Where Can I Find the Creed for the Department of Health and Human Services?
Question by tommmytee: Where can I find the creed for the Department of Health and Human Services?
I want to know what that department claims is their reason for existance.
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Answer by Easy B Me II
THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES is the United States government’s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves.
THE DEPARTMENT INCLUDES MORE THAN 300 PROGRAMS, covering a wide spectrum of activities. Some highlights include:
Health and social science research
Preventing disease, including immunization services
Assuring food and drug safety
Medicare (health insurance for elderly and disabled Americans) and Medicaid (health insurance for low-income people)
Health information technology
Financial assistance and services for low-income families
Improving maternal and infant health
Head Start (pre-school education and services)
Faith-based and community initiatives
Preventing child abuse and domestic violence
Substance abuse treatment and prevention
Services for older Americans, including home-delivered meals
Comprehensive health services for Native Americans
Medical preparedness for emergencies, including potential terrorism.
HHS REPRESENTS ALMOST A QUARTER OF ALL FEDERAL OUTLAYS, and it administers more grant dollars than all other federal agencies combined. HHS’ Medicare program is the nation’s largest health insurer, handling more than 1 billion claims per year. Medicare and Medicaid together provide health care insurance for one in four Americans.
HHS WORKS CLOSELY WITH STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, and many HHS-funded services are provided at the local level by state or county agencies, or through private sector grantees. The Department’s programs are administered by 11 operating divisions, including eight agencies in the U.S. Public Health Service and three human services agencies. In addition to the services they deliver, the HHS programs provide for equitable treatment of beneficiaries nationwide, and they enable the collection of national health and other data.
HHS Budget, FY 2007 — $ 697.5 billion
HHS employees – 66,890
U.S. Public Health Service Agencies
National Institutes of Health — NIH is the world’s premier medical research organization, supporting over 38,000 research projects nationwide in diseases including cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, arthritis, heart ailments and AIDS. Includes 27 separate health institutes and centers. Established: 1887, as the Hygienic Laboratory, Staten Island, N.Y. Headquarters: Bethesda, Md. Web site:
http://www.nih.gov/
Employees — 17,216
Director — Elias A. Zerhouni, M.D.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 29.2 billion
Food and Drug Administration — FDA assures the safety of foods and cosmetics, and the safety and efficacy of pharmaceuticals, biological products, and medical devices — products which represent almost 25 cents out of every dollar in U.S. consumer spending. Established: 1906, when the Pure Food and Drugs Act gave regulatory authority to the Bureau of Chemistry. Headquarters: Rockville, Md. Web site:
http://www.fda.gov/
Employees — 9,823
Commissioner — Andrew C. von Eschenbach, M.D.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 2.0 billion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — Working with states and other partners, CDC provides a system of health surveillance to monitor and prevent disease outbreaks (including bioterrorism), implement disease prevention strategies, and maintain national health statistics. Provides for immunization services, workplace safety, and environmental disease prevention. CDC also guards against international disease transmission, with personnel stationed in more than 25 foreign countries. The CDC director is also administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, which helps prevent exposure to hazardous substances from waste sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Priorities List, and develops toxicological profiles of chemicals at these sites Established: 1946, as the Communicable Disease Center. Headquarters: Atlanta, Ga. Web site:
http://www.cdc.gov/
Employees — 8,823
Director — Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 6.0 billion
Indian Health Service — Working with tribes, the IHS provides health services to 1.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives of more than 560 federally recognized tribes. The Indian health system includes 48 hospitals, 272 health centers, 327 health stations, satellite clinics, Alaska Native village clinics, residential substance abuse treatment centers and 34 urban Indian health programs. Established: 1921 (mission transferred from the Interior Department in 1955). Headquarters: Rockville, Md. Web site:
http://www.ihs.gov/
Employees: 15,331
Director — Charles W. Grim, D.D.S., M.H.S.A.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 4.0 billion
