Texas Health and Human Services Starts Huge department overhaul

In an attempt to make the Health and Human Services Commission more efficacious and effective, Texas leaders guided the department to change its ways. Initiating on the day of Thursday, 4,000 workers and more than 120 programs and functions will shift to the Health and Human Services Commission from 4 other health and human state agencies. Texas Health and Human Services Starts Huge department overhaul for effective outcomes.

“The shift marks the first of 2 waves of the state’s significant health agency transformation made to assist Texans to find and get services more efficiently,” Carrie Williams from HHSC claimed in a release.

After months of determining what can be improved upon, the agency declared what will change. The first being a latest website launched on the day of Sept. 1. The latest site will have a huge section committed to services related to aging, disabilities, females and children, food and fitness, child protection among others. The site is hoped to be more user friendly instead of the clunky site that it is now.

“This is a monumental attempt that is happening behind the scenes. Most persons will not notice a change, other than hopefully it is convenient for them to find what they require,” stated Executive Commissioner Charles Smith. “It is a work in progress, and we are putting the system together in a way that puts Texans first.”

The restructuring will eradicate the Department of Assistive and Rehabilitative Services and the Department of Aging and Disability Services to operate as separate agencies by the year of 2017. Selected programs from the Department of State Health Services and the Department of Family and Protective Services will fall under the instructions of HHSC. DSHS will concentrate its attempts on core public health functions, and DFPS will concentrate on prevention and protective services. This huge department overhaul will provide effective outcomes to the residents of Texas.