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t’s election season again in Southern Arizona! Although, I suppose it’s always an election year in Tucson since Tucson City Council races are held during the odd numbered years. One essential piece of the Tucson Metro Chamber’s value to our members is our role as an advocate for pro-business policies. Part of that advocacy role is to help identify pro-business candidates and inform our members about candidates seeking elected office and their policy positions. Earlier in May, Tucson Metro Chamber President and CEO Michael Guymon and I attended a seminar learning the different ways Chambers can effectively educate members on candidates running for office. Many Chambers choose to endorse candidates while others interview candidates and create scorecards detailing the candidates’ policy positions. Some Chambers are involved in local and state elections while others focus more on local elections. The bottom line is that all Chambers are in the business of providing information to their members on the candidates who best understand and support business growth and prosperity. Just recently, the Cham-
ber’s Candidate Evaluation Committee (CEC) met to begin discussing the Chamber’s role in this year’s elections. For the contested state legislative races and the Pima Community College Governing Board, the CEC (made up of an equal number of Republicans, independents, and Democrats) plans to interview those candidates this summer. Each candidate will then be assigned a score based on how pro-business the CEC determines their positions are. We will consolidate all the candidates’ answers and scores into an election guide that will be distributed to our members. The Chamber won’t endorse or encourage our members to vote for a certain candidate. We simply want to inform our members about the candidates running and their positions on business-related policy issues. As an important aside, new legislative districts were drawn based on the 2020 census and ultimately approved by the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. The new legislative districts in and around Tucson are Districts 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 23. Oddly enough, District 16 goes as far north as southwest Phoenix and
snakes its way through Casa Grande and down to Ironwood Hill Drive on the west side of Tucson! Redistricting can result in some interesting races as there are often open seats created by a new district. Redistricting can also change the competitiveness of districts. Make sure to visit the Pima County Recorder’s website to find out what legislative district you live in if you are unsure. Also, verify your voter registration status if you recently moved or changed party affiliation so you’re good to go come Primary Election Day on August 2, 2022. Next year the focus will be back on the Tucson City Council race. Up for reelection will be the positions of Mayor and Wards 1, 2, and 4. The CEC will continue to meet and discuss the Chamber’s role and how actively we participate in that very important election. Much like our support for the successful passage of Prop 411, the Chamber is the voice of business for our region and will encourage members to get involved in favor of growth and prosperity. Resource: Pima County Recorder’s website recorder.pima.gov/RecorderHome
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strong leadership with transparency, forward thinking and consistent communication is important to ensure employees feel comfortable and secure in their jobs. At Cox Communications, we offer employees an array of trainings and lectures that provide our employees with ongoing leadership education assuring that they are growing into the best leaders possible. Here are some strategies that will help you be an inspiring, trustworthy leader that employees can count on. Learn your leadership style. Online leadership-style quizzes can help you determine what type of leader you are and how you react in certain situations. Whether you are a more “hands off” leader or an authoritarian, it helps to know what areas you excel at and where you need work. Hire smart. As a leader, it’s your job to ensure that you fill your team with employees who work well together and support the goals of the company. Stay positive. Try to keep a positive attitude at the workplace, even when you are in a slow period of business. Being optimistic in the face of challenges will lift and inspire your team to do the same. Know your team. Get to know your team on a personal level and learn their work styles. Some employees need supervision in order to thrive in a work environment, while some appreciate space to handle things on their own. Be inspirational. Great leaders have a true passion for the company and the projects they work on. Your team members will see the enthusiasm you have for your work and emulate it, especially during times where motivation has dwindled. Try new things. Be on the lookout for new ways to inspire and motivate your employees. At
Cox, our leaders participate in volunteer work alongside their employees to strengthen relationships while giving back to the community. Communicate effectively. When you delegate tasks, be sure that your employee knows exactly what your expectations are for the assignment. Some directions can be lost in translation if your team is working remotely, so checking in via phone or videoconference can bring everyone on the same page. I like to send personal “check in” messages and host lunch discussions with my team from time to time. At Cox, our team and department leaders hold regular “one on one” meetings with their team members so their work, special projects and everyday challenges can be discussed. It is also a great way to really get to know a colleague on a personal level. Encourage feedback. Schedule meetings with employees to discuss any concerns, questions and ideas they may have. At Cox, we establish development plans for each employee and leaders check in regularly to discuss progress and any support needed. Have their back. It’s important for your employees to feel appreciated and secure in their jobs. Casually stop in and ask how they are doing, and see where you can lend a helping hand personally or professionally. Give recognition. A thoughtful note or recognition in a meeting is a great way to show your team that they’re appreciated and motivate them to keep up the good work. Lisa Lovallo is the Southern Arizona market vice president for Cox Communications, leading a team of 250+ Southern Arizona Cox employees. We are proud that our employees complete more than 3,000 hours volunteering in Southern Arizona annually. Reach her at lisa.lovallo@cox.com.
