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HHS outlines communications staffing, ADA web compliance and recent outreach campaigns
Summary
Communications director Lynn Bargmann told the appropriations panel the department centralized communications, added embedded managers, ran a Recovery Rocks campaign and a Stay Covered Medicaid outreach effort supporting redetermination of roughly 130,000 participants, and is preparing for an April 2026 DOJ/ADA web-accessibility requirement.
Lynn Bargmann, chief communications officer for the Department of Health and Human Services, described a recently centralized and embedded communications model and reviewed staffing, recent outreach and upcoming compliance work for the committee.
Bargmann said the communications function has moved from a fragmented model to a centralized division with embedded communications managers who work directly with program teams. She said the division had 8 FTE and 4 temporary staff at the time of the agency integration and now reports 11 filled FTE, 3 vacant FTE in the hiring process (for a total of…
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