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Virginia health secretary outlines six priorities, highlights behavioral health and maternal care
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Secretary of Health and Human Resources Janet Kelly presented six bipartisan priorities to the Senate Committee on Education and Health, emphasizing behavioral health investments, maternal health, kinship care, long-term care oversight, water infrastructure, and reallocation of unused waiver slots.
Secretary of Health and Human Resources Janet Kelly told the Senate Committee on Education and Health on Jan. 9 that her office will focus this session on six bipartisan priorities, including behavioral health expansion, maternal health, kinship care supports, long-term care oversight, drinking water infrastructure, and faster use of unused waiver slots for developmental services.
Kelly, who said she has personal experience as a consumer of multiple HHR services and described the agency as a “mega secretariat,” told the committee that the secretariat employs more than 15,000 Virginians and represents about one-third of the state budget. “We cover everything from opioids to oysters to obesity and everything in between,” she said.
The secretary emphasized behavioral health funding as a multiyear effort. Kelly said investments…
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