Adam Crum
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• Alaska’s new health care price transparency law (AS 18.23.400) went into effect January 2019. However, the State of Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services will allow health care providers and facilities more time to comply with the law as regulations are still being developed. The law requires health care providers and facilities to post the prices of their most common procedures.
  
• DHSS Southcentral earthquake page for information to assist Alaskans as recovery efforts continue from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake reported between Palmer and Anchorage at 8:29 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, and the thousands of aftershocks.
• Alaska's Smokefree Workplace Law went into effect October 1, 2018. Go to smokefree.alaska.gov​ for more information.
  
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• Self-care after a major-traumatic event
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• 4/12 API accreditation renewed by The Joint Commission ​
• 3/4 WIC Launches New eWIC Cards ​
• 2/8 Commissioner assumes management of Alaska Psychiatric Institute; changes will improve patient and staff safety
  
• 1/24 Healthy Alaskans 2020 releases updated scorecards
• 12/1 DHSS Works with North Star Hospital to Open More Emergency Mental Health Beds ​
• 11/27 Statewide Opioid Action Plan offers blueprint to control Alaska's opioid epidemic. ​ 

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