PacifiCare of Arizona, Inc history

Archives' photographs focus upon the unique cultural heritage of the state and territory of Arizona, beginning in 1863.

Presidential proclamations established the first forest reserves in Arizona and New Mexico in 1892.

He and Lowell settled on Flagstaff, and Lowell Observatory became an official institution in 1894.

The house is named after Alejandro Silva, who purchased the house in 1906 from a Phoenix liquor dealer, A.K.C. Kirchoff.

The earliest maps in this collection date back to 1907 with several of the first national forests in the state created by presidential proclamation.

With the arrival of hundreds of Industrial Workers of the World sympathizers in late June who were vowing to shut down all the copper mines from Montana to Mexico, the conflict intensified and culminated in a community action on July 12, 1917.

Of these magazines, none date as far back or have featured the iconic photography that has made Arizona Highways a national treasure. It serves as a model for a larger collection currently in development which will contain all of the Arizona Highways volumes from 1921 to present.

The Desert Sanatorium opened as a for-profit treatment center in 1924.

In 1930, the first Southwest All-Indian Pow-Wow came to Flagstaff.

The Phoenix Girl Scouts were formed into the Maricopa Girl Scout Council in 1936.

The site for Taliesin West was purchased by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1937 and minor site work and temporary construction was done by Wright and the Fellowship before their return to Wisconsin for the summer.

The Sharlot Hall Museum Oral History collection represents a cross-section of a larger collection of interviews, presentations, speeches and radio programs conducted mainly in Prescott, Arizona from 1939 to present.

The collection begins with the first yearbook published in 1951, as a tribute to the first five years of the American Institute for Foreign Trade and encompasses the first five graduating classes.

The Montezuma Castle Historic Photo Archive collection represents the history of Montezuma Castle National Monument, from its time before National Park Service control in the late nineteenth century, through the 1960's.

Cochise College first opened its doors for classes in 1964 and is proud to mark 50 years of service to Southeastern Arizona and the community it serves.

By 1968, the 50th Anniversary of Girl Scouting in Arizona, the Maricopa Girl Scout Council had grown into the Arizona Cactus-Pine Council (GS - ACPC) and covered the northern 2/3 of the state.

PacifiCare was founded as a nonprofit corporation by Samuel J. Tibbitts of the Lutheran Hospital Society of Southern California in 1975 and became a federally qualified health maintenance organization (HMO) three years later.

The 1977 interviews were part of a Northland Pioneer College project to document the history of the Northeastern Arizona region.

PacifiCare was incorporated in 1983 and, like many other HMOs, switched to for-profit status the following year.

The company made its initial public stock offering in May 1985, but less than 20 percent of its stock was actually sold to the public: 70 percent was held by UniHealth America (which had retained its non-profit status) and another 11 percent was owned by insiders.

Rapid growth compelled PacifiCare's move into a larger corporate headquarters in Cypress, California, in 1986.

PacifiCare signed on its 500,000th member, accomplished a two-for-one stock split, and made a successful public offering of 1.7 million shares in 1989.

The health care company increased its membership rolls by 18.7 percent and strengthened its California stronghold with the 1991 acquisition of one of the state's largest "independent physician association model" HMOs, Health Plan of America.

Mounting debt, which totaled nearly $200 million by the end of fiscal 1992 on September 30, compelled several changes in PacifiCare's stock.

The company was renamed PacifiCare Wellness Company in 1993.

Descriptions of the photos come from an index typed up by Rosamond Spicer in 1994, information she wrote on the back of prints, and from Tohono O'odham members.

The oral historian, Joyce McBride, began interviewing in September 2007, choosing Gila County because it uniquely represents every aspect of Arizona's culturally diverse history.

The first meeting was convened on April 7, 2008 at ITCA. It was determined that in order to develop a training tool, the existing court ordered treatment (COT) process for American Indians needed to be reviewed and the issues identified in order to focus training.

A second forum sponsored by ADHS/DBHS, designed for the RBHAs, was held on March 5, 2009 under the theme: The Involuntary Commitment Process for American Indians: Challenges and Solutions.

The work group, in conjunction with tribal stakeholders, developed and recommended strategic behavioral health system changes to improve access to and continuity of behavioral health care for American Indians at the State Wide Tribal Behavioral Health Forum held in the Winter of 2010.

In 2011, eleven CAMA museums joined the IMD May 18th celebration by offering free or reduced admissions, museum store discounts, and special performances.