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A healthcare center, health center, or community health center is one of a network of clinics staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses providing healthcare services to people in a certain area. Typical services covered are family practice and dental care, but some clinics have expanded greatly and can include internal medicine ...
Providence Health & Services is a not-for-profit Catholic healthcare system headquartered in Renton, Washington.. The health system includes 51 hospitals, more than 800 non-acute facilities, and numerous assisted living facilities in the western half of the United States (Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, New Mexico, and Texas).
Covenant Health serves West Texas and Eastern New Mexico, and includes seven hospitals, more than 1,100 beds, more than 5,000 employees and more than 600 staff physicians. [ 7 ] More than 600 physicians treat over 38,000 annual admissions, and over 100,000 emergency room visits through a number of specialty treatment centers [ citation needed ] .
Opened in 1974, the El Paso State Supported Living Center answered the community need for a long-term care facility for people with mental challenges in West Texas. The center is home to 150 people who live in eight cottages and three 16-bed units. Located in the City of El Paso and serving El Paso County, the center employs approximately 300 ...
Formed in 2013 from the merger of Scott & White Health with Baylor Healthcare System, it became the largest non-profit healthcare system in Texas and one of the largest in the country. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its network contains over 50 hospitals and more than 800 patient care sites. [ 4 ]
By 2010, assisted by funding received through the ARRA, health centers had expanded to serve more than 18 million people. The health center program's annual federal funding grew from $1.16 billion in the 2001 fiscal year to $2.6 billion in the 2011 fiscal year. [60] Health centers served 24,295,946 patients in 2015. [61]
In 1997, PeaceHealth merged its SelectCare health insurance plan with a service from Providence Health & Services. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Their partnership has continued until at least 2015, [ needs update ] when in October of that year, they jointly signed a letter of intent to collaborate on a health center in Vancouver, Washington .
Several governors of Texas hailed from McLennan County: Ann Richards (1991–1995), the state's second female governor; Pat Morris Neff (1921–1925), who also served as president of Baylor University; Lawrence Sullivan Ross (1887–1891), whose family helped found Waco and who also served as the fourth president of Texas A&M University; and ...