After a more than two-year tenure in which she charted the state’s path through the tumultuous Steward Health Care collapse, Health and Human Services Secretary Kate Walsh will step down, the Healey administration announced Friday.
Gov. Maura Healey immediately appointed Dr. Kiame Mahaniah, who for nearly Walsh’s entire time in office has served as undersecretary of health, to take over the Executive Office of Health and Human Services’s top job starting Monday.
Mahaniah steps into the role on a permanent — not interim — basis at a critical point as Massachusetts braces for significant funding cuts and enrollment changes at MassHealth stemming from a new federal law…