease Treatment Centers of Excellence, Arizona will be better able to: 1) develop a seamless […]
2013 Arizona Health Status and Vital Statistics Report
Last week we published our Agency’s most popular annual report. It’s called the 2013 Arizona Health Status and Vital Statistics Report. Last year’s version got 2,000,000 hits!
It gives our most granular public health information of the year including refined health statistics on pregnancies, births, reportable diseases, deaths, inpatient hospitalizations, […]
Reflections on Global Polio Eradication
For the last several years global public health has been coming down the home-stretch to eradicate Polio from the globe – making it the 3rd infectious disease to be eliminated – joining smallpox and rinderpest. Polio incidence has dropped 99% in the last 20 years…going from 350,000 cases in […]