Sentences with phrase «commissioner for child health»

Dr Ajay Khera, deputy commissioner for child health, has said that human milk banks will be called as lactation management centres and that human milk banking will be a part of an overall breastfeeding strategy.

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«This delay could really prevent thousands of children in New York City from receiving preventive interventions and more comprehensive services,» Gary Belkin, executive deputy commissioner for mental hygiene at the New York City health department, said in a statement.

Cuomo, who along with his Mental Health commissioner pushed for closing the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center and merging it with the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, has since decided to leave the West Seneca facility open, a state official confirmed.

In a sign that Cuomo may veto a bill to keep the Western New York Children's Psychiatric Center in West Seneca, the commissioner of the state Office of Mental Health visited Buffalo yesterday and laid out the case for moving the facility to the grounds of the Buffalo Psychiatric Center.

The Commissioners of Agriculture & Markets, Children & Family Services, Education, Temporary & Disability Assistance, and Health, as well as the Director of Farmers Markets at Empire State Development Corporation and the Director of the State Office for the Aging will also serve ex officio.

Last year, research for the children's commissioner for England suggested more than a quarter of children referred for mental health support received no treatment.

allows the local commissioner of social services or local commissioner of health to give consent for medical, dental, health and hospital services for any child found by the family court to be an abused, neglected or destitute child.

FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg said it was «an historic day for the FDA and for public health,» in comments reported by The Wall Street Journal, and that the regulations would help children avoid «a lifetime of nicotine addiction.»

Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) created a children's cabinet by executive order in 2016.10 The cabinet serves as an advisory body on issues that the state's children face — formulating policy solutions and encouraging innovation.11 The cabinet focuses on developing a comprehensive strategy to early learning through a uniform approach to data collection, quality assurance, and outcomes measurement.12 The governor chairs the cabinet, which also includes the state superintendent for education, the commissioner for mental health, and the executive director for youth services.

Previously, Ms. Anderson was the deputy commissioner at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» Administration on Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF) where she was responsible for federal programs addressing child abuse and neglect, runaway and homeless youth, domestic and intimate partner violence, and teen pregnancy.