The 2008-2009 ECAP Campaign will begin on September 17, 2008, with a training workshop and luncheon for the solicitors at The Manning House. The theme for this year’s campaign is “Go for Gold,” in reference to the summer Olympics.

Bud Foster, News Anchor, Channel 13, will be a featured guest speaker, along with Coach Peter Hughes, Head Coach Wheelchair Track and Juniors Active in Wheelchair Sports (JAWS), in the Disability Resource Center at the University of Arizona. more

Rethinking Restraints—a Success Story from Posada del Sol

Pat Wilson, Administrator at Posada del Sol Health Care Center and Lee Westfall, RN presented "Rethinking Restraints—A Success Story" August 28th, 2008, at the annual America Health Care Associations Conference in Glendale, Arizona.

Posada del Sol Health Care Center is a 156-bed, dually-certified skilled nursing home and outpatient facility owned by Pima County and managed by Pima Health System. From the third quarter 2005 (Q3) to the second quarter of 2007 (Q2), Posada Del Sol achieved an improvement in the Physical Restraints Quality Measure, going from 26.5 percent of our patients restrained in Q3 2005 to 0.00 percent in Q2 2007.more

Adopt-a-Roadway in its 16th Year

The Adopt-a-Roadway Program is in its sixteenth year of operation with a strong base of volunteers numbering approximately 300 groups or individuals. Each volunteer group is asked to clean its assigned segment of road twice each year for two years. The program saves the county cleaning costs of about $200.00 per mile.

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An enthusiastic Adopt-a-Roadway volunteer shoulders his haul.

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