Check out our live tweet from January’s HHS Legislative Oversight Committee Meeting. Sect. Cansler made some powerful remarks at the close of the meeting.
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| January 25th, 2012 | by Clarissa Goodlett |
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Department Waiver Advisory Committee Meetings |
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| January 25th, 2012 | by Clarissa Goodlett |
Below are the scheduled dates for the Department Waiver Advisory Committee meetings for 2012. Meetings for 2012 will be held monthly at McKimmon Center (on the campus of NC State in Raleigh) from 1-3 pm. Information will be posted on the DMA and DMHDDSA websites.
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HHS Legislative Oversight Committee Meeting Schedule |
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| January 25th, 2012 | by Clarissa Goodlett |
LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON Click Here to download the complete HHS LOC meeting schedule (thru May 2012):
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Shifts on for state health agency |
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| January 25th, 2012 | by Clarissa Goodlett |
From the News and Observer.com 1.19.12 The large and complex state Department of Health and Human Services is getting a new leader in a few weeks, and as usual for that agency, big projects are under way and big problems are unresolved. The state is in negotiations with the U.S. Department of Justice over its reliance on assisted living and adult care homes as housing for people with mental illness. The Perdue administration is in a fight with the state legislature on how to close a Medicaid budget hole. And DHHS is appealing a federal court decision on personal care services that is adding millions to Medicaid’s obligations. At the end of this month, Lanier Cansler will hand control of DHHS to Al Delia, Gov. Bev Perdue’s senior adviser for policy. DHHS, with 17,000 employees, is one of the state’s largest agencies. It oversees public health, mental health, inspects adult care homes, and manages Medicaid, the state and federal health insurance program for the poor and disabled. Cansler said he is leaving without a job but plans to do some consulting. He started talking to Perdue in November about leaving DHHS, he said. A state audit critical of his department’s handling of a Medicaid claims computer contract, which is over budget and overdue, was formally released this month. In an interview Wednesday, Cansler again defended the department against the audit’s findings but said the audit is not why he’s going. The audit was under way but not finished when Cansler first talked to Perdue about leaving DHHS. Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/01/19/1788432/shifts-on-for-health-agency.html?story_link=email_msg#storylink=cpy |
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DHHS leadership changes |
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| January 25th, 2012 | by Clarissa Goodlett |
From News and Observer blog 1.24.12 Gov. Bev Perdue announced the merger of two divisions within the state Department of Health and Human Services and DHHS leadership changes. The Division of Public Health and the Office of Rural Health and Community Care are merging. Dr. Laura Gerald, former head of the Health and Wellness Trust Fund, will be the new state health director and run the Division of Prevention, Access and Public Health Services. She is the former director of the Health and Wellness Trust Fund, and led Perdue’s Eugenics Compensation Task Force. After the legislature dissolved the Health and Wellness Trust Fund, Gerald went to work as a temporary adviser to DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler on Community Care of North Carolina. Dr. Jeff Engel, public health director, will become a special adviser on health policy, reporting to new DHHS secretary Al Delia. Engel has been public health director since 2009. |
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