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ucson’s Minimum Wage Act, also known as Proposition 206, took effect on April 1. The Act increased the minimum wage to $13 per hour for all employees (full-time, parttime, temporary and those engaged through an employment or staffing agency) who perform at least five hours of work per workweek within Tucson city limits. The minimum wage is scheduled to increase to $13.50 by January 1, 2023, $14.25 by January 1, 2024, and $15 by January 1, 2025, followed by further adjustments each January, based on inflation. However, Tucson employers should be aware that the Act does far more than merely raise Tucson’s minimum wage. The Act has many other provisions that will affect Tucson employers. Some highlights: The Act creates a City Department of Labor Standards, charged with implementing and enforcing the Act. “Work hours” under the Act expressly include: • Time that an employer requires the employee to undergo a security screening immediately prior to or following a work shift; • Time that an employer requires the employee to be on the employer’s premises or at a prescribed work site; and • Time that an employer requires the employee to be
logged in and actively attentive to an employer-provided computer program, phone application, or similar device. Under the Act, a worker is generally assumed to be an employee, unless the employer can establish that: • The worker is free from control and direction of the hiring entity regarding the performance of work; • The worker performs work that is outside of the usual course of the hiring entity’s business; and • The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the hiring entity. The Act prohibits employers from requiring wage payments be made using a pay card, a reloadable debit card, or some similar method that requires the employee to possess a valid Social Security number. (Some argue that this requirement may conflict with and be preempted by federal and state law.) “Large employers” – defined as employers with an average of at least 26 employees (including part-time, temporary and those employees located outside of the city) during the final quarter of the previous calendar year – must pay employees at least three hours of minimum wage compensation when: • The employee is scheduled to work at least three
hours, timely reports for duty and is able to work the entire shift, and the employer engages the employee for less than three hours; or • The employee is scheduled to work at least three hours, and the employer cancels the employee’s shift with less than 24 hours’ notice. Like Arizona’s wage laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Act generally prohibits employers from making deductions from employee pay, if such deductions would cause the employee to receive less than the minimum wage. The Act prohibits retaliation against employees for exercising their rights under the Act. Further, if an employer takes an adverse action against an employee within 90 days of the employee’s exercising his or her rights under the Act, such conduct creates a rebuttable presumption that the adverse action was retaliatory. Notably, “adverse action” is defined to include actions such as failing to rehire after a seasonal interruption of work and changing an employee’s status to that of an independent contractor. The above is a general summary of some of the Act’s key requirements. It is very possible that the Act may be challenged on federal and state constitutional or other grounds. Tucson employers may wish to consult
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New Arizona law on sealing criminal records may help some renters, but there are limitations Tyler Dedrick, Rachel with criminal records a secKonieczny, Brooke Manning ond chance. and Elena Santa Cruz In 2020, Arizona voters Howard Center for Investigative approved Proposition 207, Journalism called the Smart and Safe Arizona Act, legalizing the use of recreational marijuana HOENIX – A new and creating a process for state law is expected minor marijuana offenses to to give Arizonans with be expunged from an indicriminal backgrounds a vidual’s records. chance to shield their records Last year, the Legislature from public view, improving passed a law allowing Arizoaccess to many opportunities, nans to “set aside” their crimincluding public housing inal records. A set-aside can assistance. dismiss the legal penalties that The Arizona law, which come with having a record, goes into effect Jan. 1, 2023, such as being barred from will give people a chance to owning a firearm or getting a successfully reenter society by license for certain jobs. permitting them to seal their S.B. 1294 goes further, criminal records, under allowing people to petition certain circumstances. But to seal criminal records from the complexity of the process public view, with the excepand longevity of online tion of serious offenses. information may hinder its These three legal processimpact. es: sealings, expungements “Some people say it’s for and set-asides – together transparency reasons that we broadly termed “record let all this stuff go online,” clearing” – have different said Sarah Lageson, a profes- outcomes in Arizona. sor at Rutgers University’s When a marijuana record School of Criminal Justice. is expunged, that record is “But transparency laws are accessible only by that person supposed to function for us and his or her attorney. to be able to watchdog the Sealing a record will hide government, not watchdog it from most everyone, the people that are arrested except for certain parties, by the government.” such as law enforcement for Third take on second public safety purposes. chances In contrast, a record that Arizona Senate Bill 1294, has been set aside still can be spearheaded by Rep. Ben viewed by anyone, including Toma of Peoria and passed in government agencies, em2021, enacted Arizona Reployers and landlords. vised Statute 13-911, the first J.J. Prescott, a criminal law sealing certain criminal law professor at the Univerrecords in the state. sity of Michigan, described The law is the third effort record clearing as a conby Arizona to give people
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tinuum of policies, “from fully available to complete destruction.” Under the new law, Arizonans can petition the court to seal their criminal records if they have completed all terms of their sentence. The law also applies to arrest records and charges that were dismissed or resulted in a “not guilty” ruling. The law comes with a waiting period after the completion of a sentence or parole – a minimum of two years for misdemeanors and five years for felonies and may involve additional court fees. Some criminal records, including for violent or aggravated felonies and sexual offenses, can’t be sealed at all. In an email, Toma said that limiting the types of records that can be sealed “preserves public safety” while still allowing people with a criminal background to “pursue a clean slate.” But for those who are eligible, a lack of information or resources may be a stumbling block. The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office said in March that it had filed more than 10,000 petitions for the expungement of marijuana-related cases since Proposition 207 took effect. It’s unclear how many more people are eligible. The FBI reported nearly 140,000 marijuana possession-related arrests were made from 2010 through 2020 in Arizona. Toma said the new sealing process is intended to be
fairly straightforward so that a petition can be filed without the need for a lawyer. “Virtually anyone should be able to do it on their own,” he said. But Maxine Becker, an attorney for Wildfire Community Action Association of Arizona, said that with a law like this, most people might not be aware they will be eligible to have their records sealed – and even if they are, they might not have the time or money to do so. “It’s not going to be a magic wand in January,” Becker said. Obstacles and limitations Although many advocates and experts can speak anecdotally about the impact of record-clearing legislation, measuring the results of these laws is difficult. With records being hidden from public view, it is difficult for researchers to analyze how record clearing affects a person’s life. In 2020, Prescott and his colleague, Sonja B. Starr, now at University of Chicago, were able to analyze criminal and wage data of expunged records in Michigan against records that were not expunged. They found that people who obtained expungement have lower subsequent crime rates, earned higher wages and had better job opportunities than those who had not expunged their records. The study did not evaluate the impact of expungement on housing, but with the rental
market being so competitive, Becker said, just having a criminal record is enough to hurt an applicant’s chances of finding a place to live. “There is so much competition that if you have a criminal record, someone else who doesn’t is going to have preference,” Becker said. The new Arizona law requires time and resources, barriers that can prove to be significant. Prescott and Starr found that of those eligible for expungement in Michigan, fewer than 7% obtained it within five years in the state’s petition-based system. “A petition-based process means that nothing will happen with your record unless – and until – you ask. There are some barriers to that” Prescott said. “The process itself may be complicated. It may be scary; it may be expensive.” The law gives the Arizona Department of Public Safety the authority to charge fees to process record sealing. The state Supreme Court, which sets the technical details of all Arizona court processes, has yet to publicly share forms, processes or fees. But in neighboring Nevada, the cost of sealing records can be thousands of dollars. And even if criminal records are cleared, Prescott said, privately owned data companies can make it difficult to ensure a person is ever truly free of their record. The Fair Credit Report-
ing Act sets accuracy and transparency requirements for background screening companies, as well as landlords and employers who use criminal background and credit checks to screen applicants. But according to Lageson at Rutgers, there are thousands of “people-search websites” that collect data and do not comply with the credit reporting rules. Each company may keep records even after they have been sealed. “There’s this whack-amole problem,” Lageson said. “You have to go from source to source to ensure that your record is sealed.” Despite the limitations, Becker sees the law as a big step toward potentially helping a lot of people. “If you’re in a spot where you need to use this law, you’ve been on a tough road,” Becker said. “But you know what, as a state, we’re not giving up on you. And I think that’s a significant message for people.” This story was produced for the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, an initiative of the Scripps Howard Foundation in honor of the late news industry executive and pioneer Roy W. Howard. Contact us at howardcenter@ asu.edu, visit us on Twitter @ HowardCenterASU. For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.
