Crocodile tears
More “you can’t make this stuff up” statements from the McCrory administration today — this time about the impact of the federal government shut-down on poor people in need of assistance. At a...
View ArticleThe beatings will continue until morale improves
How much lower can the performance of the folks running North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services sink? By all indications, DHHS now stands for Department of Hell for Hurting Souls. The...
View ArticleDHHS settlement to one-month staffer may be unconstitutional
The $37,000 paid out to N.C. Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos’ chief of staff may be in violation of the state constitution which bars any public employees from receiving money for...
View ArticlePrice: North Carolina stopping WIC vouchers for two days “really wrong”
Congressman David Price, speaking to a group of reporters today at an on-the-record lunch in downtown Raleigh, said that he still had concerns about North Carolina temporarily suspended issuing WIC...
View ArticleMarketing and PR teams formed at DHHS
State taxpayers will soon be paying for public relations and marketing teams in the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, as part of a restructuring announced in a recent agency memorandum....
View ArticleDHHS announces new mental health, substance abuse effort
The state’s health and human services agency launched an effort today for what it hopes better helps those dealing with mental health or substance abuse crises. The “Crisis Solutions Initiative”...
View ArticleEditorial: DHHS should reform, not spin
The Winston-Salem Journal hits the nail on the head this morning: “When efficient organizations make a mistake, they fix it. When dysfunctional organizations like the N.C. Department of Health and...
View ArticleDHHS announces new focus on mental health and addiction, already had a 2011 plan
North Carolina’s Health and Human Services Secretary Aldona Wos announced an initiative yesterday to address how mental health and substance abuse is handled across the state, and how best to avoid...
View ArticleMental health workers to hold demonstration this morning
Members of UE local 150, the NC Public Service Workers Union, will be holding a demonstration this morning at 10:00 am at NC DHHS headquarters on the old Dorothea Dix Hospital campus at 101 Blair...
View ArticleThe McCrory administration’s slippery Medicaid messaging starts to unravel
In some ways, you have to hand it to the McCrory administration for the way it has manipulated messages and public opinion on the state’s health insurance system for poor people, Medicaid. The McCrory...
View ArticleICYMI: DHHS Sec. Wos didn’t follow policy in awarding contracts (from the N&O)
The News & Observer’s Joseph Neff had this story over the weekend about several of the high-dollar personal contracts being awarded to administrators in the N.C. Department of Health and Human...
View ArticleIn DHHS’ latest crisis, McCrory defends Wos while food stamps funding in limbo
We first reported Thursday on U.S. Department of Agriculture’s warning that it may yank or suspend some of the funding North Carolina receives to distribute food stamps. The agency wrote a...
View ArticleDHHS Sec. Aldona Wos at the legislature today
The head of the embattled N.C. Department of Health and Human Services will appear before legislators this morning to answer more questions about the agency’s most recent mishaps. Aldona Wos, a...
View ArticleEditorial: Wos is “sincere” but “overwhelmed and underqualified”
Raleigh’s News & Observer doesn’t pull many punches with this morning’s scathing editorial about the state Department of Health and Human Services and its embattled leader, Secretary Aldona Wos....
View ArticleEditor to McCrory: Hire a grown-up next time
Raleigh’s News & Observer features an on-the-money essay this morning by Fayetteville Observer editorial page editor Tim White on the departure of state DHHS spokesperson Ricky Diaz (pictured at...
View ArticleDoctors file class-action against DHHS, computer company for troubled...
Seven doctors’ offices filed a class-action lawsuit against the state’s health agency today, seeking relief for the bungled N.C. Tracks Medicaid billing system that has delayed payments to doctor’s...
View ArticleEconomist: SNAP wasn’t broken under Perdue
Professor David Ribar of the UNCG Department of Economics is a frequent font of common sense on his blog Applied Rationality. This morning’s post: “SNAP in NC wasn’t broken before” is one such example:...
View ArticleTGIF Lunch Links, with plenty on DHHS, a civil rights hero and cold weather
I, for one, am glad it’s Friday and I’m betting Aldona Wos feels the same way. Wos, the state’s Health and Human Services, had a blockbuster week with more reporting over the weekend about federal...
View ArticleName that DHHS mess
Can’t keep up or remember all the headline-grabbing goofs over the last year at the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services? WRAL reporter Mark Binker compiled a chronological list here. The N.C....
View ArticleThe embarrassing toll from the NC DHHS Food Stamp scandal
As Chris Fitzsimon points out in this morning’s “Monday Numbers” edition of the Fitzsimon File, the flubs just keep on coming at Aldona Wos’ Department of Health and Human Services: 4—number of days...
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