emergency care

Although Texas counties are not required to provide ambulance services, many are digging deep to pay for their own fleet or to contract out services.

In Norton County, as in many parts of rural Kansas, the ambulance service is stretched thin.Norton, with a population around 5,400 in the northwest corner…

In Norton County, as in many parts of rural Kansas, the ambulance service is stretched thin.Norton, population 5,400 in the northwest corner of the state,…

A proposed policy change by the largest insurer in Texas has been put on hold after a big backlash from doctors across the state.As Houston Public Media…

Freestanding emergency clinics have proliferated across Texas in recent months. Texas is one of only three states to allow these walk-in ER clinics,…

The hearing impaired, among others, can now text 9-1-1 in emergencies. As The Prowers Journal reports, the Prowers County Emergency Telephone Authority…

Rural Texas residents have struggled to find adequate healthcare for a long time. In the last three years alone, fifteen rural hospitals have closed in…

The Texas Panhandle is getting a new emergency room, reports The Canyon News. But this ER isn’t in a hospital—it will be located on the block between I-40…