Amid life’s challenges, most Arizonans (87%) report that the quality of their life and well-being is good to excellent, while 81% report that they enjoy good to excellent health. At the same time, about 719,000 adult Arizonans (15%) report being diagnosed with one or more of three types of mental disorders (bi-polar, anxiety, major depression), [...] Learn More →

The Arizona Bioethics Network (ABN), which was active in the 1990s, is being “re-launched” and reconfigured as a community of practice focused on ethical issues in health care related to practice, policy and education. If ever there was a time to gather people together to address critical issues in end-of-life care, medical futility, privacy, rationing, [...] Learn More →

Is in the works for community health centers as a result of the new federal health care reform legislation. Beginning in 2011, some $11 billion is earmarked over five years for new funding for community health centers, most of which is intended to help them expand their operations to serve nearly 20 million new patients [...] Learn More →

Recently the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association released a study calculating the economic impact of proposed massive cuts to AHCCCS (Medicaid) and the Arizona Department of Health Services. It’s devastating. We got here by spending too much money and not taking in enough revenue. We got here by letting the good times roll and not [...] Learn More →

Consider this: The iconic American family – married couple with children – will account for just 22% of households in 2010. The most prevalent type of household is a married couple with no kids, followed closely by single-person households. With families taking their children to pediatricians, and seniors increasingly seeking out specialists, what is the future patient base for the family practice physician? Learn More →

The Governor's budget proposal to eliminate Kidscare and save the state about $23 million by disenrolling almost 44,000 children. If you think hospitals, community clinics, nonprofit agencies and other providers of health and human services are at the edge now, just wait. It’s cost shifting on steroids. It’s unfair, ineffective and inefficient – and that’s just for starters. But the Governor is right about one thing. Learn More →