Michigan is closer to shrugging off federal oversight of its child welfare program, after a U.S. district court judge eliminated or reduced many of the requirements it must meet in order to do so. The ...

LANSING - The federal government overpaid the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services nearly $260,000 in crime victim compensation funds because of "an overall lack of MDHHS understanding" of ...

The Michigan Department of Human Services today announced it will hire more than 500 "highly qualified" in-state graduates to improve the child welfare system. In a statement, Human Services Director ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook On Oct. 2, Robert Gordon, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, ...

LANSING — Shortly after Gov. Rick Snyder's child welfare agency argued to a federal judge it had improved enough to escape court oversight, one of the state’s foster children drowned in a lake near ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — Enrollment has begun on another effort to study the health of Michiganders exposed to high levels of toxic PFAS chemicals in their drinking water. The Michigan Department of Health ...

Michigan failed to adequately track psychotropic and opioid medications prescribed for children in foster care, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector ...

Partial November benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will begin to be paid out to Michigan recipients starting Saturday, according to the Michigan Department of Health ...

Michigan agencies issued citations to four restaurants and suspended liquor licenses of three restaurants Wednesday for violating the state-mandated temporary ban on indoor service, according to a ...