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Employee Update

The May 2012 Newsletter

Look in the May DHHS Employee Update newsletter (PDF, 2.12 MB) for these articles:

  • Groundbreaking for a new Broughton Hospital marks the start of a construction project that will run through mid-2015.
  • Acting Secretary Delia issues an Employee Appreciation Week challenge to all DHHS employees: Lead by example, thank someone who lends a hand, answers a question or provides information, and compliment a coworker on a job well done.
  • A collaboration among the divisions of Medical Assistance and Public Health with Community Care of North Carolina is resulting in healthier newborns through the Pregnancy Medical Home initiative.
  • State response teams set up and evaluated mock medical support shelters in Greenville and Fayetteville in preparation for the 2012 hurricane season.
  • A year after a devastating tornado tore through central and eastern North Carolina a state program continues to help survivors.
  • Lloyd Layton Long Jr. has been appointed to lead the state Environmental Health Section.
  • N.C. wins $1.5-million grant to improve how low-income families access services.
  • Month of May is: National Foster Care Month, Vulnerable Adult and Elder Abuse Awareness Month (5/11 – 6/18); and Better Hearing and speech Month.
  • Another look at the effects of Hurricane Irene on eastern North Carolina sees rebuilding and repairs slowing taking place with help from human services agencies, including Area Agencies on Aging in the region.

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.

*If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, download it for free.