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Tom Kowalski, President and CEO, Texas Healthcare and

WEBThe new driving force of the Texas economy. By Tom Kowalski, President and CEO, Texas Healthcare and Bioscience Institute, April 16, 2019 . Texas is an …

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Telemedicine can improve access to quality, affordable care in Texas

WEBTelemedicine is an invaluable modern tool that improves access, convenience, efficiency and quality of care in Texas. Yet Texas has some of the strictest …

Category:  Medicine Go Health

To address mental health, reduce Texas’ uninsured rate

WEBProviding much needed health care for hundreds of thousands of Texans would be a game changer at a time when many policy proposals are measured by the …

Category:  Health Go Health

Medical innovation: a policy priority in Texas

WEBUltimately, a thriving collaborative environment is what will put us on an accelerated path to advance cancer prevention and control, early detection and …

Category:  Cancer Go Health

How to elevate quality of care for Texas seniors

WEBEffective health care delivery requires a collaborative effort, regardless of the volume of patients or the complexity of conditions. The positive patient experience …

Category:  Health Go Health

Texas must address rural hospital closures

WEBTexas leads the nation in hospital closures, with 15 since 2013 and they have all been rural. Part of the reason is geography. Texas is huge and still has more …

Category:  Health Go Health

Texas knows how to solve health care problems

WEBThe Texas Tribune's opinion site. In 2003, Texas health care was in full-blown crisis. There were not enough physicians, particularly in high risk, hospital-based …

Category:  Health Go Health

For our state hospitals, we need to go all the way

WEBThe fifth, Kerrville State Hospital, provides forensic mental health services statewide. There is truly not a single area of our state that is not touched in some way by …

Category:  Health Go Health

Mental health awareness in our rural communities

WEBMore than 80% of Texas’ 254 counties are designated as Mental Health Professional Shortage Areas, with a majority being rural counties. Despite lacking the …

Category:  Health Go Health

It’s time for a “moonshot” to fix rural healthcare in Texas

WEBThe research and innovative care delivery strategies that emanate from this collaboration could potentially be a moonshot for rural healthcare — not only in Texas, …

Category:  Health Go Health

New med students embody Rio Grande Valley's progress

WEBRecently, 55 promising young medical students donned their white coats for the very first time as the inaugural class at the School of Medicine at University of Texas …

Category:  Medical,  Medicine Go Health

The Hackett Center for Mental Health will put sound policy into

WEBThe Hackett Center will be a lasting presence in Houston focused on putting policy into practice in partnership with the region’s leading health systems. When …

Category:  Health Go Health

Texas has a serious mental health problem

WEBThere are a lot of upsetting numbers laid out in the new report on mental health from the Texas Judicial Council, chaired by Texas Supreme Court Justice …

Category:  Health Go Health

U.S. healthcare is too big to fail. Here’s where to go next.

WEBThe Texas Tribune's opinion site. Republicans won control of Congress and the White House based largely on a single promise: they’d rid the world of Obamacare, …

Category:  Health Go Health

Patients need to know what a true emergency is before going

WEBAt least one out of every three patients who visit an emergency room does not have a true emergency. As a result, ERs become overcrowded, physicians have …

Category:  Health Go Health

The ACA protects medically fragile children like my son

WEBThe ACA protects medically fragile children like my son. By Elizabeth Baker , Sept. 13, 2018. I am the mother of a precious eight-year-old boy named Grayson who …

Category:  Medical Go Health

Texas HHSC needs to stay focused on its vision

WEBThe Texas Tribune's opinion site. Recent articles by The Texas Tribune and The Dallas Morning News have shown a light on the Texas Health and Human Services …

Category:  Health Go Health

Lawmakers pushing conversion therapy in Texas are going in

WEBConversion therapy is widely practiced across the nation and throughout the state of Texas. Nearly 700,000 LGBTQ adults have received conversion therapy, and …

Category:  Health Go Health

Abortion is healthcare

WEBAnd when that happens, abortion is an essential part of health care. Abortion allows women to plan and space their pregnancies, which improves their physical, …

Category:  Health Go Health

Why I'm for Hillary Clinton

WEBThe Texas Tribune's opinion site. Since his inauguration in 2009, our country has made great progress under President Obama’s leadership: fighting for civil rights, …

Category:  Health Go Health

The ACA provides economic freedom: An open letter to Sens. John …

WEBWhen the Affordable Care Act passed, I felt enormous relief. My experience with the ACA hasn’t been perfect: I’ve had to change plans twice and the …

Category:  Health Go Health

The silent victims of zero-tolerance immigration policies

WEBThe silent victims of zero-tolerance immigration policies. By Lynn Murphy , May 14, 2019. Children cover their faces as they are escorted to the Cayuga Center, …

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