Mitchell County DSS reports clean foster‑care and food‑program audits; Medicaid final result pending

Wendy, the Mitchell County Department of Social Services director, told the board the department recently completed multiple audits with largely positive outcomes.

The results matter because audits affect federal and state funding and can require paybacks or corrective actions; the director said the department avoided paybacks and major findings on recent reviews.

Wendy said the Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) audit concluded with no paybacks and only a few minor errors tied to a hurricane response and a missed state prior notice: "We also just finished up a FNS, a food and nutrition audit, which we once again, we did really well. There are no paybacks," she said. She said the foster‑care audit in her division produced "no findings and no paybacks," noting only minor corrections were required. Wendy contrasted the current foster‑care audit with a previous major audit that occurred before she joined the department.

On the Medicaid audit, Wendy said staff were told the department had passed but that the final written results were still pending: "We are still waiting on our final Medicaid audit results... we've been told that we've passed and so we're we're just kind of waiting on those results." She also offered approximate performance scores discussed during the meeting: "it was like a 97.8, and we were like a 97.6 or something like that," language she used to describe close audit percentages.

Wendy credited staff work and more current case pulling for improved audit outcomes and said she will share the final Medicaid results with the board when they arrive.

The board did not take any formal vote tied to the audits during the discussion; staff framed the results as evidence of improved compliance and casework processes.