News Releases

05/15/13: Governor adds more counties to disaster list, information on vouchers

05/06/13: Child welfare by the numbers for 2012, one-page summary, Little change in trends

05/03/13: Vouchers to help with Eastern Iowa storm damage

02/21/13: Iowa receives health care innovation grant

12/12/12: High Accuracy Rate for Medicaid, hawk-i

07/31/12: Layoff at Woodward

07/30/12: $30M savings in program integrity exceeds goal for Iowa Medicaid

06/22/12: Gra3nt will help provide at-home help for vulnerable Iowans

05/21/12: 15th safe haven child

05/11/12: Warren County records warning in wake of fire. Records FAQ

04/26/12:List of child abuse prevention grants.

04/11/12: Sharp reduction in temporary removals to foster care

03/20/12: Child Abuse Declines in Calendar 2011.

See also 2011 one-pagesummary of child welfare

12/09/11: Palmer endorses recommendations for redesign

12/04/11: Impact of Warren County fire

10/31/11: Palmer: Report shows momentum is growing for MH redesign

09/13/11: Corrected Hearings set to gather input on mental health redesign

09/09/11: Hearings set to gather input on mental health redesign

08/08/11: Vermeer named to prestigious Medicaid institute

08/03/11: DHS appoints workgroups to Mental Health and Disabilty Redesign

07/21/11: $23 million in paybacks, savings in first year of Medicaid contract

07/19/11: "Aged Out" youth give feedback. Survey results.

07/07/11: DHS cuts Food Assistance error rate in half

06/28/11:DHS awards 80 grants to preventchild abuse. List of grants

03/11/11: Slight decline in child abuse.see also2010one-page summary

01/17/11: Input sought on child support guidelines

01/10/11: Olmstead plan for disabled is unveiledOlmstead Plan PDF

12/28/10: Smith appointed superintendent of Cherokee MHI

12/28/10: Iowa Medicaid providers first in line forrecords help

12/27/10: Bonus for Iowa's children's health insurance program

12/08/10: Options to change the child abuse registry

10/21/10: Focus on accuracy yields results in food assistance program

10/19/10: 'Atalissa Men' doing well in life after bunkhouse

10/13/10: Iowa DHS 'almost perfect' in audit

12/05/09: New TO

12/07/09: New Service Areas