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What’s Community Paramedicine?
Community paramedicine is a paradigm shift for the use of paramedics in the US. It’s an emerging model in which paramedics function outside their usual emergency response & transport roles-...
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Hospital Associated Infection Report
The 5 most common hospital-acquired infections cost the U.S. health care system almost $10B a year, according to a new study by Harvard researchers. The study was published online in JAMA Internal...
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“No Place Like Home” Conference
In early 2012, Arizona set the ambitious goal of reducing the statewide hospital readmission rate by 20% and averting 4,000 avoidable hospital readmissions. Curious to find out what we accomplished by...
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Evaluating a Trauma System II
A couple of weeks ago, I introduced the concept of “Over Triage”… which is when EMS transports a patient to the highest level of care (like a level I trauma center) when they could have taken them to...
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No Place Like Home
Over the last 18 months, our licensing team in collaboration with trade organizations from every sphere of healthcare delivery, partnered with Health Services Advisory Group (HSAG), Arizona’s Medicare...
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Electronic Birth Certificate Rollout Going Smoothly
We rolled out a new electronic birth certificate system this week that will be a game-changer for public health. Our system (which took about 18 months to plan, create & launch) will help us...
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New Abortion Clinic Regulations Established
HB 2036 was passed and signed during the 2012 legislative session… tasking the ADHS with several things related to the regulation of abortions. Among them were requirements for us to: 1) Develop a...
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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...
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Major Regulatory Reform Milestone
Last week we passed a major milestone in our Strategic Plan when we filed our final new set of rules for the Arizona’s 5,500 licensed healthcare facilities. With this week’s filing – we’ve now...
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Information Sharing with Hospitals during Disasters
Recent events such as Hurricane Harvey have illustrated the importance of information sharing during a disaster response. Communication and coordination between first responders, health care...
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