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The Iowa Board of Social Welfare was founded in 1937 by the Iowa General Assembly. In 1967, it was merged with the Iowa Board of Control and Iowa Board of Parole to form the Iowa Department of Social Services. It was renamed the Iowa Department of Human Services in 1987. [1] In 2022, as part of Governor Reynold's State Agency Alignment ...
The governor's office, HHS and other supporters of the bill say the consolidation effort is a necessary step to address issues within Iowa's current system, which they say separates substance use ...
May 15, 2024 at 4:17 PM. CEDAR RAPIDS — Surrounded by health advocates, Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law Wednesday her plan to restructure behavioral health care and disability services in Iowa ...
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]
The United States Public Health Service ( USPHS or PHS) is a collection of agencies of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with public health, containing nine out of the department's twelve operating divisions. The Assistant Secretary for Health oversees the PHS. The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) is the ...
Advocates agree with Gov. Kim Reynolds: Iowa's badly fractured mental health system is in need of a major fix. But they say new legislation attempting to rework the system lacks the details they ...
The conditions of eligibility to the supplement and the amount vary between the different states. The amount of the SSP ranges from $10 to $400 depending on the state. In 2020, the maximum amount of the SSI is $783 per month for an eligible individual, and $1175 for an eligible couple. [3]
House File 2057 would remove the requirement for Iowa HHS to hire a third-party administrator to oversee and manage the network of pregnancy resource centers that receive state funding.