Blog
10/28/2022
The Higher Opportunities for Pathways to Employment (HOPE) program, offered through the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Office for Family Independence (OFI), supports Maine parents in pursuing meaningful careers while helping to address Maine’s workforce needs.
10/18/2022
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) remains committed to improving operations to better serve and meet the needs of Maine people. A major component of these efforts is leveraging technologies to upgrade outdated systems, transition paper-based processes online, improve customer service, increase transparency, and inform data-driven policies and service delivery.
10/7/2022
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) Maternal and Child Health Program has been awarded one of nine highly competitive $5 million State Maternal Health Innovation grants from the U.S.
9/15/2022
Federal grants complement state-funded payments for child care workers
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced today that it will distribute $13.6 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds to improve Maine families’ access to safe, affordable, and high-quality child care.
8/25/2022
Today, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) posted a new “DHHS By the Numbers” Dashboard. It displays current data on services provided by the Department’s 3,400 workers in its eight Offices and two psychiatric hospitals.
8/16/2022
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has implemented a slate of MaineCare rate changes that improve the health and well-being of patients but have been historically underfunded.
7/28/2022
As part of Governor Mills’ commitment to improving services for Maine people with disabilities, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has significantly increased investments in programs that support improved access to housing.
7/27/2022
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) continually strives to keep the public informed about its work. This includes redesigning the DHHS website, creating and regularly updating a blog, developing and updating data dashboards, and regularly engaging with the press, constituents, stakeholders, the Legislature, and the public.
7/20/2022
The Office of MaineCare Services has launched Primary Care Plus (PCPlus), a new initiative to support primary health care, advance health care quality, and improve the efficiency of health care spending.
7/6/2022
In the wake of the Supreme Court striking down Roe v.
6/7/2022
While mental health challenges were all-too common before the pandemic, COVID-19 has exacerbated these conditions for many people in Maine and across the nation.
5/4/2022
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services operates a COVID-19 “Community Care” program that provides wrap-around supports to ensure that everyone in Maine who tests positive for COVID-19 or is a close contact can easily and safely isolate or quarantine, regardless of socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, language, or other identities.
4/25/2022
On April 20, 2022, Governor Mills signed a bipartisan supplemental budget that invests $522 million in total funding ($202 million in State General Fund) in the programs run by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
4/5/2022
Supporting mental health and reducing the harm of opioid addiction and other substance use disorders has been a priority for the Mills Administration from day one. In the past three years, even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maine has built capacity and invested in behavioral health services.
3/14/2022
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is distributing this week an additional $4 million in MaineCare payments to home- and community-based services (HCBS) providers to fund bonuses for direct support workers across the state.
3/2/2022
Today, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services announced that it is delivering additional help for low-income families to pay for this winter’s unusually high energy costs.
2/28/2022
Today, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued new MaineCare payment rates to nursing facilities, to be followed shortly by rates for residential care facilities (Private Non-Medical Institutions (PNMI), Appendix C), which increase funding by $12 million from January through June 2022.
2/25/2022
Today marks the end of Governor Mills’ temporary deployment of the Maine National Guard to hospitals to provide crucial non-clinical staff support during the most intense period of the COVID-19 pandemic to date. The entire Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) COVID-19 team is grateful for their service.
2/17/2022
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced today that it is extending Project Access COVID Tests (ACT), its partnership with The Rockefeller Fou
2/2/2022
Maine CDC continues to recommend contact tracing for certain higher-risk congregate residential settings, including long-term care facilities