Press Releases — 2016

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December

• 12/30 State crime lab confirms confiscated pill is fentanyl disguised as oxycodone
  
• 12/22 Alaska launches savings plan for children and adults with a disability or blindness
  

November

• 11/21 Alaska high school students are smoking and drinking less
  

September

• 9/20 Pilot projects will link school nurses to health info for students with complex health care needs, & improve breast cancer screening for women
  
• 9/15 Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility closing today
• 9/8 2016 Healthy Alaskans 2020 Scorecard shows project is on tract to reach
  health-improvement goals
• 9/1 Alaska receives federal funding to combat opioid addiction, misuse and overdose
  

August

• 8/15 DHSS to close Ketchikan Regional Youth Facility
  

July

• 7/22 Midwest man tests positive for Zika virus while working in Alaska
• 7/5 DHSS name first Alaska hospital to demonstrate ability to receive Ebola patient
  

June

• 6/14 State officials pleased with new regulations to protect Native children​

March

• 3/2 State and Tribe to Sign Tribal Title IV-E Maintenance Agreement
  Additional Funding to Expand Tribal Child Welfare

January

• 1/8 Alaska Pediatric program names first hospital to meet its emergency pediatric care criteria