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Arizona again near bottom of states for per pupil spending, Census says Morgan Fischer Cronkite News
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ASHINGTON – Arizona was again among the worst states in the nation for per pupil spending on K-12 education in 2020, a ranking that advocates said was embarrassing but not surprising. The numbers from a recent Census Bureau report said Arizona spent 8,785$ per pupil in 2020, ahead of only Utah and Idaho that year. And it was dead last – 51st among states and the District of Columbia – when it came to the amount spent on actual instruction, at 4,801$ per pupil. Both were well below the national average of $13,494 overall and $8,176 on instruction per pupil for that year. The data “reflects the continued failure by Arizona’s legislature to appropriately invest in our state’s future,” a spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Education said in a statement. But a spokesperson for Gov. Doug Ducey said the numbers “may not portray the complete picture of what’s happening in Arizona.” C.J. Karamargin said that higher spending does not equal a better educational system. “If spending were a measure of success, then Washington, D.C., and New York
would have the best educated kids in the country,” Karamargin said. Many advocates remain frustrated by the state being historically and “generally underinvested” in public education in relation to the population, said Chris Kotterman, director of governmental relations for the Arizona School Boards Association. That was echoed by Beth Lewis, the director of Save Our Schools Arizona, who said many teachers and those involved with the education system have “kind of gotten used to” the state’s low ranking on school funding. “Schools are not able to afford a music teacher, an art teacher, a classroom aide,” said Lewis, who is also a teacher. “Teachers are trying to be everything; counselors, assistant principals, nurses.” Arizona remains mired at the bottom of the rankings despite a 17.3% increase in per pupil funding between 2015 and 2020, according to the Census Bureau. But that still lagged behind the national average of an 18.5% increase during the period. Advocates are hopeful – but not optimistic – that the situation will change next year, with the state sitting on a budget surplus that could be as high as $5.3 billion. They also point to the will of the voters in the form of Proposition 208. Approved by voters in 2020, it would have dedicated more than
$800 million in new taxes to schools in the first year, primarily to teachers’ salaries, but it has since been struck down in Arizona courts. The Arizona Education Association has created an “educator’s budget” that calls for allocating up to 1.2$ billion of ongoing revenue in the surplus to the public education system. It calls for increased spending on base salaries, full-day kindergarten, special education funding and career and technical education programs, among other initiatives. “We’re not asking to go from 50th to one,” said AEA Vice President Marisol Garcia of the educator’s budget. “We’re asking to go from 50th to 30th.” Garcia said the fact that Arizona voters approved Prop 208 proves that low education funding in the state is “not aligned with the priorities of parents, teachers, students.” But Kotterman said schools are likely to receive only a fraction of that request, although he hopes lawmakers can increase school funding closer to the $500 million to $700 million range. The Legislature has until July 1 to approve a budget for fiscal 2023. The Arizona Education Department spokesperson said lawmakers “must pass a budget that supports fair pay for our state’s educators and meets
the needs of every student in our classrooms.” For now, advocates say, with teachers being forced to take on more and more in the classroom, many schools are struggling to hold it together. “Arizona is not providing even close to an adequate amount of resources for our children,” Lewis said. “We know that our poor children definitely bear the brunt much worse than more welloff areas.” The lack of funding has led many teachers to quit their
jobs because of burnout, said Garcia, who said schools are being held together “with a Band-Aid and a prayer.” Kotterman said new teachers in Arizona often only last three to five years before leaving the profession. “The trend is that teachers are leaving because they’re just so tired and they feel like they are not able to do the job anymore,” Lewis said. In September 2021, 25.9% of teacher vacancies in Arizona schools remained unfilled and %55.4 of the vacancies were a by teachers
who did not meet the state’s standard certification requirements, surveys from the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association showed. Garcia said lawmakers need to listen to what voters said in passing Prop 208. “It’s the voters who are behind this, they’ve passed propositions,” Garcia said. “If parents didn’t want schools to be starved, they wouldn’t be sending their kids to public schools.” For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.
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Guest Commentary: Pima County helping families through preschool program PEEPs JRex Scott
especially since there is a stable source of funding now in place. My colleagues on the nited States Senator Board of Supervisors and Edward Markey once I created this program last said that “educaspring to help families who tion is not only a ladder of wanted their daughters and opportunity, but it is also an sons to have the benefits investment in our future.” of preschool, but struggled He could have been talking with the cost. The average about the Pima Early Edumonthly cost for preschool cation Program scholarships in Pima County is $800 (PEEPs) when he made that per child. If you are parents statement. As schools close whose budgets are already for the summer, this essential stretched thin by paying program is celebrating the for housing, food in your end of its first year. We are kitchen, gas in your car also looking forward to how and all the other expenses the program will help more families confront, putting children in the years to come, your child in preschool may Special to Tucson Local Media
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seem like a luxury. Children from those families are then denied everything a quality preschool experience can grant them. If your family income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, your child can qualify for a scholarship that will get them into the preschool of your choice. For a family of four, that is an annual income of roughly $53,000 per year. Next year, we will pilot an initiative for parents in the Tucson Unified School District that will allow families whose income is at or below 300% of the federal poverty level to qualify for assis-
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tance. In this first year, PEEPs helped close to 700 children who might have missed out on preschool had the program not been in place. Think of what that opportunity means for these kids and their futures! For their families and their peace of mind! For our community and its future! In the years to come, even more children will be served. One superintendent told me recently that the preschools in his district will be able to accommodate almost half a kindergarten cohort next year based on their plans for expansion. During this last year and for the next two, Pima County is using pandemic relief funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act to fund our portion of the program. We also receive financial support from the City of Tucson, the Town of Marana, the Town of Oro Valley and all participating school districts. Donations to the United Way from individuals and businesses also provide necessary support. When pandemic relief funds are exhausted, we will make use of a small portion of the secondary property tax that funds the library district to pay the county’s share of the program. A law passed by the Arizona Legislature and signed by Gov. Doug Ducey last spring gave all counties this authority. With this assurance of annual funding, our school district partners and their
counterparts in the private sector can move forward with confidence to ensure that we have the capacity to enroll any child in preschool whose parent wants that for them. The support from United Way mostly assists PEEPs through a program known as Accelerate Quality, which is designed to help preschools meet the State of Arizona’s standards for high quality early childhood education. Thanks in part to this program, there are now 208 preschool providers in our county that meet the state’s expectations. That number will grow as school districts and other providers expand their capacity. Please visit the Pima County website to learn more about PEEPs, the Accelerate Quality endeavor and to read the progress reports from this first year. If you live in one of the
participating school districts, are a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, or the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, find out what is being done in your area to increase preschool enrollment. If you are interested in any private sector preschool provider, find out if they are part of the program. President Kennedy admonished us to remember that “our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.” We should never allow any of our children to be denied the benefits of education, no matter their family income. The investments we make in our children and their future are always necessary and worthwhile. I hope that every citizen in Pima County will see the potential inherent in knocking down the barriers to access to quality early childhood education.
