The Federal Emergency Management Agency is reimbursing the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for COVID-19 tests.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded $248 million to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services as reimbursement for safety measures the state took during the pandemic.

LANSING As part of efforts to expand behavioral health services for Michigan families, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) has issued a competitive Grant Funding Opportunity (GFO) for crisis response initiatives that would establish or expand community-based mobile crisis intervention services statewide.

Michigan organizations react to federal funding freeze including the state budget office and local health department

Questions remained Tuesday about which programs would be covered by the federal funding pause announced Monday and which would not.

A new report released by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services showed for every 1,000 live births in Michigan, more than 6 infants die before their first birthday, or 592 infants in 2023.

FEMA and the Michigan State Police/Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division announced on Jan. 21, 2025 that $248,096,445 has been made available to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services for costs related to the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic under the federal disaster declaration of March 27,

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is preparing to send a second shipment of family planning resources to more than 300 locations across the state through the Take Control of Your Birth Control program.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s confirmation hearings are set to begin Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee on Thursday. The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.

The Shawono Center in Grayling will close and all 17 children currently housed there will be transferred to the Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center.

Michigan will soon eliminate an inactive requirement that able-bodied adults receiving Medicaid must work. The bill removing that requirement was signed into law Jan. 21 by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after passing in the House and Senate in December along party lines, with Democrats in favor. The law will take effect April 2.