Arizona recorded 5 nurse deactivations in the NPI registry during the week of Aug. 24 through Aug. 30, 2026, accounting for 8% of the national total. The update includes 5 individuals and 0 organizations, so all recorded changes involved individual nurse providers rather than organizational entities. NPI deactivation is an administrative status change in the federal registry and does not, by itself, establish a licensing action or confirm that a provider has stopped practicing.
Credentials and Locations
Family Nurse Practitioner was the leading retired taxonomy, with 2 records. Registered Nurse, Ambulatory Care Registered Nurse and Licensed Practical Nurse each appeared in 1 record. The credential mix therefore spans advanced practice, general registered nursing, ambulatory care and practical nursing roles, with the largest category accounting for 40% of Arizona’s total. The remaining three taxonomies each represented 20% of the state’s records.
The five records were distributed across Scottsdale, Tucson, Laveen, Winslow and Phoenix, with 1 deactivation in each city. No city accounted for more than another, so the update does not show a concentrated geographic pattern. The spread across metropolitan and smaller Arizona communities instead describes a geographically dispersed set of registry changes, although the NPI data alone cannot indicate local workforce effects or service availability.
Registry Context
Arizona’s weekly entry captures a small, individually recorded set of nurse NPI status changes across several credentials and locations. Because CMS removes most identifying details from deactivated records, the registry should be read as an administrative workforce signal rather than a direct measure of active practice, departures or patient access.
