Texas Health Reorganization Reduces Agencies to Five
Texas anticipates a broad shakeup as 12 state health and human service agencies merge into five by year’s start. The Health and Human Services Commission becomes the umbrella agency, absorbing the Department of Health and related bodies. About 50,000 workers face the changes.
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Austin
Re-Org
Governor's Office
Health and Human Services Commission
Department of State Health Services
Department of Health
Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Health Care Information Council
Department of Mental Health
State agencies merge roles in Texas reform plan
The Texas plan shifts care from MHMR to the Department of Aging and Disability Services and moves duties from Human Services and Aging. Family and Protective Services replaces Regulatory Services, while Assistive and Rehabilitative Services takes over the Rehabilitation Commission and related groups. School bus safety week prompts Trooper patrols and potential $1000 fines for red light violations. Houston leads unclaimed property with 22,644 names and $14.24 million in 2003. DPS seeks recruits for February 2 class with applications due by November 7.
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Department of Aging and Disability Services
MHMR
Department of Human Services
Department of Aging
Department of Family and Protective Services
Department of Protective and Regulatory Services
Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services
Texas Rehabilitation Commission
Commission For the Blind
Commission For the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Interagency Council of Early Childhood Intervention
Department of Public Safety
Carole Keeton Strayham
Houston
Windowstate
DPS
U.S
Txdps
Texans to Hear USDA Official At Commodity Symposium
United States Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency Administrator Ross J. Davidson Jr will speak at the 3rd Annual Texas Commodity Symposium on December 3, 2003, in Amarillo. He will discuss RMA activities and the agency's vision for improved and new risk management products. Sponsors include the Corn Producers Association of Texas and Plains Cotton Growers Inc.
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United States Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency
Ross J. Davidson, Jr
Amarillo Convention Center
Amarillo
Corn Producers Association of Texas
Texas Grain Sorghum Producers Association
Texas Wheat Producers Association
Plains Cotton Growers, Inc
High Plains
New York
Lubbock
USDA
Nuegebauer
House
Nineteenth
Randy Neugebauer
House Agriculture Committee
Bob Goodlatte
Virginia
Merket
Texas Tech University
Goodlatte
House Ag
House Agriculture General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Texas
Reflections on gratitude from a faith fellowship sermon
Ben Phipps of Calvary Baptist Church offers a faith based column urging readers to reframe daily woes as blessings. He suggests counting blessings, noting feet hands and mobility as gifts. The piece cites Psalms 103:2 and urges gratitude amid common annoyances.
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Ben Phipps
Calvary Baptist Church
IRS
Ageer
Rural health aid by volunteer coalition in Michigan
Thomas D. Rowley weighs the rise in uninsured Americans, especially in rural areas, and profiles the Medical Care Access Coalition in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The group unites doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and hospitals to provide free care, prescriptions, and tests, enabling the uninsured to get full care through volunteerism and streamlined processes.
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Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Medical Care Access Coalition
MCAC
Marquette County
Coalition
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Mattson
Margaret Couture
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