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Employee Update

The 2013 April-May Newsletter

Look in April-May DHHS Employee Update newsletter (PDF, 2.0MB) for these articles:

  • Gov. Pat McCrory and Secretary Aldona Wos launch The Partnership for a Healthier North Carolina as the framework for a statewide overhaul of the Medicaid delivery system.
  • Secretary Wos and Medicaid Director Carol Steckel hold weekly office hours and travel the state to meet with key stakeholders about Medicaid reform and The Partnership for a Healthier North Carolina.
  • DHHS and local DSS leaders gather to focus on communications,customer service at Work Support Strategies leadership summit in April.
  • NC Tracks, the MMIS replacement, is on track for July 1 conversion.
  • DHHS launches new, virtual suggestion box.
  • DHHS leadership update: Sherry Bradsher is named deputy secretary for human services, Rob Kindsvatter, director of the Division of Child Development; David Oglesby, senior legal advisor for grants, contracts and compliance; Chet Spruill, director of internal audit for DHHS; Ricky Diaz, DHHS communications director; and Mark Gogal, DHHS human resources director.
  • The 2012 DHHS employee engagement survey discovers strengths and opportunities to improve job satisfaction for employees
  • Child Care licensing moves toward greater outcomes for children and families via a Quality Rating and Improvement System.
  • Governor Pat McCrory declares April Alcohol Abuse Awareness Month.
  • You don’t need a green thumb to plant a pinwheel garden, a way to show your support of efforts to prevent child abuse in North Carolina.
  • Visitors from Denmark visit Lynne Deese in the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services’ Assistive Technology Section to learn about how people with certain disabilities may benefit from technology and innovation.
  • campaign and to help overweight residents lose 10 million pounds.
  • Pyreddy Reddy presents tips on ways to protect confidential documents.
  • Congratulations to the folks who contributed more than 1,200 fuzzy animals for the annual bunny drive.
  • DHHS partners with other groups to launch a public health awareness campaign and to help overweight residents lose 10 million pounds.
  • May is Mental Health Month, with a theme of Pathways to Wellness; May 5-11 is Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week.
  • In the wake of tragedies attributed to people with mental illness, The Associated Press has developed an entry in its Stylebook to provide guidance when writing to combat stigma associated with mental illness.
  • DHHS recognizes its employee accomplishments on the Accolades page.

Published 11 times a year, the DHHS newsletter is a fully accessible Adobe Acrobat* document – easy to read on-line.

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For DHHS employees who do not have easy access to e-mail and the web, managers are asked to print out copies to post on centrally located bulletin boards in the workplace.

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