First Ever Tribal and Urban Indian Diabetes Program Meetings Held
Our Arizona Diabetes Program hosted a first of its kind Tribal and Urban Indian Diabetes Programs meeting on June 10th. This meeting allowed our Diabetes Program and tribal partners to identify opportunities for partnership while assessing the current diabetes health infrastructure among tribal entities. It is the Arizona Diabetes […]
National Hepatitis Testing Day was a Success in AZ!
May was Hepatitis Awareness Month and our staff worked with several partners to promote awareness about hepatitis and hold testing events during the week of National Hepatitis Testing Day. The work paid off with our partners hosting 13 sites in Arizona, only one state in the country hosted more.
More than 200 people were tested […]
Smoke-Free Arizona Turns Eight
On November 7, 2006, Arizona voters approved Proposition 201, the Smoke-Free Arizona Act. The Act went into effect on May 1, 2007, and prohibited smoking inside and within 20 feet of entrances, open windows, and ventilation systems of most enclosed public places and places of employment in Arizona.
Our Smoke-Free Arizona […]
New Trauma Centers in Tuba City and Sierra Vista Help to Fill Gaps
Tuba City Regional Medical Center and Canyon Vista Medical Center recently achieved designation as level III trauma centers. From a trauma system perspective, adding these two facilities to the list of level III trauma centers addresses two important realities about trauma. First, the majority of injured patients (88%) […]
Statewide Advisory Group Seeking New Members
The newly formed HIV Statewide Advisory Group (SWAG) is recruiting up to 12 new members to represent people living with HIV, those affected by the disease, and HIV care and social service providers statewide.
The SWAG is charged with providing planning and guidance for the delivery of services funded by the […]
