Articles Tagged: Iowa Department of Health and Human Services

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services documents high COVID-19 activity and moderate influenza activity.

Iowa will turn down federal funding to pay for summer food aid to children, opting instead for a state-funded program officials say will provide better nutrition and will avoid $2.2 million a year for administration.

Also, state announces new partnership to help employers hire military veterans

Iowa is one of 30 states where the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services determined eligible individuals -- mostly children -- were being disenrolled, even though the states had information indicating they remained eligible.

Iowans -- including minors -- can legally buy high-potency marijuana drinks and gummies because of loopholes in state and federal laws, according to leaders in the state’s new Bureau of Cannabis Regulation.

Iowa HHS earlier this year launched a public service campaign to warn people over age 45 to watch the amount of alcohol they are consuming. The reason for the campaign is sobering. Alcohol-related deaths in Iowa have increased 45 percent since 2019, with half of those deaths being people over age 45.

Goal is to move people off government assistance into ‘economic self-sufficiency’

Iowa awards $580K to improve 6 public lakes

Iowa is holding more than $4 million in child support payments — many of those more than five years old — because the parent or caregiver receiving the payments has died and there’s no court order for how to disburse the money.

Iowa will participate in a federal program to help provide food for Iowa school children during summer break. The announcement comes after anti-hunger groups implored state officials to apply for the federal assistance.

Former official alleges she was fired as the communications director for the Iowa Department of Public Health for fulfilling records requests from journalists.

Iowa's health and human services agency has hired a consulting firm to study ways to boost service delivery following the merger of the state’s former public health and human services departments.

New law adds requirements for Iowans receiving public assistance benefits, including an asset test and regular checks to determine their eligibility for programs.

Bills would direct more money to the Iowa governor’s office, maternal health care and foreign animal disease preparedness, and away from water quality monitoring.

Personal information of more than 20,000 Iowa Medicaid members was compromised in a data breach of a state contractor last year, the Iowa Health and Human Services Department announced Tuesday.