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Arizona Department of Health Services explains licensing role and sober‑living rule changes
Summary
ADHS described how licensing and inspections work, said it has increased electronic processing and implemented new touchpoints for new facilities, and noted statutory changes expanding the sober‑living definition and compliance tools.
Tom Salo, assistant director for the Arizona Department of Health Services' Division of Licensing, briefed the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on how DHS licenses health care facilities, the department's inspection routines and recent statutory changes that affect sober living homes and behavioral health residential facilities.
"Everything that we do is in statute," Salo told the committee, and he outlined the department's authority and limits. He said DHS has roughly 270 employees, manages several hundred licensed behavioral health facilities of different types, and recently moved many licensing functions into an electronic licensing system to speed…
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