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DHS describes licensing changes, new sober-living definition and inspection practices
Summary
The Department of Health Services told legislators it expanded licensing tools, moved to electronic licensing and revised the legal definition of sober-living homes; DHS said it focuses on health-and-safety oversight, not billing, and pointed to AZ CareCheck as a public transparency tool.
Tom Salo, assistant director in the Arizona Department of Health Services'division of licensing, told the committee that DHS has strengthened licensing tools and is moving more regulatory activities online to speed application processing and increase transparency.
Salo said DHS now manages about 132,000 individual licensees and roughly 21,000 facilities and operates with a headcount of roughly 270 staff. He described a recent move to electronic licensing that reduced average application-processing times and introduced…
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