Healthcare DIVE March 28, 2025
Many HHS department heads and employees were unaware of plans to fire some 10,000 employees until they were publicly announced Thursday, sources said.
Just before 9 a.m. Thursday in Washington, D.C, the Department of Health and Human Services sent out a press release with the subject line: “HHS Announces Transformation to Make America Healthy Again.” The transformation: 10,000 full-time employees will be fired. Twenty-eight of the department’s divisions will be cut down to 15 and the number of regional offices halved.
For hours, the 650 words in the press release were all the details some HHS employees had about a reorganization that will significantly shrink an agency responsible for overseeing much of the country’s healthcare.
An hour after the press...
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