Health Resources and Services Administration — HRSA provides access to essential health care services for people who are low-income, uninsured or who live in rural areas or urban neighborhoods where health care is scare. HRSA-funded health centers will provide medical care to nearly 16 million patients at more than 4,000 sites nationwide in FY 2007. The agency helps prepare the nation’s health care system and providers to respond to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies, maintains the National Health Service Corps and helps build the health care workforce through training and education programs. HRSA administers a variety of programs to improve the health of mothers and children and serves people living with HIV/AIDS through the Ryan White CARE Act programs. HRSA also oversees the nation’s organ transplantation system. Established: 1982 Headquarters: Rockville, Md. Web site:
http://www.hrsa.gov/
Employees — 1,487
Administrator — Elizabeth M. Duke, Ph.D.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 6.4 billion
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration — SAMHSA works to improve the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services. Provides funding through block grants to states to support substance abuse and mental health services, including treatment for more than 650,000 Americans with serious substance abuse problems or mental health problems. Helps improve substance abuse prevention and treatment services through the identification and dissemination of best practices. Monitors prevalence and incidence of substance abuse. Established: 1992. (A predecessor agency, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, was established in 1974.) Headquarters: Rockville, Md. Web site:
Employees — 558
Administrator — Terry L. Cline, Ph.D.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 3.3 billion
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — AHRQ supports research on health care systems, health care quality and cost issues, access to health care, and effectiveness of medical treatments. It provides evidence-based information on health care outcomes and quality of care. Established: 1989. Headquarters: Rockville, Md. Web site:
http://www.ahrq.gov/
Employees — 296
Director — Carolyn M. Clancy, M.D.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 319 million
Other HHS Agencies
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services — CMS administers the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which provide health care to about one in every four Americans. Medicare provides health insurance for more than 43.8 million elderly and disabled Americans. Medicaid, a joint federal-state program, provides health coverage for some 49.1 million low-income persons, including 23.5 million children, and nursing home coverage for low-income elderly. CMS also administers the State Children’s Health Insurance Program that covers more than 4.2 million children. Established as the Health Care Financing Administration: 1977. Headquarters: Baltimore, Md. Web sites:
http://www.medicare.gov/
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/default.asp?
Employees — 4,538
Administrator (Acting) — Leslie V. Norwalk, Esq.
FY 2007 Budget — $ 569.8 billion
Administration for Children and Families — ACF is responsible for some 60 programs that promote the economic and social well-being of children, families and communities. Administers the state-federal welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, providing assistance to an estimated 4 million persons, including 3 million children. Administers the national child support enforcement system, collecting some $ 23.0 billion in FY 2005 in payments from non-custodial parents. Administers the Head Start program, serving more than 900,000 pre-school children. Provides funds to assist low-income families in paying for child care, and supports state programs to support foster care and provide adoption assistance. Funds programs to prevent child abuse and domestic violence. Established: 1991, bringing together several already-existing programs. Headquarters: Washington, D.C. Web site:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
Employees — 1,280
Acting Assistant Secretary for Children and Families (Acting) — Daniel Schneider
FY 2007 Budget — $ 47.0 billion
Administration on Aging — AoA supports a nationwide aging network, providing services to the elderly, especially to enable them to remain independent. Supports some 240 million meals for the elderly each year, including home-delivered “meals on wheels.” Helps provide transportation and at-home services. Supports ombudsman services for elderly, and provides policy leadership on aging issues. Headquarters: Washington, D.C. Web site:
http://www.aoa.dhhs.gov
Employees — 115
Assistant Secretary for Aging — Josefina G. Carbonell
FY 2007 Budget — $ 1.4 billion
THE U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE COMMISSIONED CORPS is a uniformed service of more than 6,000 health professionals who serve in many HHS and other federal agencies. The Surgeon General is head of the Commissioned Corps.
Rear Admiral Kenneth P. Moritsugu, M.D., M.P.H., Acting Surgeon General
DEPARTMENTAL LEADERSHIP IS PROVIDED by the Office of the Secretary. Also included in the Department is the Office of Public Health and Science, the Office of the HHS Inspector General and the HHS Office for Civil Rights. In addition, the Program Support Center, a self-supporting division of the Department, provides administrative services for HHS and other federal agencies.
HHS WORKS CLOSELY WITH THE SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, especially in the administration of the Medicare program.
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