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Minnesota Department of Human Services Commissioner Jodi Harpstead said she welcomed the Legislature's decision to break up the massive department.
Minnesota's largest and most-scrutinized state agency will be split up in the coming years as the result of legislative action meant to reduce bureaucracy and costly errors.
The Department of Human Services' massive Direct Care and Treatment division will spin off into its own agency and take its roughly 5,000 employees with it. Additionally, a new Department of Children, Youth and Families created by the Legislature this year will take more employees away from DHS.
State lawmakers talked for years about breaking up the DHS, their discussions intensifying after the agency made a string of costly financial mistakes and received scathing reviews from the state's legislative auditor. Some felt that the agency, which has more than 7,000 employees and an annual budget that exceeds $20 billion, was too large to effectively manage.
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FutureCHW writes:
As a future community health worker, I support this decision 100%. The M.D.O.H. has a long track record of mishandling funds and cases. In order to contribute in closing the health inequity gaps in our country, the public health system needs to be reworked.
07/05/2023, 12:06 pm