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In 2007, the Health and Human Services Commission of Texas established the Women's Health Program (WHP), a Medicaid waiver program that received 90% of its funding from the federal level. [9] [10] The Program provided family planning services for women from the ages of 18–44 whose incomes were 185% below the federal poverty level. [9]
The Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health within the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center was established in 2007 to promote research specific to women's health, to provide advanced sex and gender specific education to health care professionals, and to enrich the lives of women and girls through community programs and cancer prevention.
Maternal mortality among American women has risen by 75% in the past 20 years, according to the World Health Organization. Texas ranks among the bottom 10 states for the rate of maternal mortality.
Unfortunately, in 2016 only 65% of pregnant women in Texas had access to prenatal care in their first trimester. [35] Women being unaware of their pregnancies, economic hardship due to inability to work during pregnancy, lack of knowledge or access to health services, and difficulty finding transportation are contributing factors to this ...
Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, 579 U.S. 582 (2016), was a landmark decision [1] of the US Supreme Court announced on June 27, 2016. The Court ruled 5–3 that Texas cannot place restrictions on the delivery of abortion services that create an undue burden for women seeking an abortion.
Jackson Women's Health Organization, a case over a Mississippi abortion law blocking abortions after the fifteenth week, which is set to be heard in December 2021. Following the Supreme Court's refusal to block Texas's law, numerous friends-of-the-court briefs were submitted to support the position of abortion clinics in Dobbs. [19]
Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Many of the direct client services that were performed by DSHS, such as services for women and children, and people with special health care needs, were transferred to HHSC in September 2016. DSHS now focuses on providing these functions: Vital statistics, such as birth and death records
In 1995, the Woman's Hospital of Texas completed renovations of its Labor and Delivery Unit and Newborn Intensive Care Unit. The renovations reportedly cost roughly 5.5 million dollars. The hospital underwent expansion in 2000 and 2009. [citation needed] In 2005, the Breedlove quadruplets were born at the Woman's Hospital.