Arizona Department of Health Services, Director’s Blog

Arizona’s First Ever State Health Assessment

Today we published Arizona’s first ever comprehensive State Health Assessment. The objective of the State Health Assessment is to give Arizona’s public health and health care systems a clear tool to help drive future decision-making and resource allocation as we collectively design and implement evidence-based interventions to […]

By | February 13th, 2014|General|Comments Off on Arizona’s First Ever State Health Assessment

ASH Recheck

Last week we had a visit from CMS (Medicare) to check on our plan of correction from a Survey that was conducted last fall at the Civil Units.  Although we won’t get a final report for a while…  we do know that Team ASH did a great job during […]

By | February 13th, 2014|Behavioral Health|1 Comment

Community Paramedicine Workshops Scheduled

On previous Blogs I’ve shared information about Community Integrated Paramedicine.  One of the most promising opportunities for Community Paramedicine is in working with hospitals to prevent readmission of patients with diseases like diabetes, asthma or congestive heart failure.  It’s also a great opportunity for EMS providers […]

By | February 12th, 2014|Prevention|Comments Off on Community Paramedicine Workshops Scheduled

Food for the Olympians

As the Olympics begin, Chef and Registered Dietitian Allen Tran’s words come to mind, “nutrition can make a good athlete great or a great athlete good”. I think his view holds some truth for all of us. Allen knows because he is the High-Performance Chef for the U.S. Ski and […]

By | February 7th, 2014|General|8 Comments