The Force for Health® Network already built what ACE is trying to create: a modular, shared-source technology layer with structured pilots and transparent evaluation baked in — ready to be co-deployed across ADHS, AHCCCS, ABOR, the AZ Community College Coordinating Council, ADE, DES, Tribal Health, and more, for a fraction of the cost of each agency standing up its own.
Gov. Hobbs announced the Arizona Capacity & Efficiency Initiative on March 10, 2026 with a $100M savings target by FY2029 — without layoffs. ACE is built on three pillars. FFH has already built the modular infrastructure that serves all three — plus a fourth outcome ACE didn’t ask for but will absolutely take credit for.
The pillars above deliver on the $100M goal. These two dividends are the political and financial upside Amy brings back to the Governor’s desk — and with Dividend 5, a genuine Win-Win-Win: agencies, citizens, and the state budget all benefit from the same partnership.
Companies follow nimble, innovative public-sector leadership. Every health-literate family cuts absenteeism, ED utilization, and talent flight. Arizona becomes more attractive to employers the same year it becomes measurably healthier. Workforce health = workforce capacity = economic growth.
FFH isn’t just an internal software tool your agencies use. Under a public-private partnership, Arizona can extend statewide access, reach every rooftop, and reinvest the prevention dividend — creating a self-sustaining loop that improves every year it runs.
Amy ran GovEx — the Bloomberg Center for Government Excellence at Johns Hopkins — where she grew GovEx Academy to 10,000+ trained public-sector leaders, launched City AI Connect (460+ cities, 47 countries, Fast Company World-Changing Idea), and led What Works Cities data-practice standards. FFH is building exactly this playbook — but for population health instead of city management.
Coach Lucy Howell sold federal-grade data to the Top 10 U.S. banks, largest debt buyers, and the FDIC & NCUA for whole-loan portfolio asset trades a decade before the DATA Act standardized it. Dr. Robert Gillio testified on rural health disparities at the state and national level, helped build the 9/11 First Responders Registry, and led clinical protocols through Hurricane Katrina. Both landed in population health for the same reason: real solutions, measured, scaled, and trusted — with federal, market, and clinical discipline at one table.
Both leaders built their careers solving for underserved, rural, data-starved communities. Now both operate at national scale — and Arizona is where their missions converge.
The PHIT (Population Health Information & Technology) Hub is the shared-source engine. Each gear is a module any ACE-partner agency can deploy independently — or combine — with role-based dashboards, shared KPIs, and one unified reporting layer across ADHS, AHCCCS, ABOR, the AZ Community College Coordinating Council, ADE, DES, Tribal Health, and beyond.
The research is settled: upstream prevention, health literacy, and community activation return $6 to $38 for every $1 spent, depending on which levers are pulled. FFH is the delivery mechanism — at a per-capita cost that fits comfortably inside the ACE savings target.
Arizona doesn't have to choose between saving money, building capacity, and investing in the future. The best-case scenario does all three at once — and leaves the state with equity in a growing, Arizona-based innovation company.
PHIT Systems and the modular gears are deployed as a shared-source resource across 18 agency roles — customized per agency, unified at the data-hub layer. Replaces 18 separate tech stacks. Immediate cost containment that maps directly to ACE Pillar 1 (Save Money) and Pillar 2 (Simplify).
The same platform investment feeds directly into prevention — health literacy, early detection, community activation. At $1–$3/head with a 6:1–38:1 documented ROI range, the state's downstream Medicaid/AHCCCS savings outpace the platform cost many times over.
FFH is an Arizona-based, late-stage innovative startup (Delaware C-Corp). One pathway to long-term sustainability: the State, the Arizona Board of Regents, and the AZ Community College Coordinating Council (22 colleges) co-anchor a sidecar fund — aligning the platform's growth with Arizona's workforce and economic-development goals. (Details for a second conversation.)
Each agency or quasi-agency partner activates only the roles it needs. All 18 roles share the same PHIT Hub, the same CRM, the same project manager, and the same reporting layer — so cross-agency rollups and joint campaigns work on Day 1.
Every ACE-partner region ships with a pre-populated Top 100 leadership list, a Top 20 list across the 5 sectors (Education, Healthcare, Public, Private, Non-Profit/Human Services), and a fully-seeded CRM of targets and contacts. No cold-start. No discovery phase. On Day 1 every agency has its regional workspace loaded with real people, real relationships, real reporting.
| Region | Counties | Population | Edu | Health | Public | Private | Non-Profit | Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rural North | Apache · Coconino · Navajo | ~250K | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 100 |
| Rural East | Gila · Graham · Greenlee | ~85K | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 100 |
| Rural West | La Paz · Mohave · Yuma | ~380K | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 100 |
| Rural South | Cochise · Santa Cruz | ~150K | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 100 |
| Transitional | Pinal · Yavapai | ~450K | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 100 |
| Metro Anchor | Maricopa · Pima | 5.5M+ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 100 |
| STATEWIDE | All 15 Counties | 7.4M+ | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 600 |
ACE succeeds when Arizona's agencies stop standing up 22 parallel tech stacks and start sharing one data layer, one CRM, and one campaign engine. FFH plugs directly into every agency below — with role-based dashboards, shared KPIs, and unified reporting at zip-code, county, and state levels.
FFH has already built and shipped a statewide white-label for a major Arizona partner — with the relationships, compliance posture, and healthcare integration to prove it. The ACE pilot scales that same architecture across the 22-agency partner map.
FFH built and deployed SCFA's statewide white-label platform, strengthening ties with AZ DHS newborn screening, multiple hospital systems, and SCFA's recent contract to develop the nurse training program for all of Banner Healthcare.
FFH's Omni-Media Producer coordinates video, podcast, social, broadcast, print, and digital storytelling into one campaign engine. Interactive community magazines reach every rural rooftop with QR-coded pages that bridge directly into digital resources, partner directories, incentives, and workforce pipelines — with source tracking on every asset.
One shared CRM, project manager, and data layer lets multiple agencies — state, county, school district, hospital, non-profit — work together on the same dashboard instead of emailing spreadsheets. Cross-agency rollups, shared KPIs, joint campaigns, and unified reporting surface outcomes at zip-code, county, and state levels.
FFH is not arriving at the ACE conversation — we're already co-leading the statewide taskforces, workforce accelerators, classroom technology networks, and tribal / rural / broadband coalitions that ACE needs in order to succeed. Each partnership below is live, active, and contributing to the same operating system being proposed.
From a former U.S. Surgeon General to the leaders of Arizona's broadband, rural-schools, disaster-medicine, and Red Cross networks — the FFH Advisory Network mirrors the partnership map above, so the people shaping strategy are the same people already doing the work in the field.
We're not pitching — we're proposing a structured pilot inside the Arizona Innovation Hub with transparent evaluation, at $1–$3 per Arizonan, across 18 shared roles and 22+ agency partners. Bloomberg playbook. DATA Act accountability. Appalachian roots. Arizona execution.