Adam Crum
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• Alaska State Plan for Senior Services, FFY2020-FFY2023:The roadmap that guides the provision of senior services over the next four year.
  
• Alaska Psychiatric Institute Meets CMS Certification Requirements; Major milestone secures ability to continue to receive federal funds.  
• Forensic Psychiatric Hospital Feasibility Study Phase II Final Report released July 31, 2019; This project was designed to identify challenges facing the forensic psychiatric system and to issue feasible recommendations for improvement to that system.
  
• Alaska’s new health care price transparency law (AS 18.23.400) went into effect January 2019. However, the State of Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services will allow health care providers and facilities more time to comply with the law as regulations are still being developed. The law requires health care providers and facilities to post the prices of their most common procedures. 
• DHSS Southcentral earthquake page for information to assist Alaskans as recovery efforts continue from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake reported between Palmer and Anchorage at 8:29 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, and the thousands of aftershocks. 
• Alaska's Smokefree Workplace Law went into effect October 1, 2018. Go to smokefree.alaska.gov​ for more information.
  
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• 12/6 State report compiles vital statistic data on births, deaths, marriages and divorces
  
• 12/03 Alaska reports its first case of EVALI
  
• 10/11 Health officials prepare medical response to opioid enforcement action
  
• 10/8 Alaska again has extremely high per capita rankings for STD rates
  
• 9/5 CMS approval of 1115 waiver paves the way for more behavioral health treatment options for Alaskans
•  8/5 (Governor Dunleavy Press Release) Federal Regulators: Alaska Psychiatric Institute Meets CMS Certification Requirements
• 7/24 Paralytic shellfish poisoning suspected on the Alaska Peninsula
• 7/18 Comprehensive Mental Health Plan for Alaska Finalized
• 7/16 Measles case confirmed in Alaska
  
• 7/10 Know the health risks of wildfire smoke and take precautions during air advisories
  
• 6/26 Alaskans should know the health risks when harvesting shellfish

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