Tag: DHS
Minnesota youth facility is serving no children after state shutdown threat
A Minnesota youth psychiatric facility that narrowly avoided a temporary shutdown this summer is not currently serving any children, its operator confirmed to Alpha...
Judge clears way for Trump admin to end Temporary Protected Status...
A federal judge in Massachusetts cleared the way for the Trump administration to strip Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from 1,100 Somalis living in the...
Deputy Commissioner Shireen Gandhi retiring from DHS as agency embroiled in...
Shireen Gandhi, the deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS), is retiring from the oft-criticized state agency. News of the retirement...
Court files reveal disturbing details of child sex offender pardoned by...
Content advisory: this article contains graphic details about sexual abuse
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Attorney General Keith Ellison and Chief Justice Natalie Hudson unanimously voted...
Minnesota Republicans condemn Walz, Ellison pardon of convicted child sex offender
Republicans throughout Minnesota are condemning DFL Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison's decision to pardon Tou Lue Vang, a convicted child sex...
DHS allows youth facility to reopen after ‘imminent risk of harm’...
Just weeks after Minnesota regulators determined children at a Nexus Family Healing psychiatric treatment facility faced an "imminent risk of harm," the nonprofit has...
Minnesota resuming payments to Medicaid providers who appealed disenrollment
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) announced Wednesday that it would resume payments to disenrolled Medicaid providers in "high-risk" state programs if those...
Fraud crackdown disrupting rides to dialysis and chemotherapy in rural Minnesota,...
Just days after Alpha News reported that rural home care providers said Minnesota’s Medicaid revalidation process was shutting down legitimate agencies, non-emergency medical transportation...
‘Powerful’: Minnesota whistleblowers offer praise for new Alpha News documentary
A group of Minnesota whistleblowers who have been speaking out on fraud in state government for the last three years praised Alpha News’ latest...
‘My jaw was on the floor’: Rural providers say DHS crackdown...
As Minnesota races to satisfy federal demands for tighter Medicaid oversight, some small rural providers say the state’s revalidation campaign is sweeping up legitimate...