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	<title>The Capitol Record &#187; DSHS</title>
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		<title>DSHS secretary Susan Dreyfus will leave at the end of the year</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DSHS Secretary Susan Dreyfus will leave at the end of this year to lead Families International, Inc., the nonprofit parent organization of three national nonprofit organizations: Alliance for Children and Families, United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA), and Ways to Work. The group also inclues one for-profit company, FEI Behavioral Health. DSHS is the largest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carrell and Regala&#8217;s public benefit reform bill heads to Gov. Gregoire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 23:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bill sponsored  by Sens. Debbie Regala and Mike Carrell to reform how Electronic Benefit Cards are used is now headed to Gov. Chris Gregoire. EBT cards are issued as part of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program. They are loaded each month with cash so the cardholder can use it like a debit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After millions were withdrawn from state-issued benefit cards at casinos, Carrell proposes anti-fraud office</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate Ways and Means Committee is considering a bill to create the Office of Fraud and Accountability within the Department of Social and Health Services. The office would be responsible for sniffing out fraud. Sen. Mike Carrell, the bill&#8217;s sponsor, told the committee that when welfare reform was passed in 1997, employees were testifying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public to testify today on idea to split DSHS into smaller agencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A proposal is on the board again to break up the Department of Social and Health Services. Today it&#8217;s up for discussion at the House State Government &#38; Tribal Affairs committee hearing. Representative Mike Armstrong claims the department is too big, with too many agencies within agencies to operate as it should. His measure, House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DSHS will lay off 380 workers, use furloughs and cut other services for 6.3 percent savings</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2010/09/dshs-will-lay-off-380-workers-use-furloughs-and-cut-other-services-for-6-3-percent-savings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 23:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 6.3 percent across-the-board cuts to state government go into effect on Friday, so we&#8217;re starting to get information on where agencies will make those cuts. Today&#8217;s news comes from DSHS, the largest state agency. In a news release, the agency said it will cut 380 full time equivalent positions. DSHS already employs 2,000 fewer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DSHS shuts down, restricts admissions to four senior facilities</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2010/04/dshs-shuts-down-restricts-admissions-to-four-senior-facilities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adult family homes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Social and Health Services today announced that it has shut down or restricted admissions for two boarding homes and two adult family homes. DSHS: - Stopped admissions to Patriots Landing Operations LLC, a boarding home marketed to veterans at 1600 Marshall Circle, DuPont, for failing to ensure seniors were smoking in proper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up now in the House Ways and Means: Abolishing DSHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, the House Ways and Means Committee appears to be getting ready to vote on the bill to abolish the state&#8217;s largest agency, DSHS. Here&#8217;s some previous coverage of the bill. Stay tuned. They&#8217;re being briefed on a list of bills to be exec&#8217;d, and I&#8217;ll update here if and when they take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Right now: Bill to abolish DSHS</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2010/02/right-now-bill-to-abolish-dshs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now in the House (and live on TVW) is a bill to abolish DSHS &#8212; the largest state agency. The bill passed out of House Health and Human Services last week, and now is in Ways &#38; Means. DSHS would be disbanded and separated into four different agencies under the bill. I&#8217;ll update here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up now: Susan Dreyfus, DSHS leader, in the Senate Human Services Committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Dreyfus, Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, is now testifying before the Senate Human Services Committee. Here&#8217;s a Q&#38;A with Dreyfus from this summer. DSHS is the largest state agency, with a $20 billion operating budget. There have been proposals this year to abolish the agency. &#8220;Often times we end up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Up now: Abolishing DSHS public testimony</title>
		<link>http://www.tvw.org/capitolrecord/index.php/2010/02/up-now-abolishing-dshs-public-testimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Niki Reading</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right now, the House Health and Human Services Appropriations Committee is holding a public hearing on a bill to abolish the Department of Social and Health Services. Watch here. Cindy Van Winkle, chair of the state rehabilitation council for the Department of Services for the Blind, said the bill would hurt blind people. &#8220;The needs [...]]]></description>
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