Massachusetts Health and Human Service Secretary Kate Walsh is retiring after two and a half years in the role. Gov. Maura ...

Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, undersecretary of health in the office since April 2023, will take over as the agency’s secretary on ...

Massachusetts HHS secretary Kate Walsh has stepped down from her position after more than 40 years in healthcare. Kiame Mahaniah, MD, succeeded Ms. Walsh on July 14. Prior to her role as state HHS ...

Mass. Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh speaks at a naloxone training event on July 8, 2025.

Thousands of employees across US federal health agencies received an email Monday afternoon telling them they were out of a ...

Massachusetts community health centers are among the groups worried about a federal policy change that says they can no longer provide services to unauthorized immigrants.

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the mass layoffs carried out at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) likely went against the law and there is sufficient evidence to support ...

Mass layoffs and reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stalled out in federal court, as a Rhode Island federal judge sided with a coalition of 19 state attorneys ...

After a more than two-year tenure in which she charted the state's path through the tumultuous Steward Health Care collapse, ...