The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...19, the presid­ent and CEO of Travis County Central Health, Patricia Young Brown, woke to find her face spread..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Thinking thinkEAST

How Fusebox has engaged stakeholders in the planning process

"...like this, how has the arts organization engaged the community in designing the development called thinkEAST?..."

April 3, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Dismantling Family Planning Pt. 2

House budget amendment would subvert access to reproductive services

"...Chisum, R-Pampa, is now proposing an amendment that women's health care advocates say would completely undo the state's system..."

April 16, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

The New Texas Family Planning

Slashed budgets and anti-abortion politics undermine women's health care

"...Street clinic, which has offered family planning and reproductive health services to low-income and uninsured women since the early..."

Jan. 27, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Stay the COVID Course

Six months in, focus remains on Latinx health

"...At a press conference last week, doctors, public health officials, and COVID-19 survivors came together to urge local..."

Sept. 11, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Point Austin: Ounces of Prevention, Or

How is a Health Clinic Not Like an Investment Bank?

"...This might have been the year of health-care reform...."

Oct. 10, 2008 News Column by Michael King

Your Queer Guide to Austin

A crash course on the city's LGBTQ parties, prides, and resources

"...It’s also home to a thriving and jiving queer community – qmmunity if you will. But like many a..."

Sept. 5, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Sarah Marloff

Designing a Smarter City

New weeklong event celebrates city's creative community

"...Design Week, a five-day event focused on forging a community among local designers, but also on getting Austinites thinking..."

Nov. 4, 2016 News Feature by Robyn Ross

Point Austin: Healthy Town Hall

While we wait for federal reform, the health-care work goes on

"...Time for some good news about health care...."

Aug. 14, 2009 News Column by Michael King

Planned Parenthood Slashed Again

While patients lose health care, the state dumps money on unprepared clinics

"...yet received a contract from the Department of State Health Services allotting the health-care organization's funding for this fiscal..."

Oct. 6, 2006 News Feature by Jordan Smith

CHIPs Are Down

Millions of children could lose their health care, thanks to Congress

"...County kids – may no longer have access to health care if Congress doesn't act soon. Tied up conceiving..."

Nov. 3, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Defund Planned Parenthood ... Jeopardize Lives

Lege contemplates cutting funding for cancer screenings

"...pain coupled with bleeding last April troubled an otherwise healthy Gay Norman. If it weren't for the recent loss..."

Feb. 13, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Austin Enters Stage 5 of COVID Risk Guidelines

More important than ever to mask up, urge health officials

"...Local health officials announced today that Austin and Travis County have..."

Jan. 6, 2022 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Sendero’s Path Forward

Community health plan gets one-year budget reprieve

"...In front of a packed audience of Sendero Health Plans customers and supporters, Central Health's board of managers..."

Sept. 28, 2018 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Making Patients – and Sendero – Whole

Central Health aims for quality care and better finances for nonprofit health plan

"...part of its renewed attempt to save the Sendero Health Plans program, which provides health insurance coverage for about..."

Dec. 28, 2018 News Feature by Michael King

New Campaign Renews Pro-Choice Fight

New reproductive health policy campaign seeks to reverse damage of anti-choice laws

"...the ACLU of Texas, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health (NLIRH), NARAL Pro-Choice Texas, Planned Parenthood Texas Votes, Texas..."

Feb. 20, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

HB 2 Trial [Updated]

Abortion providers argue for health, safety of women

"...of Texas’ abortion-restrictive House Bill 2, a local reproductive health provider recounted the increased instances of state regulator visits..."

Aug. 5, 2014 News Post by Mary Tuma

Coalition to Advocate for Increased Family Planning Funding

Full funding will increase state savings

"...way, serious questions persist about the future of women's health care funding – and there's a new player in..."

Jan. 25, 2013 News Post by Jordan Smith

Kissing Is Out, Glory Holes Are In for Students During Pandemic

Austin health professions talk safe sex practices

"...Fear not. Health care professionals across the city are equipped with best..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Features Feature by Nataleah Small

Qmmunity: Cooking Up Qmmunity Love

Plus, allgo's community healing fair, Poo Poo Platter, and more queer events

"...allgo Community Healing Fair Join allgo for its fifth annual community..."

March 12, 2021 Column by Beth Sullivan

Opinion: Over 200,000 Asian People in Central Texas Feel the Heartache of Georgia. Do You?

Central Texas leaders and community members should stand against anti-Asian hate through specific actions

"...culturally specific human services like AFSSA and Austin Asian Community Health Initiative...."

April 2, 2021 Column by Darlene Lanham

I Pee With LGBT

Richard Linklater debuts ad denouncing the Texas bathroom bill

"...Linklater collaborated with ACLU of Texas, GSD&M, and Legacy Community Health on a commercial denouncing Texas’ proposed bathroom bill...."

Feb. 22, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Courtney Naquin

Article Wrong About FQHCs

"...Jordan Smith [News], in the Jan. 27 Austin Chronicle. Community health centers, also known as Federally Qualified Health Centers..."

Feb. 1, 2006 Postmarks

The Opportunity to Reimagine Public Safety Is Here Right Now. Will Austin Take It?

“We want everything that can be done outside of the police, to be done outside of the police.”

"...City Council certainly sounded thankful for the recommendations the City-Community Reimagining Public Safety Task Force had just laid at..."

April 30, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Eastern Crescent’s Path to Get Past Pandemic Is Rough

Finding a way out proves elusive for East Austin and beyond

"...COVID crisis has exposed and entrenched Central Texas' long-standing health and social disparities. The worst impacts of the disease..."

March 19, 2021 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Questions of Church-State Separation at Dell Seton Medical Center

Do the hospital’s ties to the Catholic church and limits on women’s reproductive health care compromise Dell Med students' training?

"...coming: After heavy lobbying and public outreach from key community figures like state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, voters passed..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

The Custody Battle at Brackenridge

Seton's plan to build its own pediatrics facility throws a monkey wrench into the proposed hospital district.

"...more satisfying moments at the helm of the Seton Healthcare Network. Two weeks earlier, Seton had touched off shock..."

Nov. 22, 2002 News Feature by Amy Smith

How and Why the City and County Chose to Cancel SXSW

Striking precarious, if unachievable, balance between protecting public health and avoiding economic calamity

"...and Eckhardt were receiving from the panel of local health advisors tasked with tracking the growth of the virus..."

March 13, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Playback: Patio Smoking Ban in Flames

The Central Health Equity Policy Council's efforts to ban smoking on smoking patios meets with community resistance

"...bars and restaurants, flared up again with the Central Health Equity Policy Council's proposal to eradicate cigarette smoking on..."

Aug. 19, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

The Road to 10-1 ... Is Getting Crowded [Updated May 12]

As May money season opens, candidates blossom

"...property manager Experience: city commissioner (urban transportation, urban renewal); health and human services administrator; Council candidate (2005) Issues: health..."

May 2, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

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