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Dementia training key to better care at retirement community Nicole Feltman
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any staff at The Watermark at Continental Ranch said they felt really anxious and stressed out during and after wrapping up a Dementia Live training session on May 11. Anthony Burja, a movein coordinator, has only been at The Watermark for six months and felt like the training helped him gain a better understanding of what the residents are going through.
“I think this is going to assist us with having a new respect for exactly how other people feel.” Burja said after explaining how he felt embarrassment and awkwardness through his training. The free training session requires family and staff to put on a pair of glasses that imitate macular degeneration, which is a condition that causes blurred vision and vision loss. Along with the glasses, the class wore headphones that have about 10 different sounds going, sometimes at once, which made focusing very difficult. The trainees were given
five simple tasks to complete while the headphones and glasses were on. A full 71 percent of full time staff that work with memory care residents at Continental Ranch have undergone Dementia Live training, including all housekeeping, dining and maintenance staff as well as the leadership team. More than one in 10 people (10.7%) age 65 and older has Alzheimer’s dementia, according to a 2022 Alzheimer’s Dementia report. To The Watermark, memory care isn’t a high-
er level of care, it is just a different way of delivering care for a specific disease. Leslie Webster, membership associate at The Watermark at Continental Ranch, said the training helps her be more aware of the challenges some residents face. “For us to truly be able to understand what our residents are experiencing on a day-to-day basis can only make us better at what we do,” Webster said. Dementia is a growing disease in America with an estimated 58 million people already suffering from
the disease, with experts predicting that number will rise to 88 million by 2050. In Arizona alone, numbers are expected to grow to 200,000 people having Alzheimer’s Dementia by 2025, a 33 percent increase from 2020, according to a 2022 Alzheimer’s Report. Karen Rorke, membership director of The Watermark, finds Dementia Live training crucial to not only staff but family members as well. Rorke said having staff trained in dementia care leads to patients having lower anxiety, a higher level of trust
and an increased amount of physical comfort. Rorke said that communication is a huge factor into their community. Rorke’s father has Alzhiemer’s Disease, so she understands that it is a family journey and the importance of including family members in every piece of information. “As more and more people are touched by it, I think training and hunger for knowledge is going to create more opportunities to get this on to a vast majority of the public rather than just in senior living communities.” Rorke said.
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Mayor Romero touts infrastructure spending on the horizon Katya Mendoza
and Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu held a press call to highlight its investments in southern Arizona on Wednesday, May 25. ucsonans should expect “In the last six months, [we’ve] to see more than band just gotten $110 billion out of aid-solutions to the city’s the door, there’s another $100 “crumbling infrastructure” thanks billion coming, we have 4,300 to the Bipartisan Infrastructure projects that have been funded in Law (BIL), signed by President 3,200 counties in all 50 states,” Joe Biden on November 15, 2021. Landrieu said. The historic investment This bill also contains a $13.2 towards the rebuilding of infrabillion set aside for tribal comstructure in America, access to munities. high-speed internet, clean energy, The state of Arizona has higher paying jobs and more cel- received a total of $1.8 billion in ebrated its six-month anniversary funding, with more than 70% earlier this month. meant for transportation and alTucson Mayor Regina Romero most 30% for climate, energy and and White House Senior Advisor environment-related projects. Tucson Local Media
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Under the infrastructure program, the City of Tucson intends to apply for funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) Grant Program to redo the “structurally deficient” 22nd Street Bridge, which has lacked the capacity to carry ambulances, transit buses and heavy trucks, Romero said. The city is also preparing to apply for a rapid transit line to expand access to alternative transportation, reduce carbon emissions and potentially expand the modern streetcar. Romero recalled the $63 million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant the city
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received under the Obama administration, which has led to $4 billion in private investment. “One of the greatest responsibilities of [the] government is investing in our infrastructure, because public infrastructure leverages private investment,” Romero said. Another component of the new infrastructure program is investment in electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure, which has allowed the city to purchase 10 electric vehicles for the transit fleet and partner with private utility company Tucson Electric Power, which has contributed towards the EV infrastructure and Tucson’s existing EV roadmap.
“On the federal level, there are two $5 billion pots of money that are designed to provide battery-operated school buses and another $5 billion for transit authorities to have loans that will be forgivable or direct grants to buy new buses across the country,” Landrieu said. The infrastructure dollars will also support the city’s PFAS remediation, or the removal of toxic substances found in water, in addition to the $1 million EPA Brownfield grant received to redevelop economically and culturally low-income communities. Romero supports the possibility of connecting Tucson and Phoenix, with a $66 billion
transportation investment in Amtrak. The highly anticipated project would decrease traffic on the I-10, see more development between the two cities and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Many of these projects are ready to go, such as the 22nd Street bridge, which is “shovel-ready,” according to Romero. Others will require long-term design, engineering and bidding. Tucsonans should also expect to see more road repair near residential areas throughout the next 10 years following voters’ overwhelming approval of Proposition 411 on May 17. “We’re ready to go, we have a long list,” Romero said.
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Exoskeleton suit designed to reduce strain on manual laborers Troy Hill
heavy objects or bending over all day, making back injuries “a thing of the past.” The suit, which weighs only HOENIX – The term 8 pounds, consists of a vest “exoskeleton” often is and two small devices that associated with sci-fi rest on the hips. Two paddles and futuristic films, such as press down on the front of the “Terminator,” “Aliens” and the wearer’s thighs, which adds 20 “Avengers” series. pounds of torque to the wearBut the exoskeleton er’s leg strength. developed by Arizona State The collaborators have University and the Phoenix developed different sizes of engineering companies WearT- exoskeleton for different body ech Center, GoX Labs and types and sizes. Augspurger Komm EngineerIt’s an updated take on the ing isn’t CGI – it’s real, with APEx suit, which the Air Force potential future implications developed in response to the for workers. Their PhenEx suit high rate of musculoskeletal inassists manual laborers moving juries suffered by aerial porters, Cronkite News
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the service members who move passengers, cargo and equipment for the service. Joseph Hitt, the CEO of GoX Labs, said they tested the APEx exoskeletons at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, California, over eight weeks last spring. The porters responded well to using the exoskeletons, Hitt said, and wanted to use them more. The PhenEx suits will be for civilian use, said Wes Gullett, the director of operations at WearTech Center. This project is important because everyday people eventually will get to use the suits and benefit from them, he said.
