According to a press release issued on July 22, NC DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler has named Drexdal Pratt the new Director of the Division of Health Services Regulation, effective August 1, 2010.

For the past 12 years, Pratt has been the chief of the Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS). Jeff Hortonhas been the acting interim director of DHSR since Bob Fitzgerald’s retirement in mid-2008.

Horton will return to his previous position as deputy director of DHSR.

The full press release can be found here.

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