United States Department of Health and Human Services
Department of the US federal government
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| 2025 | HHS announced a reorganization plan to integrate OASH into the new Administration for a Healthy America. |
| 2025 | Projected national workforce shortage of 1 million nurses is anticipated, prompting HRSA to support nursing recruitment and retention programs. |
| April 7 2025 | Mehmet Oz becomes the administrator of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. |
| March 2025 | Announcement made about merging multiple agencies into a new department called the Administration for a Healthy America. |
| March 2025 | The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) began terminating billions of dollars in COVID-19 research funding under the second Trump administration. The funding cuts impacted studies on vaccine development, long COVID research, and pandemic preparedness, raising significant concerns in the scientific community about future public health emergency readiness. |
| February 2025 | Reported plan by DHHS to eliminate public participation in many of the agency's policy decisions. |
| February 13 2025 | Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. |
| January 31 2025 | Jeff Wu's term ends, with Stephanie Carlton becoming Acting Administrator. |
| January 2025 | Christi Grimm was fired by Trump along with sixteen other inspectors general, with the legality of the firing being questioned. |
| January 20 2025 | Chiquita Brooks-LaSure's term ends, with Jeff Wu becoming Acting Administrator. |
| January 1 2025 | HHS begins preparation for a major departmental reorganization, planning to reduce top-level divisions from 28 to 15, aimed at streamlining the department's administrative structure. |
| March 2024 | The United States continues to monitor and respond to COVID-19, with healthcare systems maintaining preparedness for potential new variants or outbreaks. |
| March 1 2024 | CDC shortened its recommended COVID-19 isolation period to one day after being fever-free, aligning with recommendations for influenza and respiratory syncytial virus, while still recommending enhanced precautions. |
| February 2024 | Updated COVID-19 vaccines remain available to help protect against current virus strains, with continued public health recommendations for vaccination. |
| January 2024 | The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the United States, with ongoing efforts to manage the virus and its variants. |
| January 2024 | U.S. COVID-19 infections reached their second-highest recorded level in wastewater data, only surpassed by the initial Omicron wave in January 2022. |
| January 12 2024 | New York City Fire Department implemented a targeted municipal employee mask mandate, requiring only firetruck and ambulance personnel to wear masks during pre-hospital patient care. |
| January 9 2024 | California health officials shortened the recommended COVID-19 isolation period to one day for individuals with mild symptoms to minimize school and workplace disruptions. |
| January 5 2024 | Saint Louis planned to reinstate a mask mandate for city employees, but it was canceled less than 24 hours after issuance due to pressure from Missouri's Republican governor. |
| January 1 2024 | New York City Health + Hospitals renewed its mask mandate. |
| December 2023 | The Senate Budget Committee launched an investigation into the effects of Apollo's ownership of LifePoint, focusing on high debt levels, cuts to services, layoffs, poor quality ratings, and regulatory investigations. |
| December 2023 | Health authorities continued to monitor COVID-19 transmission rates and hospital capacities across different regions of the United States, adjusting public health recommendations accordingly. |
| December 2023 | New York City Health and Hospitals resumed its mask mandate shortly after Christmas, aiming to minimize potential staffing shortages in the healthcare system. |
| November 2023 | New COVID-19 variants continued to emerge, prompting discussions about updated vaccination strategies and potential booster shots to address evolving viral strains. |
| October 2023 | The Biden administration requested additional funding from Congress to support COVID-19 response efforts, highlighting ongoing challenges in managing the pandemic. |
| October 2023 | Health facilities in California, New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois began reinstating mask mandates for staff and visitors due to increased COVID-19 infection rates during the winter season. |
| September 2023 | By September 2023, updated COVID-19 vaccines became available, targeting more recent virus variants and aimed at providing enhanced protection for the upcoming fall and winter seasons. |
| September 2023 | Three school districts in Texas and Tennessee temporarily suspend in-person learning due to high COVID-19 positivity rates among students and staff. |
| September 25 2023 | The federal government restarted the national free COVID test delivery program, offering four free tests per mailing address, with Health Secretary Xavier Becerra promising continuation through the holiday season if cases continue to rise. |
| September 25 2023 | The federal government restarts the national free COVID test delivery program, enabling four free tests per mailing address, with tests distributed despite some having expired packaging dates. |
| September 19 2023 | The Subcommittee on Health held a hearing where Dora Hughes defended the proposed Transitional Coverage for Emerging Technologies (TCET) pathway, which would restrict coverage for breakthrough medical devices to five reviews per year. |
| August 2023 | Morris Brown College reinstated temperature checks and restricted large events for two weeks at the beginning of the fall semester due to a COVID-19 outbreak. |
| August 2023 | United States experiences a late-summer COVID-19 wave, with Walgreens reporting the largest number of positive cases since May 2021 in the first week of August. |
| August 2023 | Lionsgate film studio briefly reinstates a mask mandate following a COVID-19 outbreak. |
| August 2023 | Hospitals across the US report a 24% rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations during the first two weeks of August, with increased cases detected in wastewater testing in the West and Northeast regions. |
| May 11 2023 | The COVID-19 public health emergency officially ended, concluding a significant phase of the pandemic response in the United States. |
| March 2023 | COVID-19 variants continued to circulate, with XBB.1.5 (Kraken) becoming the dominant strain in the United States during this period. |
| February 23 2023 | Eighteen states had cut payments for more than 10 million people, and Congress decided to end the program early, replacing additional benefits with a new permanent program providing extra money to low-income families for summer school meals. |
| February 9 2023 | The CDC updated its COVID-19 community levels guidance, reducing the emphasis on masking and recommending fewer mitigation strategies. |
| January 2023 | South Carolina and 17 other states with Republican-controlled legislatures terminated pandemic food supplements before the federal end date. |
| January 2023 | The USDA announced the impending end of emergency SNAP benefits for 32 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands after the February 2023 distribution. |
| January 11 2023 | The Biden administration decided to renew the COVID-19 public health emergency amid a winter surge of cases related to highly transmissible Omicron subvariants, which was potentially seen as the final extension of the emergency declaration. |
| 2022 | ARPA-H received $1 billion in initial appropriations. |
| 2022 | Inflation Reduction Act signed, which included provisions for healthcare and prescription drug pricing. |
| 2022 | A research study revealed that Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) with higher service penetration were associated with reduced COVID-19 mortality rates in major U.S. cities, highlighting their critical role in pandemic healthcare response. |
| December 2022 | CDC estimated that 77.5% of Americans had contracted COVID-19 at least once by the end of the year. |
| December 2022 | CDC reported that the COVID Omicron XBB.1.5 variant became highly prevalent, representing approximately 41% of new cases in the United States. |
| December 2022 | The Biden administration implemented a requirement for U.S. visitors from China, Hong Kong, and Macau to provide proof of negative COVID-19 test results due to concerns of a potential surge. |
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