“People who work in the Amazon warehouse, people who are lettuce pickers out in the fields, will be able to use these kinds of products, and it
will reduce their injuries and make their lives so much better,” Gullett said. “Back injuries will be a thing of the past.” The consortium plans to let
companies with operations in Arizona test the suits in a few months. For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.
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New program helps essential workers with down payment on homes Alexandra Pere
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kyrocketing housing costs and out-of-state competition are pushing many Arizonans out of the housing market. First-time homebuyers or middle to low-income homebuyers can barely compete with cash offers that go way above the asking price. Even those in the health industry are having difficulties in finding homes. Dre Thompson became uniquely aware of this problem when she read a story about a nurse in Phoenix who couldn’t buy a house. “Serving frontline throughout the pandemic and wasn’t able to buy a home in the city of Phoenix and I just felt that there’s something problematic there,” Thompson said. Thompson is the first CEO of Tucson’s Industrial Development Authority (IDA), a nonprofit economic development organization that brings together different stakeholders to create projects for Tucson’s community like affordable housing, climate, and infrastructure projects. Thompson said essential workers needed to be supported in the frenzied
market. Thompson worried that essential workers may end up leaving Tucson to find housing elsewhere and this would be incredibly detrimental to the Tucson community. In partnership with the City of Tucson, Tucson Realtors Charitable Foundation, FHR Cares, CIC, Pima IDA, and Pima Tucson Homebuyers Solution, Tucson IDA will begin offering down payment assistance to essential workers in June through the Essential Workers Housing Fund. Tucson IDA will use the Centers for Disease Control’s definition of an essential worker to assess qualified applicants. “There’s a lot so this does to help people be more competitive because they can come in with a stronger downpayment and the good thing about this program is that it doesn’t slow down the home buying process, there are down payment programs out there that aren’t going to look as desirable to go to the seller because there’s a delay, but this doesn’t delay the timeline at all,” Thompson said. The housing fund will provide 1% of the first mortgage loan, up to $2,500, to assist with closing costs. What’s more, applicants can
layer this on top of the Pima Tucson Homebuyer’s Solution Program (PTHS) if their income is under $122,100. The PTHS Program covers 2% to 5% of the first mortgage loan in downpayment assistance. The assistance in both programs can be considered a grant if the buyer stays in the home for three years and makes the home their permanent residence. “But what homeownership brings to families, it brings financial stability, so they can go from renting, moving from place to place and school to school, to homeownership to wealth creation,” Tucson Mayor Regina Romero said at the Essential Workers Housing Fund press conference on Wednesday, May 25. These programs came at just the right time because housing is getting much less affordable. According to RealtyHop’s May 2022 Housing Affordability Index, 90 cities out of 100 experienced housing price increases every month. Tucson ranks #45 out of 100 and it is reported that 35% of household income goes to homeownership costs. This is a 1.69% increase from April’s Index report. Homeownership is one
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of the easier ways for Tucson residents to begin wealth creation and the current housing market exacerbates wealth inequality. If only high-income people can buy homes, then Tucson loses the opportunity to build wealth throughout all aspects of the community. “Ninety percent of them (PTHS participants) are first-time homebuyers, but you don’t need to be a firsttime homebuyer to
participate,” Thompson said. “Fifty-five percent of the participants in this program identify as Hispanic or Latino and so we really see homeownership as a part of building generational wealth.” By layering the benefits of PTHS and the Essential Workers Housing Fund for homebuyers, Thompson believes this will address some of the inequality in the housing market at the moment.
“It’s very meaningful, just because of the way that essential workers for so supportive in our community during the pandemic and this is just some ability to say thank you to them for the work that they did,” Thompson said. Find more information, lender checklists, and a list of essential workers that qualify for the fund at essentialworkershousingfund.com or pimatucsonhomebuyers.com/essentialworkers.
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For many in Arizona, back to work does not mean back to the office Neetish Basnet
Only eight states and the District of Columbia had a lower percentage of on-site workers than Arizona. Participation rates ranged from computer monitor a high of 70.7% of onsite square that lights workers in Utah to a low of green on the edges 51.6% in Mississippi. when he speaks has become Experts attribute ArizoSteven Zylstra’s de facto na’s popularity among the office. Zylstra is one of a sizable sweatpants set to the early days of the pandemic, when number of Arizonans who have yet to go back to the of- relative affordability and fice two years after the start less-competitive real estate markets attracted workers to of the pandemic, opting the state. instead to meet all his cliThey also say the types of ents, co-workers and other professional connections in jobs available in a state also affect the ability to telework the digital space. for workers. And Arizona The latest Census Household Pulse Survey has recently experienced a steady growth in the tech found that slightly more than %60 of Americans were industry, where remote working was ubiquitous even working on-site in the first before the pandemic. week of this month, with “More tech supports more the rest either working from remote work,” said Dennis home or not working at all. Hoffman, an economics In Arizona, the number professor at Arizona State was even lower, with just University. “But really, the 58.1% of people zoomdriver is quality of life and ing back to the office, as great internet connectivity.” opposed to Zooming to Last year, the number the office. The rate for the of tech jobs in Arizona inPhoenix-Mesa-Chandler creased by 3.09%, accordregion was virtually the ing to a Arizona Technology same, at 58.2%. Council report, which said “Some CEOs want their there are currently more people back right in the than 207,000 tech jobs office,” said Zylstra, the in the state. The Phoenixpresident and CEO of the Arizona Technology Coun- area alone is home to 795 software companies and cil. “I don’t think that’s 275 new startups, according going to bode very well for those CEOs in the long run. to Gregslist, a directory of tech firms and jobs. Because there’s, you know, Travis Laird, vice presitoo many advantages for us dent for business consulting to work from home.”
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firm Robert Half, has seen the demand for remote work rise in Arizona. And in the current state of candidate-friendly job market, Laird said, companies need to offer perks, like workfrom-home, for new hires or to keep the people they already have. “We hear from candidates all the time that, ‘If my employer changes my work setup – which is fully remote – they want me to be hybrid or they want me to work back on site full time, I will immediately consider a job change,’” Laird said. Data from Robert Half
show roughly 50% of employees want to continue remote working or experiment with a hybrid work environment. However, following two years of disruption to the traditional work model, managers are now craving the bygone days. According to Robert Half, 73% of employers in the Phoenix-metro area want and expect workers to return to the office shortly. That number was about 60% a year ago. “What we went through in 2020 was one of the biggest shifts in how people work,” Laird said. “And I think
those that are more successful on the other side of this will continue to embrace that mentality of factoring in that employees are now going to view how they work or where they work as a critical component.” But Hoffman said that’s going to be a tough sell to workers who were attracted to the state by the possibility of working without going to an office. “Remote work has resulted in an acceleration of domestic in-migration to Arizona,” Hoffman said. “People can now, in many cases, live where they want
and remote work. No need to be in large cities, commuting, etc.” Zylstra said he thinks remote work “is here to stay,” as Arizona continues to attract companies and competition for workers remains high. “Now people can live in Prescott or Flagstaff or anywhere and live in an environment that’s conducive to their desires and work from those remote areas,” he said. “So it creates an advantage for building a workforce for Arizona.” For more stories from Cronkite News, visit cronkitenews.azpbs.org.
