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July 18, 2022
Media Contact: Sarah Ekstrand, sarah.ekstrand@idph.iowa.gov
July 10, 2022
March 31, 2022
The Iowa Departments of Public Health (IDPH) and Human Services (DHS) are one step closer to becoming a single agency. Today, March 24, 2022, the Departments released the final change package and functional organizational chart. This serves as the roadmap to bring together both agencies under a single leadership structure. The goal of this work is to strengthen coordination amongst existing services and provide more comprehensive services to all Iowans. This will also allow us to gain efficiencies and better leverage resources to reinvest in our system.
As we at the Departments of Public Health and Human Services go through this alignment process, we continue to learn more about the connection points between the two agencies. As such, we are actively moving toward a one-agency structure.