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Selected HHS Blog Posts

A Healthier Nation Thanks to Health Centers

August 11, 2016

By: Mary K. Wakefield, Ph.D., RN, HHS Acting Deputy Secretary

1 in every 13 people in the country receives care through a health center funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration.

Posted In: 

Health Care | Holidays and Observances

Tagged: 

National Health Center Week | health centers

Seeing Better Care in Ohio, Iowa and Florida

August 9, 2016

By: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, HHS Secretary

My visits to these states offered a clear view of the better health care system we’re trying to build at HHS.

Posted In: 

Affordable Care Act | Health Care

Tagged: 

delivery system reform | diabetes | rural health

Posting a Success with Diabetes Prevention

August 5, 2016

By: Richard Maudsley, Parma, Ohio

Spoiler alert: I’ve lost 100 pounds in less than a year. My doctor even reduced my blood pressure medication because it had gotten so much better.

Posted In: 

Affordable Care Act | Health Care

Tagged: 

delivery system reform | diabetes | blood pressure

Determination and Coordinated Care Gave Me My Life Back

July 28, 2016

By: Wil Floyd, Jacksonville, Florida

All of my health care providers consulted with each other frequently and with me. They included me in the decision process.

Posted In: 

Affordable Care Act | Health Care

Tagged: 

delivery system reform

HHS Innovation Day: Innovation is a Force For Good

July 27, 2016

By: Susannah Fox, Chief Technology Officer of HHS

We need innovation to help transform health and health care for the better and for all.

Posted In: 

Health Data | HHS Administrative

Tagged: 

innovation

A 100-day challenge to end youth homelessness in three cities

July 27, 2016

By: Rafael López, Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families

The 100-Day Challenge will help catalyze community action to establish bold, creative, and innovative ways to help homeless youth find stable housing.

Posted In: 

Programs for Families and Children

Tagged: 

homeless | families

Faith and Community Leaders Play Powerful Roles with Minority Mental Health

July 26, 2016

By: Acacia Bamberg Salatti, Director, Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships and Sherry L. Blake, Clinical Psychologist

The reality is that many minority individuals and families in America currently struggle with mental illness.

Posted In: 

Holidays and Observances | Mental Health and Substance Abuse

Tagged: 

African American

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Zika Virus

July 25, 2016

By: Sylvia Mathews Burwell, HHS Secretary

The biggest risk of Zika virus is to pregnant women or women of childbearing age.

Posted In: 

Public Health and Safety

Tagged: 

Zika | women's health

#RefugeesWelcome: Cooking up a New Life in Boise

July 21, 2016

By: Kibrom Milash, Boise, Idaho

To live in the United States is just like heaven for us. We have electricity, we have a car and we have freedom, especially so we can work.

Posted In: 

Programs for Families and Children

Tagged: 

Refugees Welcome | World Refugee Day

Increasing Medicaid and Medicare Enrollment is an IHS Priority

July 20, 2016

By: Mary Smith, Principal Deputy Director, Indian Health Service

IHS is working with partners to offer enrollment assistance training and host on-site enrollment events at the six health facilities in four states.

Posted In: 

Medicare and Medicaid

Tagged: 

American Indian/Alaska Native