US EditionHealth and Human Services Chief Kate Walsh Steps Down
MASSACHUSETTS, JUL 10 – The bill would allow Massachusetts to set childhood vaccine schedules independently amid federal funding uncertainty and recent panel dismissals, with 96% of kindergarteners meeting vaccination requirements.
- Kate Walsh, the Massachusetts Health and Human Services Secretary, will step down after over two years in the role, according to a Friday announcement from the Healey administration.
- Dr. Kiame Mahaniah will replace Walsh as Secretary starting Monday after serving as undersecretary of health since April 2023.
- Mahaniah takes over as Massachusetts faces potential funding cuts to MassHealth that may impact hundreds of thousands of residents' health care and food benefits.
- Mahaniah expressed a commitment to improving health care accessibility and serving the community, highlighting the urgent need for primary and behavioral health care.
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Leadership change for state's health and human services amid major federal challenges
Massachusetts Health and Human Service Secretary Kate Walsh is retiring after two and a half years in the role. Gov. Maura Healey has appointed Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, the current undersecretary for health, to replace Walsh.
HHS chief Walsh stepping down, Mahaniah named successor - CommonWealth Beacon
AFTER A MORE than two-year tenure in which she charted the state’s path through the tumultuous Steward Health Care collapse, Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh will step down, the Healey administration announced Friday. Gov. Maura Healey immediately appointed Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, who for nearly Walsh’s entire time in office has served as undersecretary of health, to take over the Executive Office of Health and Human Services’s top job…
Mass. Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh steps down. Undersecretary in the office will take over. - The Boston Globe
Dr. Kiame Mahaniah will take over on Monday. The change comes a period of unprecedented change in how medical and social services are delivered and funded.
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