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Balloon tech and moon rocks
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Bridges will provide the capability to simulate the “edge of space” in Arizona. Engineers and researchers will have the opportunity to test hardware designed for the “edge of space.” Students will have hands-on experience working with telescopes, instruments and balloon technology used for astronomy research. The building was officially named the Mission Integration Laboratory (MIL). Students and researchers “The Mission Integration at the University of Arizona Lab, with its spacious high bay, is perfect for intewill have a new building to simulate “the edge of space” grating the instruments, for scientific discovery. The telescopes and high-altitude balloons that together “edge of space” is the area will meet the demands of where the earth’s atmosNASA’s ongoing program phere and space collide. of Long Duration Balloon This transitory area is difficult to research, but this flight missions,” said Buell Jannuzi, director of Denew structure being built partment of Astronomy and at the UA Tech Parks at the
ith a major research university right in our backyard, a strong military presence and innovative companies throughout the metro region, there’s often a plethora of interesting science, medical and technology news to be found in Southern Arizona. Here’s a breakdown of the most interesting recent developments.
“High Bay” is a Go
Steward Observatory in the UA College of Science in a press release. Balloon research missions allow scientists to access space without constructing a rocket, a more cost-effective way to test space hardware. The MIL will be used by UA astronomy researcher Dan Marrone for the Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM), a NASA-funded balloon mission that will piece together a map showing galaxies over the span of 5 billion years of cosmic history. “The MIL allows us to assemble and thoroughly test the TIM payload so that we’re ready to make it work in a short Antarctic summer when we have to fly it. This will be the first place that we put together the whole 5,000-pound payload that will be going to the edge of
space,” Marrone said in a press release. MIL will have hangar space and an accompanying overhead crane to build and test balloon technology before missions. Building the “high bay” facility will no doubt bring more funding prospects to the UA for astronomical research from NASA. The MIL’s design was inspired by NASA’s Long Duration Balloon hangars in Antarctica.
Raytheon Increases Radar Production for Navy
contract finalized in March. The U.S. Navy wants to use these radar capabilities on every aspect of its fleet to detect incoming missiles and planes. “SPY-6 is the premiere surface naval radar in the world, and contracts like this ensure sailors across the fleet will be equipped with the information, tracking and detection it provides,” Kim Ernzen, president of Naval Power at Raytheon Missiles & Defense, said in a press release. “SPY-6 radar arrays have already been delivered to multiple ships with installation ongoing.”
Raytheon Missiles & Defense was awarded a $423 million contract to continue to produce SPY-6 radars for the U.S. Navy. This is the first step towards fulfilling During NASA’s Apola $3.16 billion hardware, production and sustainment lo 15 mission in 1971,
NASA Loans Moon Rock to Tucson
astronauts David Scott and Jame Irwin brought back 170 pounds of moon rocks for earthly research. Everyone in Tucson can see a piece of this history at the University of Arizona Alfie Norville Gem & Mineral Museum. Weighing 4 oz and measuring 3 inches in length, the space rock is on loan from NASA. It is the biggest chunk of moon rocks that NASA loans to museums. The rock is on display in the museum’s Mineral Evolution Gallery. “It’s a privilege to have this rock here,” said Elizabeth Gass, exhibit specialist at the Museum in a press release. “Not every museum qualifies to have one because of the strict security protocols needed to keep the rock safe.”
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Ten55 Brewing releases new summer ale to benefit the United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Dr. Matt Russell
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uilding a thriving community by uniting people, ideas and resources requires lots of hard work. I’d suggest that recognizing these tireless efforts requires lots of cold beer. What a coincidence. In commemorating the 100th Anniversary of United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Ten55 Brewing Company released its UNITED Summer Ale last week, a sudsy way to celebrate the organization’s century of service during the year’s warmest months. The inaugural batch of this summer seasonal was intentionally brewed to express gratitude for United Way and to recognize the impact that its programs have on individuals and families across the community. And to go a step further, Ten55 will donate a portion of the proceeds from the beer’s sales to United Way’s Community Impact Fund. “I’ve long been a proponent of United Way and the critical catalyst role it plays,” said Chris Squires, managing partner of Ten55 Brewing Company. “I’ve volunteered at their events and have seen the impact of their work, and it’s a privilege
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for my team to publicly stand with them on this milestone moment in their service to Southern Arizona.” Squires told me that this light and crisp ale, with a hint of spice, was exactly the style that he was after from the beginning of the project. While he has brewed a number of rich and robust stouts, porters, and high-octane IPAs over his nearly 10 years in business, he acknowledged that they don’t really trend when the mercury hits triple digits. “This beer should connect with everyone who enjoys a true craft experience,” he said. “It’s super clean, flavorful, and approachable, a refreshing way to satisfy a summer thirst in the Sonoran
Desert.” Squires also took a page from United Way’s “Live United” playbook by uniting ingredients that he thought would work particularly well in building a beer. One is a rare peppercorn from western Africa, known as Grains of Paradise, which brings subtle notes of ginger, cardamom, citrus and juniper to the beer which weighs in at 5.8 percent on the Alcohol by Volume scale. “I love the celebratory nature of this project and am excited by this unique collaboration,” said Melissa D’Auria, vice president of communications and engagement at the local United Way. “Funds raised from sales of this beer will be put towards our programs
and initiatives focused on quality education, financial wellness, and health, and that means books for underserved children, free tax preparation to families, and end of life care services for older adults in our community.” D’Auria, who typically enjoys lagers during the summer, appeared to be a quick convert when she sampled this ale for the first time. “It’s light and easy drinking, but still has enough body and complexity to savor each sip,” she said. “My expecta-
tions have officially been exceeded!” Wholesale pre-orders of the UNITED Summer Ale were reportedly so strong that the production of a second batch is already underway. The beer is expected to hit the taps at more than 30 bars and restaurants across Southern Arizona. At press time, it was spotted at Tap and Bottle, Noble Hops, and Tucson Hop Shop. With the brewery’s pending relocation from its downtown space to a bigger and soon-to-berevealed spot in mid-
town, the beer will not be available at the Ten55 taproom. Enjoy some craft beer for a cause this summer. Ask for it by name and help to build a thriving community. Contact Matt Russell, whose day job is CEO of Russell Public Communications, at mrussell@ russellpublic.com. Russell is also the publisher of OnTheMenuLive.com as well as the host of the Friday Weekend Watch segment on the “Buckmaster Show” on KVOI 1030 AM. Disclosure: United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona is a client of Russell Public Communications.
