Healthcare for Rural Arizona: One Solution to the Growing Transportation Crisis Canyonlands Healthcare provides vital services to ten centers in seven rural Arizona communities. Without our facilities, many residents in Northern and Southeastern Arizona would have to travel long distances to receive healthcare. As America’s baby boomers are hitting 65 at a rate of 10,000 a…
Well Woman HealthCheck The Well Woman HealthCheck program helps low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women gain access to breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services. The Well Woman HealthCheck Program (WWHP) is administered by the Arizona Department of Health Services and has been providing women with mammograms, clinical breast exams and pap testing since October 1995.…
Upcoming Medicaid (AHCCCS) Change Requires Member Response Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) is Arizona’s Medicaid agency that offers health care programs to serve Arizona residents. On October 1, 2018, an estimated 300,000 AHCCCS members will be transitioned to the new AHCCCS Complete Care (ACC) system. By making this change, patients will have physical…
Wash Hands Often: Here's Why May 5 is World Hand Hygiene Awareness Day Practicing hand hygiene is a simple yet effective way to prevent infections. Cleaning your hands can prevent the spread of germs, including those that are resistant to antibiotics and are becoming difficult, if not impossible, to treat. When should you wash your…
Receive an Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Donations Made to Canyonlands Healthcare are Eligible for an Arizona Charitable Tax Credit. Give now and receive a dollar-for-dollar Arizona Charitable Tax Credit Help us provide rural healthcare to Arizona communities. Donations make it possible for us to provide integrated, affordable, and quality healthcare to our patients regardless of…
Canyonlands Healthcare Providing Vaccines for Pertussis (Whooping Cough) Symptoms Early symptoms of pertussis are like getting a cold, including runny nose, sneezing and coughing that becomes more persistent. Pertussis is easily spread when an infected person coughs. Children often make a “whooping” noise when they breathe. This disease is most serious for babies under one…
These Arizona Insurers not Raising ACA Rates in 2018 Despite Subsidy Cut Two insurers selling plans on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace in Arizona will not raise their rates for next year, despite President Donald Trump’s decision to cut off key subsidies. Neither Blue Cross Blue Shield nor Health Net intend to redo the rates they filed…
Drug Related Deaths are 45% higher in Rural Communities – HRSA Report The Health Resources and Services Administration recently awarded $3 million to rural communities in eight states to reduce opioid overdoses. Nisha Patel, with the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy at the Health Resources and Services Administration, says drug related deaths are 45%…
Medicare and Medicaid Spending Lower for Patients Receiving Community Health Care Patients come to community health centers because they provide a variety of services under one roof, from behavior services to nutrition counseling to women’s health care. That makes it convenient for patients to access care. According to the National Association of Community Health Centers…
DACA Reversal Risks Medical Workforce”One out of four doctors practicing today is an international medical graduate and many of those have DACA status. Eliminating DACA protections will not only make the shortages worse, it will also hit rural and underserved areas hard and those are places that DACA physicians are likely to work.” — AMA CEO…