THE state’s mega-sized human-services agency, the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), was created in 1970 by consolidating five smaller offices. Often in the decades since, lawmakers ...

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Monday sent a letter to the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) commissioner asking not to renew Camp Mystic’s license pending investigation into the deaths ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Texas food truck operators will no longer need to obtain a separate license in every city or county where they do business under a ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - (News release from the Texas Department of State Health Services) The Texas Department of State Health Services has opened applications for a new statewide license for mobile ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The state of Texas just made a historic $13 million investment in animal welfare and public health, launching a new statewide spay ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - The state's largest agency,the Department of Social and Health Services, has been broken up. The Gov. Jay Inslee said it is an effort to save children and families. The new agency is ...

Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced on Wednesday that the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has arranged for the deployment of more than 2,500 medical personnel to help hospitals care for ...

The state bureaucracy comes under frequent criticism -- often well earned -- for the way it spends taxpayers' money. And the state Department of Social and Health Services is a favorite target. But ...

AUSTIN – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Thursday that the Texas Department of State Health Services will deploy additional medical personnel to help hospitals battle the rise in COVID-19 cases. Last ...