Alaska News

Check out Alaska Dept. of Health & Social Services' newsletter

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services' biannual newsletter, Summer Update 2013, is now available online. (Our external newsletters are no longer being mailed in hard copy.)

This issue has more than two dozen health-related news items of interest to our partners, providers, stakeholders and others who follow our department's accomplishments:

Ketchikan mystery

Foster kids' transition

Health records online

Health care waste

Info exchange kudo

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New MMIS readies

Governor message

Commissioner message

Leadership changes

New health insurance

Foster parent video

DJJ renovations

News briefs

DHSS 'STARS'

Vaccinations important

Play Every Day update

Trauma care

Psychology internship

ChildFirst state

Child abuse partnership

Senior tide coming

Senior housing needs

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Alcohol, drugs cost

Suicide prevention update

New EIS system

TANF news

Rating child care

Check it out at: http://dhss.alaska.gov/Documents/Publications/2013_DHSS_SU.pdf

DHSS press release

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