Gaps seen in Adams County mental health services
QUINCY, Ill. (AP) - A report on early childhood mental health services in Adams County finds families lack access to child psychiatric services. Mark Schmitz is associate executive director of Transitions of Western Illinois.

Dem officials: Daschle accepts Health and Human Services Cabinet post
WASHINGTON ? Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday.

New director for Department of Health Care Services
David Maxwell-Jolly will become Department of Health Care Services director on Jan. 1, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday.

Mental health services at Tamms Correctional Center under review
SPRINGFIELD -- An advocacy group for prison inmates said Thursday that services to care for the mental health of those locked up at the Tamms Correctional Center need to be reviewed.

Prison Health Services Director Indicted
Columbia (WLTX, AP) - The Director of the State Department of Correction's Divison of Health Services has been indicted for fraud.

Lawyers, CEOs named to run Alberta's health services
Fifteen people were officially named to the Alberta Health Services Board on Thursday, the authority that oversees all health-care delivery in the province.

N.C. mental health files sold in error, retrieved
It was just a few weeks ago that the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services had to apologize after a laptop with tens of thousands of unsecured Social Security numbers was stolen from an employee. It turns out paper records weren't all that safe, either. The state sold as surplus a file cabinet from the Caswell Developmental Center, a state facility in Kinston for people with mental ...

Chatham to lose health funds
Chatham County public health services face almost $1 million in cutbacks this year as the state battles budget shortfalls, the county's top health officer told county commissioners Friday.

Daschle Picked To Lead Health, Human Services
Signaling that he will ask Congress to take on the thorny challenge of refashioning American health care, President-elect Barack Obama has asked former Sen. Tom Daschle to be secretary of health and human services.

Maryland Conference Addresses Issue Of Providing Culturally Competent Health Care Services
Participants at Adventist HealthCare's Center on Health Disparities fall conference in Maryland discussed the issue of culture-based health care services on Tuesday, the Montgomery County Gazette reports. "Even with the help of good translators, cultural differences can stymie the delivery of care," the Gazette reports.

Obama picks Daschle for Health and Human Services
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the nomination of Secretary of Health and Human Services to his close ally Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the former Democratic Senate leader who was an early supporter of Obama's run for the presidency.

Sources: Tom Daschle tabbed as Health and Human Services secretary
WASHINGTON - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said yesterday.

Daschle is Obama's pick to run Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON ? Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a backer of the Clinton administration's failed health care effort of the early 1990s, is President-elect Barack Oba-ma's choice to be secretary of health and human services. He would play a major role in working with Congress on Obama's campaign promise to expand health care coverage for Americans through a combination of broader ...

Foundation gives $1.65 million to help health care
The REACH Healthcare Foundation has granted more than $1.65 million to 18 agencies or projects to provide health services in 2009 to poor and underserved people.

Surge in Demand for Addiction, Mental Health Services Linked to Failing Economy
Mental-health professionals in Illinois are seeing an increase in cases of substance abuse, depression and suicide linked to worsening economic conditions, the Daily Herald reported Nov. 20.

Animal Services transfer moves forward
The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing Tuesday to discuss whether to transfer oversight of the county?s Animal Services Division from the Sheriff?s Department back to the Public Health Agency.

Daschle Said to Accept Offer to Lead Health and Human Services
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tom Daschle has accepted President- elect Barack Obama 's offer to become Health and Human Services secretary and lead the effort to revamp the U.S. health-care system, a Democratic official familiar with the matter said.

Health community reaches out to lawmakers
BANGOR, Maine ? More doctors and nurses. Transportation services. Consistent funding for mental health care. Expanded housing options for the homeless, the elderly and the disabled.

Daschle Is Obama?s Pick for Health and Human Services (Update1)
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tom Daschle is president-elect Barack Obama ?s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services and lead the effort to revamp the U.S. health-care system, a person familiar with the matter said.

Daschle Tapped To Lead Health And Human Services
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Tom Daschle for Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services. Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving discusses what this says about Obama's policy plans.