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The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services is an agency within the government of Alaska, headquartered in Juneau. Divisions Alaska Division of Juvenile ...
Website. www.hhs.gov. The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the U.S. people and providing essential human services. Its motto is "Improving the health, safety, and well-being of America". [3]
State health agency. A state health agency (SHA), or state department of health, is a department or agency of the state governments of the United States focused on public health. The state secretary of health is a constitutional or at times a statutory official in several states of the United States. The position is the chief executive official ...
The Department of Health and Senior Services is responsible for managing and promoting all public health programs to improve life and wellness for Missourians. [1] They are responsible for maintaining programs to control and prevent disease; regulation and licensure of health and child care facilities; and programs designed to create safeguards and health resources for seniors and the state's ...
Providence Alaska Medical Center is Alaska's largest hospital by revenue and number of beds. [2] It has 401 beds, [1] 1190 nurses and more than 850 physicians on staff. It is often ranked the largest private employer in Alaska. [3] It is located at 3200 Providence Drive in Anchorage, Alaska, across the street from the main campus of the ...
Borealpox virus (BRPV) [1] (formerly Alaskapox virus; AKPV) [2] is a species of the Orthopoxvirus genus first documented in 2015 in Alaska, United States. [3] As of February 2024, there are seven reported cases of illness, one of which became fatal due to a weakened immune system. The first six cases occurred in Fairbanks North Star Borough and ...
On November 17, 2006, the Alaska House of Representatives voted 24–10 in favor of legislation ordering a non-binding referendum for a constitutional amendment to deny benefits to the same-sex partners of state employees. On November 20, the Alaska Senate passed the bill in a 12–3 vote, and Governor Sarah Palin signed it into law on December 20.
The government of Alaska in common with state and federal governments of the United States, has three branches of government: the executive, consisting of the Governor of Alaska and the state agencies; the state legislature consisting of two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate; and the judiciary consisting of the Supreme court and lower courts.