As the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services assists Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties in their response to a case of Hepatitis A in a food handler, it is important to remind people to always take precautions when preparing food, whether at home or at a restaurant.
Published: Wednesday, April 16th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services (VR), which provides counseling, training, education, transportation, job placement and other support services to people with physical, psychiatric and intellectual disabilities, is seeking public input.
Published: Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Secretary Aldona Wos announced today that, despite last week's revelation of an additional 8,100 cases in Guilford County, DHHS is optimistic that the state and counties have reasonably achieved the USDA's March 31 milestone.
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos held a late afternoon conference call with legislators to provide an update on NC FAST regarding the status of compliance with the USDA standards for Food and Nutrition Services (food stamps).
Published: Friday, March 21st, 2014 @ 8:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) today presented its Medicaid reform plan to the General Assembly.
Published: Tuesday, March 18th, 2014 @ 2:55 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Skeptics of the Medicaid reform plan announced in February by the McCrory administration are wary of using a relatively untested framework of what are known as accountable care organizations to administer and deliver Medicaid services.
Published: Wednesday, March 12th, 2014 @ 6:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is currently presenting a framework to reform the N.C. Medicaid program to the Medicaid Reform Advisory Group.
Published: Thursday, February 27th, 2014 @ 11:36 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Politicians don't get to choose the crises they face while in office but they can choose how they will react to them. Their responses often determine both their tenure in office and how history judges them.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In the letter (attached), the USDA acknowledges the significant progress the state has made toward reducing the remaining outstanding cases.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2014 @ 1:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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As Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos places a top deputy temporarily in charge of the state's beleaguered Medicaid system, state Auditor Beth Wood has launched a cost and performance study of the nonprofit entity overseeing much of Medicaid, the joint federal/state...
Published: Tuesday, February 18th, 2014 @ 12:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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DHHS today announced contracts with two leading service firms - Alvarez and Marsal and Navigant Healthcare - to support the Division of Medical Assistance (DMA) as it continues its work to improve and strengthen operations of the North Carolina Medicaid program.
Published: Wednesday, February 12th, 2014 @ 11:58 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today's updated numbers show that North Carolina continues to make significant progress toward meeting federal requirements for processing FNS (food stamp) applications and recertifications.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014 @ 5:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Counties across North Carolina continue to make headway toward the February 10 goal for eliminating backlogs of FNS (food stamp), with more than 1,100 additional applications processed on Tuesday.
Published: Sunday, February 9th, 2014 @ 11:03 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new audit report calls into question nearly $4.9 million in spending by Four-County Community Services, a nonprofit organization that runs Head Start programs and provides other assistance to low-income families in seven southeastern North Carolina counties.
Published: Saturday, February 8th, 2014 @ 2:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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With just days remaining until the USDA's February 10 deadline, the backlog of FNS cases (food stamps) has dropped by 92.5 percent since January 23.
Published: Friday, February 7th, 2014 @ 10:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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State and county workers across North Carolina have reduced the backlog of FNS cases (food stamps) by just over 72 percent in the last 10 days, ensuring benefits for thousands of families.
Published: Tuesday, February 4th, 2014 @ 12:44 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This is an update on DHHS' most recent interaction with USDA.
Published: Sunday, January 26th, 2014 @ 11:10 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday outlined the goals for his second year in office, which include increasing teacher pay, fast-tracking fracking, and calling on the General Assembly to embrace his wife's top project - enacting puppy mill legislation.
Published: Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 @ 4:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory discussed new and ongoing initiatives to power the economy, improve education and increase state government efficiency in 2014 during a news conference Monday at the Executive Residence with his cabinet.
Published: Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014 @ 4:40 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The liars in the remnants of our state's mainstream media would have you believe state government was working like a charm prior to the January 2013 inauguration of Republican governor Pat McCrory.
Published: Sunday, January 12th, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Today, Department of Health and Human Services Acting Medicaid Director Sandra Terrell released the following information regarding the incorrect mailing of 48,752 Medicaid cards to the wrong addresses.
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2014 @ 1:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Secretary Aldona Wos announced today that for the first time since the State Employees Combined Campaign began in 1985, the leadership team of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services has achieved 100 percent participation.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 @ 12:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos today released the product of a departmental work group established immediately following the abrupt closure of several adult care facilities early this year.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 11:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCroy proclaimed November 21, 2013 as Rural Health Day in North Carolina, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Rural Health and Community Care
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 @ 6:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory and DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos deserve credit for trying to sort out and find solutions to our Mental Health program. North Carolina's 2001 mental health "reforms" have been a disaster and the McCrory administration is the first to seriously address them.
Published: Thursday, November 21st, 2013 @ 12:00 am
By: Tom Campbell
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On Thursday, November 7th, DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos announced the McCrory Administration's Crisis Solutions Initiative, a new statewide effort to improve mental health and substance abuse crisis services in North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 @ 9:05 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory has named three North Carolina health care leaders to the state's newly formed Medicaid Reform Advisory Group.
Published: Friday, November 1st, 2013 @ 5:17 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Governor Pat McCrory approved releasing $750,000 from state funds today for the seven regional food banks that are part of the North Carolina Association of Feeding America's Food Banks. This early allocation of funds will help food banks stock up in the coming weeks.
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 12:42 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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WRAL's Mark "Binky" Binker - Cagney to Laura Leslie's Lacey - has had the North Carolina political world atwitter over his reporting about DHHS Secretary Aldona Wos' recent appearance before a legislative committee.
Published: Thursday, October 17th, 2013 @ 2:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Hidden agendas can be dangerous, particularly when the goal is to influence public opinion with political attacks in the guise of impartial journalism. Recently, a supposedly "independent, not-for-profit news organization" has stepped into the public arena.
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 @ 5:22 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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You've gotta love this civility, peace and love crowd. When they ran things into the ground in Raleigh, they frequently shut down GOP and conservative protests by lecturing about the need for "civility."
Published: Tuesday, October 15th, 2013 @ 2:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Secretary Aldona Wos announced today that the Department of Health and Human Services has secured additional funds to continue the WIC program as of October 11, 2013.
Published: Saturday, October 12th, 2013 @ 12:27 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new state audit slams a former child care provider for setting up a front company to avoid sanctions.
Published: Saturday, September 21st, 2013 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I've been watching politics in this state for quite some time and I CANNOT recall any prior administration in Raleigh having its appointees subjected to such invasive public scrutiny.
Published: Thursday, September 19th, 2013 @ 3:38 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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