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Monday, December 7, 2020
Here's What You Missed from HHS: December 6, 2020
An official
email from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Latest U.S.
Department of Health & Human Services News Releases
Today, the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) announced the creation of a False Claims Act Working
Group (Working Group) that enhances its partnership with the Department
of Justice (DOJ) and the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) to combat
fraud and abuse by identifying and focusing resources on those who seek
to defraud the American taxpayers. Read full news release
Today, HHS announced that the Department
has established the Chief of Staff’s Taxpayer Accountability Board (TAB)
to ensure that HHS is a good steward of taxpayer funds and to eliminate
excessive spending. Read full news release
Today, the Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) finalized a Good Guidance Practices rule to help
ensure that the public receives appropriate notice of new guidance
documents and that HHS guidance documents do not impose obligations on
regulated parties that are not already reflected in statutes or
regulations. Read full news release
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) issued a fourth amendment to the Declaration under
the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act) to
increase access to criticial countermeasures against COVID-19. Read full news release
On Thursday, the Department of Health
and Human Services announced an HHS Action Plan, a Surgeon General’s Call
to Action, a new public-private partnership to reduce maternal mortality
and morbidity. Read full news release
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) released an important HHS
Action Plan and announced a partnership to reduce maternal deaths and
disparities that put women at risk prior to, during, and following
pregnancy. Read full news release
In this new
video, Surgeon General Jerome Adams shares five things you should know
about the US Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps and their
work to respond to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The Department of Health and Human
Services is laying the necessary groundwork for the distribution of a
safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine by ensuring that all tribal health
programs and urban Indian organizations have the choice on how they
receive the COVID-19 vaccine. Read full news release
“Even as COVID-19 has exacerbated so
many health challenges, the Trump Administration remains deeply committed
to the global fight against HIV/AIDS and our goal of ending the HIV
epidemic in America by 2030. Read full news release
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