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|OrganizationName=Department of Health and Human Services
|OrganizationName=Department of Health and Human Services
|OrganizationType=Executive agency
|OrganizationType=Executive Department
|Mission=The mission of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is to enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, by providing for effective health and human services and by fostering sound, sustained advances in the sciences underlying medicine, public health, and social services. This includes ensuring effective health delivery, promoting healthy behaviors, preventing diseases, providing economic assistance, and protecting the nation's health from threats.
|Mission=The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) aims to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. It works to provide effective health and human services, promote scientific research, and ensure equitable access to quality healthcare and social services.
|ParentOrganization=Executive Office of the President
|CreationLegislation=Department of Education Organization Act
|Employees=79000
|Budget=$122.8 billion
|OrganizationExecutive=Secretary of Health and Human Services
|OrganizationExecutive=Secretary of Health and Human Services
|Services=HHS provides services through its various agencies and offices aimed at improving health outcomes, preventing disease, and providing essential human services. This includes administering Medicare and Medicaid, funding medical and behavioral research, managing public health efforts like those of the CDC, regulating food and drugs through the FDA, managing welfare programs, providing grants for child care, fostering adoption and foster care, supporting mental health and substance abuse treatment, and ensuring access to health information and services for all Americans.
|Employees=80000
|Regulations=HHS oversees regulations concerning public health, healthcare services, medical research, food and drug safety, privacy of health information (HIPAA), welfare programs, child support enforcement, health insurance, long-term care, foster care, adoption, and many other areas related to health and human services. This includes setting standards for medical practices, healthcare facilities, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and consumer product safety standards for health-related products.
|Budget=$1.7 trillion (FY 2023)
|HeadquartersLocation=38.88663, -77.01439
|HeadquartersAddress=200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20201
|Website=https://www.hhs.gov
|Website=https://www.hhs.gov
|Wikipedia=United States Department of Health and Human Services
|Services=Health Care Programs; Public Health Initiatives; Human Services; Research; Social Security
|ParentOrganization=
|TopOrganization=
|CreationLegislation=Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Act of 1953 (Reorganization in 1979)
|Regulations=Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Affordable Care Act (ACA); Social Security Act
|HeadquartersLocation=38.895124, -77.029837
|HeadquartersAddress=200 Independence Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20201
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{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2022}}
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