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Agency for older adults and people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
In 2022, the Administration for Community Living provided more than 261 million meals to older adults, assistance such as ...
Trump administration to shutter San Francisco HHS office amid sweeping health agency layoffs
The U.S. Health and Human Services Department’s San Francisco regional office will be shuttered this spring amid a broad culling of jobs at federal health agencies. The office, located in the Speaker ...
McKnight's Long-Term Care News21d
Massive HHS layoffs, consolidation efforts include closure of CMS regional offices
“Cutting the staff responsible for carrying out agency and department ... on the office closure policy, per its Federal Register publication. A fact sheet provided by HHS said human resources ...
Government Executive2d
White House pitches layoffs, local office closures and program eliminations at USDA
The Trump administration is planning to severely scale back or outright eliminate funding for many programs across the ...
Washington Examiner24d
HHS to close long COVID office as part of agency reorganization
The Department of Health and Human Services is closing its office focused on long COVID. The department said closing the office was part of an agency reorganization effort. “We are writing to ...
JD Supra24d
U.S. HHS Announces Closure of Six Regional Locations of the Office of the General Counsel
As part of the impact of these closures ... the same geographic support for regional HHS offices,” the announcement does not indicate how the agency support will be redirected or redistributed ...
USA Today27d
Special education experts worry about students with disabilities post-Education Department
On Friday, Trump clarified that special education will be handled by the Department of Health and Human Services. That agency currently oversees Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ...
RFK Jr., intent to focus on chronic disease, continues to be dogged by impacts of HHS cuts
Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a ...
Mental health and substance use organizations respond to HHS staffing cuts
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has begun laying off thousands of employees as part of a significant restructuring effort. Thousands of federal health employees, including doctors, ...
HHS Seattle office closes, Head Start staff placed on leave
Hundreds of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS ... Khan with Public Health - Seattle and King County said the ...
USA Today9d
Head Start providers in Wisconsin scramble to figure out what's next after regional office closure
She also said that, at the time, there had been no communication from the Department of Health and Human Services about the closures. As of April 7 ... a private nonprofit community action agency that ...
Morningstar21d
Agency for older adults and people with disabilities to be shuttered under HHS cuts
Former head of agency sees the closure of the Administration for Community Living as an attack on vulnerable populations With the announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that ...