Medicaid has been described as all-consuming for just one commissioner, now, there will be another department head who can focus on other issues.
JUNEAU, Alaska - The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, the state’s largest agency, officially split in two on Friday, but the work to uncouple the two new departments is far from over.
The Department of Family and Community Services is set to have 1,847 employees and it will be the state’s third-largest agency after the Department of Transportation & Public Facilities and the Department of Corrections. It will be represented by a logo of colorful figures in a circle, “representing families and communities working hand-in-hand and showing the diversity both in peoples and geography of our great state.”
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