New director for Department of Health Care Services
David Maxwell-Jolly will become Department of Health Care Services director on Jan. 1, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Friday.

Mental health services at Tamms Correctional Center under review
SPRINGFIELD -- An advocacy group for prison inmates said Thursday that services to care for the mental health of those locked up at the Tamms Correctional Center need to be reviewed.

Dem officials: Daschle accepts Health and Human Services Cabinet post
WASHINGTON ? Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said Wednesday.

Prison Health Services Director Indicted
Columbia (WLTX, AP) - The Director of the State Department of Correction's Divison of Health Services has been indicted for fraud.

Lawyers, CEOs named to run Alberta's health services
Fifteen people were officially named to the Alberta Health Services Board on Thursday, the authority that oversees all health-care delivery in the province.

Daschle Picked To Lead Health, Human Services
Signaling that he will ask Congress to take on the thorny challenge of refashioning American health care, President-elect Barack Obama has asked former Sen. Tom Daschle to be secretary of health and human services.

Maryland Conference Addresses Issue Of Providing Culturally Competent Health Care Services
Participants at Adventist HealthCare's Center on Health Disparities fall conference in Maryland discussed the issue of culture-based health care services on Tuesday, the Montgomery County Gazette reports. "Even with the help of good translators, cultural differences can stymie the delivery of care," the Gazette reports.

Sources: Tom Daschle tabbed as Health and Human Services secretary
WASHINGTON - Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has accepted President-elect Barack Obama's offer to be secretary of Health and Human Services, Democratic officials said yesterday.

Obama picks Daschle for Health and Human Services
President-elect Barack Obama has offered the nomination of Secretary of Health and Human Services to his close ally Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the former Democratic Senate leader who was an early supporter of Obama's run for the presidency.

Daschle is Obama's pick to run Health and Human Services
WASHINGTON ? Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a backer of the Clinton administration's failed health care effort of the early 1990s, is President-elect Barack Oba-ma's choice to be secretary of health and human services. He would play a major role in working with Congress on Obama's campaign promise to expand health care coverage for Americans through a combination of broader ...

Surge in Demand for Addiction, Mental Health Services Linked to Failing Economy
Mental-health professionals in Illinois are seeing an increase in cases of substance abuse, depression and suicide linked to worsening economic conditions, the Daily Herald reported Nov. 20.

Daschle Said to Accept Offer to Lead Health and Human Services
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tom Daschle has accepted President- elect Barack Obama 's offer to become Health and Human Services secretary and lead the effort to revamp the U.S. health-care system, a Democratic official familiar with the matter said.

Daschle Is Obama?s Pick for Health and Human Services (Update1)
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Tom Daschle is president-elect Barack Obama ?s choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services and lead the effort to revamp the U.S. health-care system, a person familiar with the matter said.

Daschle to join Obama Cabinet as Health and Human Services chief
WASHINGTON | President-elect Barack Obama has asked former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services, and the South Dakota Democrat has accepted the offer.

Daschle Tapped To Lead Health And Human Services
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Tom Daschle for Secretary of Department of Health and Human Services. Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving discusses what this says about Obama's policy plans.

Obama Picks Daschle as Choice for Health and Human Services
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama has settled on Tom Daschle as his choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services, a person familiar with the matter said, putting the former South Dakota senator in charge of one of his top domestic priorities.

Health district offers immunizations, WIC services at health clinics
Starting in January, the Clermont County General Health District will be holding its monthly health clinics in the Queen City Room at the Union Township Civic Center.

Town hall meet on health services set for Dec. 2
The Capital Area Human Services District (CAHSD) is asking Iberville residents to provide opinions on potential health services and how to help citizens find existing services at a parish town hall meeting on December 2.

Proposed school health plan debated
A group of Lincoln County residents, consisting largely of members of the religious community, is attempting to prevent the Lincoln County Health and Human Services Department (HHS) from implementing into the county's public school system a proposed plan designed to help prevent teen pregnancies and the spreading of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents, according to county residents ...

Resources Strained At Community Health Clinics
As money gets tighter, more people are heading to community health clinics for medical services.