The purpose of the Oral Health Quality Improvement Project (QIP) is to increase the rate of annual dental visits among AHCCCS members younger than 21, in order to make more progress toward AHCCCS and national “Healthy People 2010” goals. Using the following methodology, AHCCCS will establish a baseline measure of annual dental visits overall and by Contractor from which to measure improvement. This quality improvement project will focus on developing or improving interventions to help address factors that contribute to low utilization of dental services. In addition, this project addresses the AHCCCS requirement that acute and long-term care Contractors conduct Quality Improvement Projects. The baseline measurement period will be October 1, 2001, through September 30, 2002
This report includes Performance Indicators for preventive health care services provided to selected adults and adolescents enrolled with AHCCCS-contracted, acute-care health plans (Contractors). The four indicators are:
• Breast cancer screening
• Cervical cancer screening
• Adolescent well-care visits
• Adults’ access to preventive/ambulatory services
This report includes data for the period from October 1, 2000, through September 30, 2001 (and may include one or two previous years, depending on the indicator methodology). Results of the four indicators are reported in aggregate by Maricopa, Pima and combined rural counties, and by individual Contractors.
As part of a State initiative to develop a plan for providing Arizonans with affordable, accessible health insurance, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System Administration undertook a qualitative data gathering effort to better understand the issues faced by rural practitioners and to ensure the implementation of effective strategies for enhancing the rural provider network. This study involving key stakeholder interviews was propelled by the recognition that any efforts to enhance the availability of coverage would be ineffectual if improvements were not made to the rural health care infrastructure including increasing the accessibility to health care providers.
As a subset of the larger rural provider interview project, the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment Administration interviewed a small group of rural employers and employee benefit specialists who were considered to be major purchasers of health care in their rural communities. The project goals were to gain 1) a better understanding of the strategies used by these employers to ensure accessible and affordable coverage for their employees as well as themselves and 2) an insight as to the barriers these purchasers faced in providing health care to their employees.
This survey, part of the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems program, was sponsored by the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System. The purpose of this survey was to determine members’ ratings of and experiences with the medical care they received.
On a biennial basis, the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission is tasked with preparing for the governor a criminal justice system trends report. Available resources, the size and complexity of the criminal justice system and the availability of relevant data influence the scope of the issues addressed in the report. In support of data-driven decision making, this report uses publicly available data to describe the activity of Arizona’s criminal justice system from law enforcement agencies description of the offenses reported to their agencies to the population of the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Directory of law enforcement agencies and courts in Arizona.
Arizona’s Annual Report on activities carried out under the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Grant program for each fiscal year ending September 30. In Arizona, federal Residential Substance Abuse Treatment funds are used to help the state and local governments improve residential substance abuse treatment programs within the state and local correctional and detention facilities. Residential treatment provides care 24 hours per day, in correctional settings, using the therapeutic community and cognitive-behavioral therapy models.
House Bill 2554 appropriated $3 million from the state general fund in fiscal year 2007 to the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission for distribution to each county board of supervisors for “…increased methamphetamine interdiction efforts including investigation, training, prosecution, abuse treatment, or education programs.” By statute, each county that receives funds was required to submit quarterly reports to ACJC regarding the use and effectiveness of its award. The forms requested information on the type of program(s) developed, a description of the performance measures used to document the effectiveness of these funds, and the activity of each funded program. These reports provides a brief summary of activity of the two-year Methamphetamine Interdiction Fund project. They provide a summary of the reports submitted by each county.
This report describes the results of a process and impact evaluation of the Kino Coalition Weed and Seed site in Tucson, Arizona. The evaluation was conducted from February through June of 2006, and covered the first four years of Kino’s existence as an accepted site.