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2011 Department Priorities Spotlight- Public Health Prevention

By | December 28th, 2010|Behavioral Health, Prevention|

The name of the game for Public Health Prevention in 2011 is integration and leverage.  Our Public Health Prevention Team will be focusing on the social determinants of health and working to implement policies, systems and environmental changes that make the healthy choices easy.  Here are some examples of our public health prevention priorities for the [...]

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All Systems Go for Friday

By | December 10th, 2010|General|

Our preparation for the implementation of the AZ Medical Marijuana Act is on track.  We've made a great deal of progress on all fronts over the last couple of weeks.  The informal draft of the Administrative Code that we'll release next Friday is really starting to gel.  We've got the key elements hammered out and our [...]

Raise Your Voice Forums

By | November 30th, 2010|Behavioral Health|

Our Raise Your Voice Behavioral Health Forums are going quite well.  You’ll remember that our objective for the Forums is to help us transform our behavioral health system for the better.  Our behavioral health team has been traveling to most parts of the state to hold focus groups including 14 in Maricopa County and focus [...]

Behavioral Health Licensing Rule Change Suspended

By | November 22nd, 2010|Behavioral Health, Uncategorized|

A couple of weeks ago I planned to open the docket to overhaul the Administrative Code (Rules) that we use to evaluate and monitor health and safety in licensed behavioral health facilities in AZ. That plan was based on the assumption that the Medical Marijuana Act was going down to defeat because at that time [...]

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Raise Your Voice, Arizona!

By | November 12th, 2010|Behavioral Health|

If you or one of your family members receives behavioral health services in Arizona, it’s time to raise your voice and be heard.  Over the next few weeks our ADHS Behavioral Health System Transformation Team will be sponsoring a series of forums so that folks can express their opinions about how we should shape the [...]

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Post Election 203 Communications

By | November 2nd, 2010|General|

If Prop 203 passes today, we’ll definitely get flooded with phone calls from people that want information on how they can get a license to become a dispensary starting Wednesday.  There’s absolutely no way we could ever try to answer the inevitable questions over the phone.  Number 1, we won’t have full answers until at [...]

Licensing and the Arizona Ambulatory Surgery Center Association

By | October 21st, 2010|Licensing|

The Licensing Division, Office of Medical Facilities recently presented extensive technical assistance during the Arizona Ambulatory Surgery Center Association Fall Conference this month.  Staff from the Licensing Division including Tucson and Phoenix Surveyors as well as Life Safety Code Surveyors and State Architects provided information to about 180 participants.  Topics included the state of current [...]

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Hospital Potpourri

By | October 18th, 2010|Uncategorized|

The State Hospital folks have been very generous with their clothing donations to ICM as part of our SECC campaign.  In one week our Hospital folks donated a completely full pickup load of clothes etc. that went to ICM for distribution to needy folks.  Awesome job- thanks. I also had an opportunity to do a [...]

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SECC Campaign

By | September 3rd, 2010|General|

The annual State Employee Charitable Campaign starts this month and will run for 6 weeks.  Employees will get some additional information about this year’s campaign shortly, but I wanted to let you know about a special part of the campaign for ADHS this year.  I know that the furloughs and the unemployment situation (for your [...]

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Acting Shmackting

By | September 2nd, 2010|Behavioral Health, General, Preparedness|

I’m glad to announce that Rodgers Wilson, MD is our permanent Behavioral Health Medical Director. Dr. Wilson oversees the clinical/prevention and quality management/medical management areas of our behavioral health system.  He has spearheaded Quarterly Health Initiatives that address common physical health needs among individuals with behavioral health illnesses and is currently developing collaborative training programs [...]

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