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Elizabeth Hertel to replace Robert Gordon as MDHHS director Mansur Shaheen | Jan 25, 2021
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Elizabeth Hertel has been appointed as Director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS). Gov. Gretchen Whitmer made the appointment after previous MDHHS director Robert Gordon resigned last week.
Hertel previously served as the director of Policy and Planning for the Michigan Department of Community Health. She later joined the MDHHS in 2015 as a senior deputy director for Policy, Planning and Legislative Services.
She graduated from Grand Valley State University in 2000. Hertel received an MBA from Michigan State University in 2019.
“Elizabeth Hertel has dedicated her career to protecting Michiganders’ public health, and she is uniquely prepared to lead MDHHS as we continue working together to end the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Gov. Whitmer. “She has served across multiple administrations from both parties and knows how to bring
Sen. Ernst Demands Agencies Stop End-of-Year Spending Sprees
She expects a repeat of that performance come September.
“The federal government ends every fiscal year with a mountain of unspent money. The total for last year added up to more than $800 billion! And 2021 is expected to be nearly the same, with all of that taxpayer cash sitting idle and for no purpose,” Ernst said in a statement naming the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) as the latest recipient of her monthly Squeal Award.
She selected OMB because it refuses to make public the annual spending requests and justifications that the White House agency receives from federal agencies. Ernst believes making those justifications public would be an incentive against wasteful end-of-year spending by agency officials who fear their budgets will be cut by Congress if they don’t spend it all.
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This story is part of a series of articles looking at the health policy challenges the Biden administration will face.
As President-elect Joe Biden has filled out his healthcare team in recent weeks, many familiar faces have emerged. Several picks for top roles and advisers worked with him in President Barack Obama s administration. Others have long histories of government service.
A few key roles require confirmation by the Senate. But with Democrats now having control of the chamber, albeit just barely, those votes are expected to go Biden s way.
Many officials will be focused solely on the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which Biden has named as his top priority. They will be tasked with the nationwide vaccine distribution and easing continuing supply chain disruptions for health equipment, all while infections and deaths remain at record-high levels.
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This story is part of a series of articles looking at the health policy challenges the Biden administration will face.
As President-elect Joe Biden has filled out his healthcare team in recent weeks, many familiar faces have emerged. Several picks for top roles and advisers worked with him in President Barack Obama s administration. Others have long histories of government service.
A few key roles require confirmation by the Senate. But with Democrats now having control of the chamber, albeit just barely, those votes are expected to go Biden s way.
Many officials will be focused exclusively on the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which Biden has named as his top priority. They will be tasked with the smoothing out nationwide vaccine distribution and easing ongoing supply chain disruptions for health equipment critical challenges as coronavirus infections and COVID-19 deaths remain at record-high levels.