Dec 19, 2024 · Despite renewed attention, pregnancy and childbirth still deadly across Arizona. The rate of women in Arizona who died during or after pregnancy nearly tripled from 1999 to 2019, with the most dramatic increases among the state’s minority populations: Native American mothers died at more than triple the rate of their white counterparts in 2019, while Black maternal deaths occurred at a rate ...

2 days ago · Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the scheme. At least 40 Native American residents of sober living homes and treatment facilities in the ...

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Brandon Quester is the founder, executive director and editor of the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. In a short time and with limited resources, he built AZCIR into an award-winning newsroom, becoming a regional hub for original and collaborative accountability journalism that is best known for its deep reporting on important public policy issues in Arizona and the Southwest.

Mar 14, 2024 · In the 10 months since Arizona officials announced an investigation into massive Medicaid billing fraud, they’ve maintained the abuse was mostly limited to a small share of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System: behavioral health providers that exploited the agency’s fee-for-service plans.

Jun 17, 2024 · In Arizona, pregnancy death rates nearly tripled from 1999 to 2019, with the most dramatic increases among women of color.

Oct 20, 2022 · La Paz County Sheriff | William Ponce. Status: Not a constitutional sheriff Ponce is a member of Protect America Now, who describes himself as a “constitutional sheriff.” Ponce said he was more comfortable being a member of the organization instead of being affiliated with the CSPOA, because CSPOA is a “bit more forceful” in “their …

Dec 20, 2024 · In 2019, federal officials dedicated more than $2 million to Arizona’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee as part of a national effort to confront alarmingly high rates of maternal deaths. The funding came with a mandate: Strengthen Arizona’s process for analyzing the cases of women who die during and shortly after pregnancy, and …

Dec 19, 2024 · The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide, data-driven investigative reporting.

Apr 23, 2024 · To understand the growth of active farmland and groundwater declines in the Douglas basin, AZCIR analyzed data from local and state agencies, including the Arizona Department of Water Resources, as well as satellite data compiled by federal agencies such as the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) The analysis used satellite raster data, or data with an ...