Sentences with phrase «state health officials did»

Until recently state health officials did not require physicians and hospitals to report Zika virus disease, so it is possible that some cases may have not been captured by state records.

State health officials do not seem especially eager to field questions about the ongoing water contamination crisis in Hoosick Falls and other upstate towns.

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In a recent interview with the Washington Post (part of their ominously titled «Voices of Power» series), Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius discussed Archbishop Joseph Naumann's request that she not present herself for communion because of her public support for legalised abortion: «Well, it was one of the most painful things I have ever experienced in my life, and I am a firm believer in the separation of church and state, and I feel that my actions as a parishioner are different than my actions as a public official and that the people who elected me in Kansas had a right to expect me to uphold their rights and their beliefs even if they did not have the same religious beliefs that I had.

A state Health Department official said the department did not have any information about the location of the Onondaga County plant.

While the toxins didn't reach the level of a public health concern, it got the attention of federal, state and local officials.

While it didn't rise to the level of a public health crisis, state and local officials wanted to prevent that from happening.

Instead, the elected officials insist they were first notified last March about the contamination — though the state Health Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency informed them little could be done because the toxic chemical was not a regulated contaminant.

And even as multiple wells in nearby Hoosick Falls tested positive for elevated and potentially dangerous levels of the same toxic chemical more than a year ago, state health department employees suggested a delay in reporting results and did not initially recommend a wider outreach to the public, according to emails between state, county and federal officials, some of which were obtained through a Freedom of Information Law request to the federal Environmental Protection Agency.

ALBANY — Officials in the state Department of Health were aware of concerns that the water in the upstate village of Petersburgh could be tainted with a toxic chemical in late 2014, but did not take action to protect residents until a few days ago, according to emails obtained by POLITICO New York.

An engineer with the state Department of Health told county officials that they did not have to immediately report elevated levels of PFOA because the testing was done voluntarily.

State officials in Minnesota overseeing the program say that's because some health - care providers who could qualify patients for the program haven't been doing so.

The state Health Department did not disclose the locations of those dispensaries and officials of those companies could not be reached for comment.

A joint statement issued by the state Department of Environmental Conservation and Department of Health pushed back on the comments made by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday that the state did not act swiftly when warned of a chemical contamination in Hoosick Falls's drinking water.

He says more research needs to be funded, and he questioned whether state health officials are doing enough.

State health officials confirmed the death last week, but did not identify him.

Zika could cause major problems in the Big Apple if city health officials don't start discouraging people from traveling to hotbeds in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico, according to a former New York state official.

A health care consultant with close ties to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo did not violate state lobbying regulations when he contacted state officials on behalf of a Queens hospital seeking more Medicaid financing, a confidential investigation by the state ethics commission has determined.

Why did state health officials consistently say it was safe to drink the water in Hoosick Falls because it contained fewer than 50,000 parts per trillion of PFOA when federal regulators cautioned 400 parts per trillion was the recommended safety level?

That would be in line with what the state did to help launch the nanotech industry in Albany, and officials have said that's a model they intend to follow here to help grow life and health sciences at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.

«When you factor in all that health care professionals and state officials are doing, there likely is no other public health issue in Pennsylvania getting as much attention,» says Lawrence John, MD, president of the Allegheny County Medical Society and a family physician in Pittsburgh.

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Specifically, we call upon State officials — most notably, the Governor, Secretary of Education, state legislators, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Secretary of Health and Human Services, and leaders of other key State agencies — to do the folloState officials — most notably, the Governor, Secretary of Education, state legislators, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Secretary of Health and Human Services, and leaders of other key State agencies — to do the follostate legislators, the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE), Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), Secretary of Health and Human Services, and leaders of other key State agencies — to do the folloState agencies — to do the following:

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For example, the proposed rule did not state explicitly whether covered entities would have been allowed to initiate — in the absence of a request from law enforcement — disclosure of protected health information to law enforcement officials for the purpose of identifying a suspect, fugitive, material witness or missing person.

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