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Friday, September 09, 2011
How does the Texas budget impact your healthcare?
So the 82nd Texas Legislative budget has made it through after 170 days of deliberation... attached is a summary of the key outcomes that will impact your healthcare in Harris County, courtesy of Harry Holmes, Harris County Health Care Alliance’s Senior Policy Advisor. Please take a look and see what has been cut out and where we can focus efficiency in delivery:
82nd Texas Legislature Budget Summary
...Sunday, July 17, 2011
Stand Up For Texas Children Today!
Stand up for Texas children today!
In confronting Texas’s massive budget shortfall, lawmakers are slashing state-funded programs disproportionately affecting the wellbeing of our most vulnerable citizens- our children. Unable to vote or defend their needs before the legislature, children depend on us to advocate for services required to foster a prosperous future for our great state. Concerned constituents have rai...
Monday, April 04, 2011
A delay in care means possibly permanent disability.
I recently saw an 18 year old young man in the emergency room who about a month ago fell on a glass bottle, severing his ulnar nerve, artery, and a flexor tendon. He was initially seen at a private hospital, where they sewed up his laceration and told him to go elsewhere for the tendon, nerve, and artery repair. Two days later he came to the County hospital where his injuries were repaired and he was told to follow up in 1 week for suture removal, placement of a special splint, and to begin O...
Sunday, August 02, 2009
HCFAT Workshop on Health Reform
Health Care for All Texas is hosting another fabulous workshop on the topic of health reform. This ALL NEW workshop will focus on what actions private citizens can take to promote meaningful health reform. We all know what the problems... now let's learn how to fix them! The workshop will be held at Covenant Baptist Church at 4949 Caroline Street, Houston Texas. Go to www.healthcareforalltexas.org for more information.
...Saturday, February 07, 2009
Lack of insurance means a delay in seeking care
The following story was submitted by Christy Kaiser, a third-year medical student at BCM. She reports that stories like this happen every day.
I was working in the ER at Ben Taub General Hospital when a patient came in who had been having pain on the right side of his belly for the past 4-5 months, gradually getting worse. He was a Hispanic man in his 40's who had been living in Houston for several years. When we asked the patient what made him just come in now - such as if the pain had...
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Workshop on Health Disparities
Members of Doctors for Change participated in a weekend conference March 14-16, 2008 hosted by the National Physicians Alliance at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Houston. The workshop focused on sources of and solutions for health disparity in our communities. Drs. Claire Bocchini and Judy Levison conducted a workshop session highlighting the local advocacy campaigns recently conducted by Doctors for Change....
Sunday, March 16, 2008
DFC in the news!
Doctors for Change members were quoted in a USA Today article entitled "What does a health crisis look like? See Houston". Check out the link: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-18-texas-health-care_N.htm.
...Sunday, June 17, 2007
Not an emergency?
A couple of years ago, I met a patient named Bert, a 16 year old boy. He was a big, blond guy who looked like he could have played for the high school football team. He was from a working class family living on the outskirts of Houston. His family could not afford health insurance, and he, like most 16 year olds, had been very healthy. In March of 2005, he started having chest pain. He didn't have a primary care physician or regular physical exams, so he went to an emergency room. Over the ne...
Saturday, March 03, 2007