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A Statement by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, 500 community health centers in 44 States across the country will receive approximately $42 million over three years to improve the coordination and quality of care they deliver to people with Medicare and other patients, the Department of Health and Human Services announced today.

People with Medicare will be able to benefit from a new program designed to encourage primary care doctors, specialists, hospitals, and other health care providers to coordinate their care under a final regulation issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).

Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new guidance to support enforcement of rules that protect hospital patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner.

(MedPage Today) -- The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has launched a new initiative aimed at combating the epidemic of viral hepatitis currently affecting some three to five million people in the U.S.

In a new video released by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius highlighted the work of HHS over the course of 2010.

Sebelius outlined some of the important programs and services that the department provides and discussed some of the new laws that went into effect this year and what they mean for consumers.

Sebelius also praised the work of the employees of the department.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced two key steps in the process of partnering with states and other stakeholders to begin establishing health insurance Exchanges.

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (OCIIO) today announced that it will begin accepting applications for the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP).

Sanofi Pasteur made its first shipment of injectable pandemic H1N1 influenza vaccine today to one of the distribution centers set up by the Department of Health and Human Services.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Joins Ad Council and Warner Bros. Pictures to Combat Childhood Overweight and Obesity