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The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is the health department of Maine headquartered in Augusta, Maine, that provides public assistance, child and family welfare services, and oversees health policy and management. [1] It is the largest executive branch department in Maine, employing over 3,000 people. [1]
Under Gov. Mills and the leadership at DHHS, Maine has made solid investments in children and families, supporting them in ways that should lessen abuse and neglect in the coming years.
In December 2018, Lambrew was nominated to serve as Commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services by Governor-elect Janet Mills. [1] She resigned in 2024 to become the Director of Health Care Reform at the Century Foundation and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. [2]
Maine Community Health Options v. United States , 590 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case involving the expired Risk Corridors program of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), through which the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) mitigated losses of unprofitable healthcare plans through the profits ...
(The Center Square) – Maine will be required to expand community and home-based behavioral health services for youth under an agreement between the state and the U.S. Department of Justice that ...
The Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission, also known as the MWTRC, [1] was a commission looking at events relating to Wabanaki children and families from 1978, when the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was passed, until now. The Commission was officially established on February 12, 2012 and issued its final ...
Toby Fischer lives in South Dakota, where just 27 doctors are certified to prescribe buprenorphine -- a medication that blunts the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and opioid painkillers. A Huffington Post analysis of government data found nearly half of all counties in America don't have such a certified physician. So every month, Fischer and his mother drive to Colorado to pick up their ...
Mary Mayhew (born 1965) is an American lobbyist, former Maine commissioner of Health and Human Services and candidate for Governor of Maine in 2018. [1] A lobbyist for hospitals prior to her appointment as Commissioner by Republican Governor Paul LePage, Mayhew spent more than six years pursuing conservative welfare policies.