The Department of Health and Human Services Announced A Dramaatic Agency Transformation on Thursday that it said will streamline operations by consolidating 28 divisions Into 15 and Reducing Regional OFFICES FROMS 10 to FOMS.
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“The restructuring will address this and serve multiple goals without impacting critical services,” HHS SAID in a statement about making about making America healthy again.
Why it matters
As part of the restructuring, a new administration for a healthy america and will Centralize Core Functions, Including Human Resources, Information Technology, Procurement and Ex -Exferanel Affairs, HHS SAIDAIRS, HHHS statement,
“When combined with hhs’ other efforts, including early retirement and fork in the road, the restructuring results in a total downsizing from 82,000 to 62,000 to 62,000 full-time Emplooyes.”
The new aha division includes the office of the assistant secretary for health, health resources and services administration, substance abuse and mental health services administry, agency for toxic subsidies and toxic assistants Disease Registry and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response will be absorbed by the centers for disease for disease for the prevention, while HHS Will Merge the Assistant Secretary for Planning and evaluation with the evaluation Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and Create the New Office of Strategy to Direct Federal Health Programs.
The nation’s top health agency also said that the restructuring promises to make the agency more responsive and Efficiency and Ensure that Medicare, Medicaid and Other Essential Health Services Remain Intact.
Over time, agencies like HHS BECOME “wasteful and Ineficainant,” even thought “most of their staff are dedicated and commentant civil servants,” Kennedy said in the annualsment. “This department will do more – a lot more – at a lower cost to the taxpayer.”
Critical Programs, Including the Administration for Children and Families, The AFOREMENED ASPE ASPE ASPE and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be reorganized Under an administ.
We’ve reached out to the assistant secretary of technology policy about any changes to their staffing or operation and will update this story if there is a response.
The larger trend
Last month, HHS Fird Thousands of Employees across the agency, earlier the country’s second largest behind the department of defense.
Officials at a National Institutes of Health Department Meeting Had Expected Most of HHS ‘approximately 5,200 probationary employees’ jobs to be terminated. Layoffs at the centers for medicine and medicaid services and the food and drug administration also reported layoffs in the first few weeks of the Trump Administration.
HHS Layoffs Were Temporarily Reversed by a Federal Judge On March 13. The lawsuit, filed by a group of state attorneys general, reinstated all probationary employers in all federal departments, but many federal EmployEs were put only the administ leavy witrava Response.
In addition to Taking Early Retirement, Many Federal Employees, Including those those those at HHS WERED A ‘Fork in the Road Program,’ Who Resignation UNTIL SEPTIL SEPTIL SEPTIL SEPTEL SEPTEL SEPTEL SEPTELS Voluntarily department their jobs.
Overall, the new priority of a reorganized HHS under secretary kennedy is “Ending america’s epidemic of chronic illness by focusing on safe, wholesome food, clean waters and the elimination waters and the elimina Toxins, “The agency said.
However, that count be at odds with other trump administration priorities – like halting draft limits On per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, Known as PFAS, in a larger regulatory freeze- and Supreme Court Changes to how a trimmer Environmental Protection Agency Implements The Clean Water Act.
On the record
“We aren’t just just reduction bureaucratic sprawl,” HHS Secretary kennedy said in a statement. “We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in revered the chronic disease epidemic.”
Andrea fox is Senior Editor of Healthcare It News.
Email: afox@himss.org
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