DHHS secretary shares Cooper administration’s health priorities

January 28, 2019

Gov. Roy Cooper’s administration continues its push for Medicaid expansion in 2019. Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, discussed that goal and other top N.C. health issues during a presentation Monday for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.

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