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Acute-Care Hospitals Rank Business 2022 Address 2021
Phone Company Email Website
No of No. of Inpatient Profit or No. of F-T Specialties Patients Licensed Days Nonprofit Local Admitted Beds Employees in 2021
Top Local Executives
Year Establ. Locally
1
Northwest Medical Center 6200 N. La Cholla Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85741
(520) 742-9000 N/A HealthierTucson.com
13,400
300
N/A
N/A
N/A
Emergency departments, accredited chest pain center, stroke Chad Hatfield center, bariatric program, neurology and neurosurgery, cardiothoracic surgery, outpatient imaging, oncology, total joint replacement, robotic surgery, GI lab, women's center, wound care center, inpatient rehabilitation center, urgent care, cardiac care, digestive health
1983
2
Oro Valley Hospital 1551 E. Tangerine Rd. Oro Valley, AZ 85755
(520) 901-3500 N/A HealthierTucson.com
5,100
146
N/A
N/A
N/A
Certified chest pain center and stroke center, robotic-assisted Cameron Lewis general surgery and total joint replacement, gastroenterology, cardiology, inpatient rehabilitation, emergency room and freestanding emergency center, diagnostic imaging, sleep center, behavioral health
2005
3
Northwest Medical Center Sahuarita 16260 S Rancho Sahuarita Blvd. Sahuarita, AZ 85629
(520) 416-7100 N/A https://www.healthiertucson.com/northwest-medical-centersahuarita?utm_campaign=gmb&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=local
400
18
N/A
N/A
N/A
Emergency department, outpatient imaging, outpatient lab services, cardiology, gastroenterology, orthopedic surgery, general surgery
Brett Lee Brian Sinotte
2020
4
Carondelet Marana Hospital 5620 W Cortaro Farms Rd. Tucson, AZ 85742
(520) 872-4000 N/A carondelet.org
270
13
N/A
Profit
N/A
Micro hospital, emergent care
Monica Vargas- 2021 Mahar Megan Powe
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Assisted Living Facilities Rank Business 2021 Address 2020
Phone Company Email Website
No. of Licensing Accreditation Units and Certification Residents
Specialties
Parent Company Headquarters
Top Local Executives
Year Establ. Locally
1
Villa Hermosa 6300 East Speedway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85710
(520) 298-6400 VillaHermosaMarketing@SRG-LLC.com VillaHermosaSeniorLiving.com
205 N/A
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and licensed for Assisted Living services with the State of Arizona
Assisted Living Services
Senior Resource Group www.SRGseniorliving.com
Mike Soto
2008
2
LaPosada at Park Centre, Inc. 350 E. Morningside Rd. Green Valley, AZ 85614
(520) 648-8131 marketing@laposadagv.com posadalife.org
136 N/A
Licensed by the AZ Dept of Continuing Care Retirement Community Health Services for Supervisory, Personal and Memory Care. CARF Accredited.
La Posada Green Valley AZ
Joni Condit Paul Ide
1996
3
Amber Lights 6231 N. Montebella Rd. Tucson, AZ 85704
(520) 498-0668 Amber_Lights@SRG-LLC.com AmberLightsRetirement.com
120 N/A
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitative Facilities (CARF) and licensed Assisted Living with State of Arizona
Independent and assisted living
Senior Resource Group Solana Beach, CA
Teresa Merritt
1999
4
The Ranch Estates of Tucson 2365 West Orange Grove Road Tucson, AZ 85741
(520) 328-8509 csmith@theranchestatesoftucson.com www.theranchestatesoftucson.com
107 110
Arizona Department of Health Services
Assisted Living and Memory Care
Milestone Retirement 201 NE Park Plaza Drive Suite 105 Vancouver, WA 98684
Christopher Smith
2017
5
The Forum at Tucson 2500 N. Rosemont Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 325-4800 lclemons@5ssl.com www.theforumattucson.com
93 N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Liesen Clemons Fletcher Kuhn
1989
6
Fairmount Assisted Living and Memory Care, LLC 6161 E Fairmount St Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 344-8890 Phoebe@Fairmountal.com Fairmountassistedliving.com
35 40
Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona Board of Nursing Tucson City buisness license
Assisted Living, Hospice and Dementia
Tucson, Arizona
Mattie A. Nason Steven E. Nason
2012
7
Academy Villas @ Academy Village 13775 E. Langtry Lane/7700 S Vivaldi Ct. Tucson, AZ 85747
(520) 647-7500 patstrong.villas@gmail.com academyvillas.org
26 34
Supervisory Personal Directed
Individualized care with higher staff to resident ratios
Tucson
Patricia Strong
2010/ 2017
8
Aspen Care Homes 1445 W. Roller Coaster Rd Tucson, AZ 85704
(520) 245-7580 info@aspencarehome.com www.aspencarehome.com
20 20
N/A
N/A
N/A
9
Cherry's Assisted Living Home 10363 East Camino La Joya Pantano Tucson, AZ 85730
(520) 721-6641 rcherry8@cox.net cherrysassistedlivinghome.com
AL7391H Dept. of Health — Arizona
Assisted Living Home and Residential Care
Tucson, AZ
Robert P Cherry
2008
9
The Bradford Home 710 N Mann Ave Tucson, AZ 85710
(520) 822-8416 mark.thebradfordhome@gmail.com www.thebradfordhomeaz.com
Tucson, AZ
Mark Daily Robert Daily
2012
1 5 1 10
Assisted Living Home AL8713H Alzheimer's/ Dementia
Ranked by number of units Ranked information is provided by business representatives at no charge and is ranked alphabetically in case of ties. Other businesses were contacted but either declined or did not respond by deadline. There is no charge to be included in Inside Tucson Business listings. N/A=not provided WND=would not disclose NL=not listed last year NR=listed last year but ranking criteria not provided
2010
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Rehabilitation Centers Rank Business 2021 Address 2020
Phone Company Email Website
No of Patients Ages Covered No. of Physicians, Services Offered Treated in Nurses, 2020 Therapists, Support Staff
1
Amity Foundation at Circle Tree Ranch 10500 E. Tanque Verde Rd. Tucson, AZ 85749
(520) 749-5980 ghenderson@amityfdn.org circletreeranch.org
