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• Watch our new TV PSA about the need for foster homes, filmed in Bethel and Eek
  
• Alert: Suspending Inflation Adjustments for Medicaid Rates in SFY 2017

• 7/1/16 - Senior Benefits payment changes fact sheet ​

  7/1/16 - Information on State of Alaska Heating Assistance Program FY2017 budget changes.

• 7/1/16 - Public Health Nursing is experiencing some changes due to budget challenges. 
  

• Medicaid in Alaska Dashboard
• View the Healthy Alaska website to learn more about Medicaid expansion and reform.
• REPORT:  Medicaid Redesign Final Report Released —
  Jan 22, 2016

Press releases

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• 9/20 Pilot projects will link school nurses to health info for students with complex health care needs, & improve breast cancer screening for women
  
• 9/15 Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility closing today
  
• 9/8 2016 Helathy Alaskan 2020 Scorecard shows project is on track to reach health-improvement goals
  
• 9/1 Alaska receives federal funding to combat opioid addiction, misuse and overdose
  
• 8/15 DHSS to close Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility
  
• 7/22 Midwest man tests positive for Zika virus while working in Alaska
• 7/5 DHSS names first Alaska hospital to demonstrate ability to receive Ebola patient
  
• 6/14 State officials pleased with new regulations to protect Native children​​
• 3/31 April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in Alaska “Go blue” on April 1 to raise awareness about abuse
• 3/2 State and Tribe to Sign Tribal Title IV-E Maintenance Agreement Additional Funding to Expand Tribal Child Welfare
  
• 1/8 Alaska pediatric program names first hospital to meet its emergency pediatric care criteria

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• Alaska Opioid Policy Task Force​
• "Spice" Synthetic Marijuana Health Information
• Alaska State Plan for Senior Services, FY 2016–FY 2019
  
• Get health insurance at healthcare.gov, or locally through the United Way (call 2-1-1 or 1-800-478-2221) and the Alaska Primary Care Association.
• Landmark Agreement: Tribal Title IV-E Maintenance Program. An agreement between: the State of Alaska & TCC
• Healthy Alaskans 2020
• Notice of Privacy Practices
• Alaska Health Care Commission
• Health Information Technologies and Meaningful Use
• Alaska Scorecard: Key Issues Impacting Alaska Mental Health Trust Beneficiaries
• Informed Consent
• Grants & Contracts
• Emergency Preparedness
• Alaska Directives for Health Care — Living Will
• Payment Error Rate Measure (PERM)
• Certificate of Need
• Department Safety Plan
• Safe Surrender Act: Guidance on who may be called upon to accept a surrendered infant