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The money helps hospitals pay for health care for uninsured people in Texas, which has more residents without coverage than any other state.
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Texas’ healthcare system will see the largest surge in coronavirus patients since the onset of the pandemic, according to the University of Texas at Austin COVID-19 Modeling Consortium.
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This wave is hitting as the nursing workforce in Texas is burnt out and shrinking
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Health experts in Kansas and Missouri said hospitals may soon have to institute crisis standards designed for catastrophic public health events.
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Cases of the highly contagious omicron COVID-19 variant are skyrocketing across Texas. While it’s disrupting everything from travel to education, the healthcare industry is facing staffing struggles of its own.
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As COVID cases surge, local hospitals are getting calls from as far away as Michigan and Texas seeking beds for patients. But Kansas has its own crisis to deal with.
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Interests on both sides of the program — hospitals and drugmakers — say they are at the mercy of a program designed with the best of intentions, now run amok, hijacked by for-profit companies and wealthy hospitals trying to profit from its largesse.
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More than one in 10 health care workers and providers experienced high levels of job-related and personal stressors during the pandemic, according to a new study from UT Austin.
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Experts in the state are concerned about what they're calling a "twindemic," a possible surge in flu and COVID-19 cases.
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This summer, the delta variant of COVID-19 filled Kansas hospital beds at a dizzying speed. A month ago, the numbers plateaued, then started a gradual downward slope.