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Human service zones report staffing wins, budget shifts and continuing local capacity concerns
Summary
Zone leaders told the House committee that human service zones have begun stabilizing staffing after earlier turnover, that indirect costs were reclassified to direct spending, and that zones are pursuing Medicaid billing options and collaborations with corrections to help people apply for benefits before release.
BISMARCK — Human service zone operations drew sustained attention from the House Appropriations Human Services Division on Thursday as zone leaders sketched a complex transition from county‑based delivery to multi‑county, host‑county structures and described recent budget and staffing changes.
Kristen Haspargen, director of Zone Operations at HHS, walked the committee through the zone model and the department’s role in supervision, fiscal support and standards of administration. She said zones continue to collaborate on training, on‑call scheduling and onboarding and that several state policy changes passed last session addressed indirect cost allocation and final disposition (burial) rules.
Key points: staffing, budgets, and collaboration
- Turnover and stabilization:…
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