October 26, 2012 - The committee released a report with recommendations to improve the choices people with disabilities have about where they live and receive services.

October 25, 2012 - The 15th annual Celebrate Adoption: A Circus of the Heart event to commemorate the adoption of children from the foster care system in the previous year is Nov. 4.

October 23, 2012 - The Minnesota Department of Human Service’s Office of Inspector General recovered $9 million as part of a national health care fraud settlement.

October 17, 2012 - A program that helps Minnesotans with disabilities find safe, affordable housing surpassed the 500 mark in moving individuals to homes of their own this year.

October 11, 2012 - Carol Backstrom, an administrator experienced in health care administration and reform at the state and federal levels, has been named state Medicaid director.

October 10, 2012 - Karen Jones of Fergus Falls was recently named statewide director of Community Addiction Recovery Enterprise (C.A.R.E.), a DHS substance abuse treatment program.

October 05, 2012 - A new task force will begin work Oct. 11 examining the processes related to the civil commitment of sex offenders in Minnesota. Human Services Commissioner Lucinda Jesson appointed 15 members and ex-officio members to the Sex Offender Civil Commitment Advisory Task Force.

October 05, 2012 - DHS and the Minnesota Department of Health recently applied for a grant from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Innovation Center to reform the state's health care delivery and payment systems.

October 02, 2012 - A registered nurse supervisor at DHS' Community Behavioral Health Hospital in Baxter received the Excellence in Practice award from the American Psychiatric Nurses Association.

September 28, 2012 - DHS will again honor its community partners — counties, tribes, providers, individuals, advocacy groups and others — for excellence through the Commissioner's Circle of Excellence Awards.