DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Definition & Meaning

Department of Health and Human Services

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the department of the U.S. government that administers federal programs dealing with public health, welfare, and income security: created in 1979 from the reorganized Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. : HHS

Department of Health and Human Services

A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the Social Security Administration , the Public Health Service, and other programs designed to promote public welfare. It was originally called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, until the separate Department of Education was created in 1979.

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The decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to restore millions of dollars for the two states came as it simultaneously withheld nearly $66 million from clinics in the Title X program elsewhere.

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Department of Health and Human Services plans to cut 10,000 jobs.

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Congressional action requires the Department of Health and Human Services to maintain Head Start at its current funding and staffing levels and ensure current capacity as mandated by the Head Start Act, the suit said.

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Neither the Office of Refugee Resettlement nor the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the office, responded to requests from The Times.

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After that, the Department of Health and Human Services said, it will work with industry to eliminate six petroleum-based food dyes: blue 1, blue 2, green 3, red 40, yellow 5 and yellow 6.

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