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The Division of Family and Community Services is collecting public comments on the Social Services Block Grant Plan & Pre-Expenditure Report for State Fiscal Year

The Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) has developed and launched a new and improved website on Sunday, Oct. 18.

Three dockets in the October edition of the Idaho Administrative Bulletin have public hearings about changes to Department of Health and Welfare rules. Click on the Docket number below for more information.

The Idaho Behavioral Health Council (IBHC) will hold its regularly scheduled quarterly meeting on Friday, Sept. 18, in Boise and via YouTube.

Idaho’s first locally-acquired human West Nile virus (WNV) infections this year have been identified among two Owyhee County residents. Both residents were over the age of 50. One was diagnosed with West Nile fever and the other was identified through blood donor screening.

The September edition of the Idaho Administrative Bulletin contains three notices about rulemaking for the Department of Health and Welfare.

Nursing homes in Idaho are working hard to protect their residents and staff from COVID-19, even as it spreads widely in many Idaho communities. Regulatory inspections are one way to know whether they are meeting their goal to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in their facilities.

Every year, the top-10 performing states for critical access hospital data reporting rates and levels of improvement are recognized by the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Federal Office of Rural Health Policy.

As Idahoans identify the many impacts of COVID-19, the need increases for behavioral health support, food security, housing, and other services.

Public health officials in the Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) are urging Idahoans to be aware of a national outbreak of Salmonella involving onions that has sickened 26 people in the state, and possibly more.