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The system comprises almost 350 services and facilities, including more than 60 hospitals and long-term care facilities, 175 clinics and outpatient centers and dozens of other health ministries and ventures. Its corporate headquarters are in Irving, Texas. [6] It employs approximately 30,000 people and has more than 9,500 physicians.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is an agency within the Texas Health and Human Services System. It was established by House Bill 2292 in 2003 during the 78th Legislature, [ 1 ] which consolidated twelve different healthcare agencies into five entities under the oversight of HHSC.
In 2019, two employees of Texas Scorecard were granted media credentials to the Texas Senate but denied media credentials to the Texas House. [6] Empower Texans filed a First Amendment lawsuit on the employees' behalf. [21] Texas Scorecard was spun off into its own nonprofit entity in 2020. Former Empower Texans CEO Michael Quinn Sullivan ...
Medicaid is the primary program providing comprehensive coverage of healthcare and long-term services and support to more than 90 million low-income people in the US, according to KFF.org.
Republican lawmakers in a growing number of states are proposing to give local law officers the power to arrest people who entered the country illegally, mirroring a recent Texas law that has been ...
Later, in 1978, these health services were broadened to include comprehensive medical care for older adults certified to be nursing home-eligible. [3] 1979. The Department of Health and Human Services provided a four-year grant to On Lok to develop a model of care delivery for individuals with long-term care needs. [2] 1986-1987
Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote independence, maximize patients' quality of life, and meet patients ...
Texas ranks No. 2 in the U.S. for the number of human trafficking cases, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline — it’s a $99 million industry in Dallas.