2
Community Medical Services, Inc.-Broadway (520) 314-1400 6802 E. Broadway moneecia.hill@cmsgiveshope.com Tucson, AZ 85710 www.communitymedicalservices.org
3 4
1,090
Top Local Executives
Year Establ. Locally
18+
P: 0 N: 1 T: 6 S: 36
Specialized curriculum for substance/alcohol dependence, post-traumatic stress disorder and trauma in a teaching and therapeutic community
Rod Mullen
1969
780
18 and up, Adults
P: 1 N: 3 T: 0 S: 14
Medication Assisted Treatment: Suboxone, Methadone, Vivitrol, Naloxone; Counseling in 1:1 and groups; nursing; medical; peer support
Haley Horton
2018
Community Medical Services, Inc.-Northwest (520) 775-3500 Tucson N/A 2001 W. Orange Grove Rd., Suite 202 https://communitymedicalservices.org/ Tucson, AZ 85704
450
18 and up, Adults
P: 1 N: 1 T: 0 S: 8
Medication Assisted Treatment, Counseling, Case Management, Nursing Haley Horton Services, Treatment Planning, Behavioral Health Assessment and Discharge Planning
2017
Community Medical Services, Inc.-Tucson on (520) 485-3200 Park keith.jeffery@cmsgiveshope.com 3720 S Park Ave Ste 601 communitymedicalservices.org Tucson, AZ 85713
300
18 and up, Adults
P: 1 N: 2 T: 0 S: 6
M.A.T. services, counseling, workforce development
2020
Haley Horton
Ranked by the number of patients treated in 2020 Ranked information is provided by business representatives at no charge and is ranked alphabetically in case of ties. Other businesses were contacted but either declined or did not respond by deadline. There is no charge to be included in Inside Tucson Business listings. P=physician, N=nurses, T=therapists, S=support staff N/A=not provided WND=would not disclose NL=not listed last year NR=listed last year but ranking criteria not provided
Home Health Care & Hospice Agencies Rank Business 2022 Address 2021
Phone Company Email Website
No. of F-T Services Offered Healthcare Providers
Therapies Offered
Licensed Medicare Accredited Certifications
Parent Company Headquarters
Top Local Executives
Year Establ. Locally
1
Dependable Health Services 1141 N El Dorado Place, Ste 300 Tucson, AZ 85715
(520) 721-3822 jschifano@dependablehealth.com dependablehealth.com
450
Skilled nurses, private duty staff, home health aides, hospice
O, P, S, SW
Y N CNA, LPN, RN, T
Tucson
Joe M. Schifano Tom Pepping Theresa Hamilton
1992
2
Visiting Angels Tucson 7564 N La Cholla Blvd Tucson , AZ 85741
(520) 579-0099 mmsmith@visitingangels.com www.visitingangels.com/tucson
109
Provider of essential personal in-home care. Our services include assistance with bathing and personal hygiene, dressing, medication reminders, meal preparation and meal planning, errands/shopping, companionship, light housekeeping, dementia and Alzheimer's care; up to 24/7 care, respite care for families, and Case Management. We also provide Medication Management by our RN.
N/A N/A 40
Bryn Mawr, PA
Lydia Tully, Ph.D.
2008
3
NSI Nursing Service, INC. 5995 E Grant Rd. Suite # 107 Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 731-1117 admin@nsinursing.com nsinursing.com
105
RN case management, wound care, respiratory care, LPNs, CNAs, ACWs, Home Health Aides, personal care, light housekeeping, meal preparation, Medicare, private insurance, private pay, ALTCS, DDD
Y N/A CNA, LPN, RN, T
Tucson, AZ
Yasaleah Anderson
1985
4
Homewatch Caregivers of Tucson 1870 W. Orange Grove Road Tucson, AZ 85704
(520) 297-9349 phc@homewatchcaregivers.com www.homewatchcaregivers.com/tucson
86
Companionship, caregiving, shopping, assistant to appointments, medication reminders, medication set-ups
N N CNA, LPN, RN
Tucson, AZ
Margaret "Margie" M. Lannon
2009
5
Valor HospiceCare & The Valor Institute for Palliative Medicine 1760 E. River Road, Suite 150 Tucson, AZ 85718
(520) 615-3996 info@valorhospicecare.com www.valorhospicecare.com
68
Valor Health System, Primary Care, Palliative Care, Care Mgmt, O, P, R, S, SW Telehealth, Hospice - Offices in Tucson, Green Valley, Sierra Vista
Y Valor Health 2990 N. Y Campbell Ave, Suite 230 CNA, LPN, RN, NP, T, Tucson, AZ 85719 MD, LMSW/LCSW
Dan Peterson Grant Rowe
2004
6
Aventas Home Health 2193 N Camino Principal, #161 Tucson, AZ 85715
(520) 207-4111 anneryan@aventas.org www.aventashomecare.com
40
Skilled Visits and hourly care
Y N CNA, LPNs RNs THERAPISTS
Local owned and operated Anne E Ryan Rudy Martinez
7
TMC Hospice/Peppi's House 2715 N. Wyatt Dr. Tucson, AZ 85712
(520) 324-2438 N/A www.tmcaz.com/hospice
Y Y CNA RN LPN PCT
Tucson, AZ
2
Nursing, Social Work, Chaplain,PCT/aide, Bereavement, Volunteers, Home hospice and in-patient care, respite care, medical director, pediatrics, long term care placement, alternative therapies.
P, I
P,O,S
2008
Judy Rich, R.N., MSN 1992 Mimi Coomler, R.N.
Ranked by the number of full-time health care providers (2 P-T = 1 F-T) Ranked information is provided by business representatives at no charge and is ranked alphabetically in case of ties. Other businesses were contacted but either declined or did not respond by deadline. There is no charge to be included in Inside Tucson Business listings. N/A=not provided WND=would not disclose NL=not listed last year NR=listed last year but ranking criteria not provided Therapies: O=occupational therapy P=physical therapy R=respiratory therapy S=speech therapy SW=social work I=home infusion therapy Licensing: Home health care agencies are licensed annually by the Arizona Department of Health Services. Medicare Certified: Required when the agency offers skilled nursing care. The agency is subject to a federal inspection in order to offer Medicare-reimbursed treatment. Accreditation: If yes, the accrediting organization could be CARF or JCAHO. Certifications: CNA=certified nurses assistant LPN=licensed practical nurse RN=registered nurse T=therapists CC=certified caregiver EMT=emergency medical technician.
16
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