Press Releases — 2008

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December

• 12/29 Annual Medicare Drug Plan enrollment window closes Wednesday
• 12/24 State issues provisional license to owners of long-term care facility
• 12/18 State assumes temporary management of long-term care facility
• 12/17 State Health & Social Services names two division directors
• 12/11 Initial tests on white powder negative
• 12/09 Public Health to offer free pertussis vaccinations in Juneau
• 12/04 Governor Palin Announces Health Priorities
• 12/03 Governor to Announce Health Initiatives(PDF )
• 12/01 Fairbanks Public Health to hold vaccine clinics

November

• 11/18 Annual Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Enrollment Window Now Open
• 11/14 Governor’s Emergency Medical Service Awards announced
• 11/06 American College of Surgeons lists ways to improve state trauma system

October

• 10/20 Public invited to Prevention Summit Nov. 3
• 10/15 Alaska receives $1.5 million national youth suicide prevention grant
• 10/15 State selects new company to manage Medicaid claims system
• 10/09 State investigation links foodborne outbreak to consumption of peas
• 10/01 State begins distributing more than 87,000 doses of flu vaccine

September

• 09/19 Fraud alert: telephone scam of Medicaid recipient
• 09/11 Public-private partnership helps streamline state’s work with health and social service grantees
• 09/09 Elgee appointed as Assistant Commissioner of Finance and Management Services
• 09/09 Hefley appointed as Deputy Commissioner of Family, Community, and Integrated Services
• 09/05 Outbreak of Campylobacter Enteritis in Southcentral Alaska

August

• 08/15 Remains Identified from 1948 crash

July

• 7/24 Governor Announces Bill Hogan as Commissioner
• 7/23 Governor to reciee National Fitness Award
• 7/23 New API Advisory board will be "consumer-driven"

June

• 6/30 Reimbursement increases for health and social services providers in the works
• 6/17 YKHC and State collaborate to transition emergency youth services
• 6/17 Alaska No. 1 in Physical Activity Challenge
• 6/16 State Smoking Rate Down 20 percent

April

• 4/29 State Medical Examiner Retires
• 4/16 Governor Encourages Alaskans to Complete National Activity Challenge
• 4/7 Rural primary care providers get new mental health telemedicine resource
  

March

• 3/20 Governor Reminds Alaska about Fitness Challenge

February

• 2/11 Governor Signs 'Safe Haven' Bill Into Law
• 2/19 Virus Infects Western Alaska
• 2/27 State to require tamper-resistant prescriptions for Medicaid program
• 2/19 Virus infects Western Alaska
• 2/8 Governor Signs ‘Safe Haven’ Bill Into Law

January

• 1/19 Governor Palin Introduces the Health Care Transparency Act
• 1/17 Newborn screening regulations go into effect today
• 1/14 Dept of Law news release: State announces settlement