PHIT™ for Maricopa County — What a CHIP Dashboard Should Do

The same tile, two ways

Substance Use is the priority with the clearest gap. Left: the overdose tile exactly as the county's current dashboard renders it. Right: the same indicator on the PHIT Score Card, using the county's own published surveillance data.

Current dashboard · mySidewalk

Drug Overdose Death

No data

Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people

Maricopa County, AZ

37.5

Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people

Arizona

Sources: CDC WONDER Cause of Death 2020-2024 Age Adj

What a reader learns: nothing about Maricopa. No trend (the "Over Time" chart never loads), no U.S. figure, no target, no rank, no breakdown, no next step. This is the county's most urgent priority.

PHIT™ Score Card

Drug overdose deaths

age-adjusted per 100,000 residents · Maricopa County · 2024

32.1per 100k · 1,500 deaths↓ 15.7% since 2021

Maricopa32.1

Arizona37.5

United States31.3

HP2030 target (SU-03)20.7

Below Arizona · above the U.S. · 55% above the HP2030 target

Real

Source: MCDPH Overdose Surveillance 2020–2024 · AZ: CDC WONDER · U.S.: CDC 2023 · HP2030 SU-03 · fentanyl in 59%, methamphetamine in 67% of 2024 deaths

🔍 By substance · by ZIP · treatment capacity (210 facilities, 75.2% offer medication) →

Dr. Rob: Deaths are falling four years running, but Maricopa is still 55% above the Healthy People target. Do this: make "facilities added to Community Cares" the outcome number on this panel, quarterly.

Side by side, feature by feature

We walked every page of the current dashboard — five priority pages, five goal pages, the story and resources pages — on September 2, 2026. This is what a reader gets on each platform.

What a Health Director needs	Current CHIP dashboard (mySidewalk)	PHIT™ Score Card
Comparison	Maricopa vs. Arizona. That is the only benchmark on any tile.	Arizona + U.S. + Healthy People 2030 target on every headline, so "is this number good?" has an answer.
Rank	None. No peer counties, no quartile.	Rank among Arizona's 15 counties and 3,100+ U.S. counties, computed live from the PHIT feed, plus a peer-metro strip (Clark, Bexar, Harris, San Diego, Salt Lake, King, Miami-Dade, Pima).
Trend	One working time series (homelessness). Overdose "Over Time" chart stuck on "Loading." Everything else is a point-in-time number.	Trend line with a target line on every headline that has a series; a stated direction and period on the rest.
Data currency	Food-access figures are USDA 2019. No indication anywhere that a number is stale.	Every tile carries its source and year. Stale data is flagged "Refresh due" — shown, not hidden.
Overdose deaths	"No data" for Maricopa County.	1,500 deaths · 32.1 per 100k (2024), five-year series, fentanyl/meth share — from MCDPH's own surveillance page.
Disparity inside the county	A choropleth with a legend (7.1%–33.7% for poor mental health) and nothing that says which neighborhoods.	Tract spread stated on the panel; drill to ZIP and tract with CHIP partner sites overlaid.
CHIP goals vs. outcomes	On a separate page. Process indicators ("completion of strategic meetings") with status pills. No outcome is tied to a number that moves.	Goal tracker on the same panel as the outcome, with a stated "outcome it should move" target for every objective.
Breakdowns (sex, age, race)	Collapsed accordions; several spin on "Loading" and never render.	Cohort splits wired to the same feed; every split keeps its comparison and source.
Coaching / interpretation	None. Narrative paragraphs only.	Dr. Rob and Coach Lucy on every panel — what the number means and what to do — plus the Clipboard walkthrough.
Community engagement	Generate PDF. Share to social.	LEARN It / SHARE It Coins, progress tracking, partner activations, and a Network of schools, employers and residents who can act on the priorities.
Navigation	Long-scroll narrative pages, table-of-contents sidebar.	Vertical priority rail with live status, at-a-glance scoreboard, jump-to menu, every page a way back.
Reusability	One dashboard, one county, one vendor.	One codebase. The same stamp mints for Pima, Pinal, Yavapai — or any of 3,100+ counties — in a day.

"No data" is a choice

Three things the current dashboard leaves out that the county already publishes or that PHIT already carries.

1,500overdose deaths in Maricopa County in 2024 (32.1 per 100k, down from 38.1 in 2021) — published by MCDPH, shown as "No data" on the CHIP dashboard.

9,734people counted on January 27, 2025 — a record, with unsheltered up 28%. The dashboard still shows the 2023 HUD figure of 9,642.

3,121U.S. counties in the PHIT feed, so Maricopa's uninsured, depression and checkup rates carry a national rank the moment the page loads.

4.7×spread in frequent mental distress across Maricopa census tracts (7.1% → 33.7%). The county-wide 16.3% hides it; PHIT drills to it.

What Maricopa gets in 30 days

The Score Card you can open today is the first stamp. This is the path from demo to the county's CHIP reporting platform.

Wire the county's own sources

MCDPH overdose surveillance, MAG PIT count, AHCCCS enrollment, ODMAP nonfatal responses, Feeding America — each one a live tile with provenance.

Every indicator: source, year, refresh cadence

Goal tracker the partners update

Interest holders log process indicators from their phone; the outcome panel shows whether the curve is bending. No more volunteer momentum problem.

SHARE It Coins for partner updates

Drill to ZIP and tract

PLACES tract layer, ACS ZIP splits, partner-site overlays — so "Community-Based Education" gets addresses, not a county average.

900+ Maricopa tracts ranked

Coach-hosted, Network-connected

Dr. Rob and Coach Lucy in the Clipboard; schools, employers and residents earning coins for CHIP actions; a Maricopa Chamber of Health group behind the sign-in.

The dashboard becomes a platform

See it with your own priorities on it.

Five CHIP priorities, twelve indicators, every one with a comparison, a rank, a trend, a source and a coach. Open it, then open the Clipboard and ask Dr. Rob anything on the page.

Open the Maricopa CHIP Score Card →