Ricker Hamilton is retiring as state commissioner of health and human services, a department that is under investigation by the Legislature’s watchdog agency after the beating deaths of two young girls who were in the child protection system. Hamilton has run the Maine Department of Health and Human Services since May 2017, when he was […]
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DHHS chief says agency will urge hiring of 75 more child protective workers
AUGUSTA — Maine’s top health and human services official told lawmakers Tuesday that the caseworker staff in the state’s child protective system would increase under a bill that would soon be unveiled. Ricker Hamilton, commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services, said he expected an upcoming bill supported by Gov. Paul LePage would […]
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Solutions remain elusive as group home crisis looms
Advocates for adults with intellectual disabilities worried about group home closures peppered a top state official with questions Monday, but no definitive steps were taken to alleviate a potential crisis that could begin this summer. Ricker Hamilton, commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services, met with the Maine Coalition for Housing and […]
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Paul LePage nominates Ricker Hamilton as DHHS commissioner
Gov. Paul LePage nominated acting Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Ricker Hamilton to be commissioner Tuesday. “We will continue to bring fiscal responsibility and accountability to this department while improving and reforming the programs that are vital to many of our most vulnerable citizens,” LePage said in announcing the nomination. Hamilton has served […]