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Better Together:
Arizona's Hospitals Advocate for Patients

The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) is a statewide trade association representing over 100 hospitals, healthcare systems, affiliated health organizations, and the patients and communities they serve. With a mission of sustaining and improving the health of Arizonans, AzHHA supports its members by providing advocacy, education and services.

Program challenges people to become more active dcourier.com | 8/26/2010
People are encouraged to participate in a free program starting this September that challenges them to become more physically active. The Arizona Take Charge Challenge is a 12-week physical activity program that motivates individuals to become more active in their daily life, said Leslie Horton, spokeswoman for Yavapai County Community Health Services. It runs Sept. 12 through Dec. 4. To tak...
West Nile kills horse in Navajo County wmicentral.com | 8/26/2010
The Navajo County Public Health Services District has reported an equine case of West Nile virus in Navajo County. A horse was reported dead on Aug. 13. * Milton DeSpain, DMV, of Cedar Ridge Veterinary of Snowflake, says lab reports from the University of Arizona Veterinary lab indicated that the horse had West Nile Virus. This case provides an indication that there is West Nile virus prese...
Six West Nile cases reported in Pinal Arizona City Independent | 8/26/2010
As of Friday, six cases of West Nile virus had been reported in Pinal County this year, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.No one in the county has died from the virus. Maricopa County has reported 48 cases of West Nile virus, for a statewide total of 54 cases this year to date, according to the ADHS website.According to a county press release, in all of 2009,...
Glendale, Peoria set sights on landing research ce... Phoenix AZ Central | 8/26/2010
Glendale and Peoria are increasing efforts to attract medical research facilities to the West Valley. Peoria is working with the Translational Genomics Research Institute of Phoenix, or TGen, to build an international bioscience consortium, while Glendale has plans in the pipeline. Glendale already possesses a strong base of health-care companies and educational campuses that would support a m...
Ariz. consumers likely safe; check egg cartons anyway Tucson Arizona Daily Star | 8/26/2010
An egg recall from an Iowa producer is not believed to have reached retail stores in Arizona, but state officials say consumers should be checking their cartons anyway. Investigations into the recalled eggs, linked to a salmonella outbreak, are not yet complete, said Joli Weiss, food-borne disease epidemiologist for the Arizona Department of Health Services. The eggs recalled from Wright C...
Health forum about Proposition 106 in Tucson today Tucson Arizona Daily Star | 8/26/2010
Arizonans for Health Care Freedom will hold a townhall event about Proposition 106 today — Thursday. Aug. 26. Prop. 106, which will be on November's election ballot, would add a section to the state constitution barring any law that compels individuals to participate in any specific health-care program. So in 2014 when national health reform kicks in, Arizonans would not have to pay federa...
In South Africa, doctors and activists worry about... Minneapolis Star Tribune | 8/26/2010
JOHANNESBURG - Doctors and activists say AIDS patients aren't getting treated because of a nationwide civil service strike in South Africa, the country with the most people infected with the virus that causes AIDS. Dr. Ashraf Coovadia said Wednesday his HIV and AIDS clinic at a Johannesburg hospital usually sees 60 to 80 patients daily, but that has dropped to 20 to 30 since the strike began...
Healthcare law backers plan counteroffensive Los Angeles Times | 8/26/2010
After months of being pummeled by Republican attacks on the new healthcare law, the Obama administration and its allies are striking back in an attempt to stem public disaffection with the health overhaul ahead of the November election. A nationwide, multimillion-dollar ad offensive — organized in consultation with the White House and funded by sympathetic groups and wealthy individual...
Best way to care for terminally ill stirs debate St. Louis Post-Dispatch | 8/26/2010
Legislators have begun to recognize the medical, humanitarian and economic value of helping terminally ill patients and their families navigate treatment options as they approach the end of life. Last week, over the objections of New York State's medical society, Gov. David A. Paterson signed into law the New York Palliative Care Information Act that requires physicians who treat patient...
Healthcare Thursday The Hill | 8/26/2010
Stem cells on the docket when Congress returns? So says Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), a member of the Energy and Commerce panel and a vocal supporter of expanding embryonic stem cell research. A federal judge this week blocked President Obama's efforts to expand federal funding for such research, leading DeGette to call for legislation overturning that decision. "This is going to have to be addre...

Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association Announces New president
AND ceo

The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) Board of Directors announced that it has named Laurie Liles as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, following an extensive national search. Liles, who now leads AzHHA’s legislative and regulatory advocacy team, will begin her new role on September 7.
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ARIZONA HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION HAS MOVED!

The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) has moved to new office space not far from its previous location at the intersection of Central Avenue and Thomas Road in Phoenix. AzHHA's new address is 2800 N. Central Avenue, Suite 1450, Phoenix, Arizona 85004.

ARIZONA HOSPITAL AND HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES NEW VICE PRESIDENT OF ADVOCACY

The Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association (AzHHA) has named Debbie Johnston as Vice President of Advocacy. Currently the Director of Regulatory Advocacy, Johnston will step into her new role on September 7.
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PHOENIX VA health CARE SYSTEM


The Phoenix VA Health Care System offers high quality health care services to our nation’s Veterans.  We are classified as a referral 1b facility, and offer both inpatient and outpatient services.  We have 129 Inpatient Medical-Surgical beds, 104 Community Living Center beds, 48 Mental Health beds, and 20 beds in the community for Substance Abuse and Alcohol Treatment Programs.

We are a teaching hospital that supports resident training in medicine, surgery, psychiatry and radiology as well as nursing students, social work students, dietary students and other allied health trainees.   Since learning and patient care are intertwined, teaching hospitals often provide better medical care.  We have more than 191 teaching agreements and affiliations with 151 academic institutions.  Each year, more than 700 physicians, nurse and health care professionals receive training at the Phoenix VA Health Care System.

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