Finding Funds for School Mental Health

Foundations help save 16 campus-based clinics

"...More than a dozen campus-based mental health care facilities that were facing closure in the Austin..."

Oct. 19, 2018 News Feature by Austin Sanders

The Future of Health Care?

Dell and Central Health "re-think" the way we provide – and pay for – health care

"...printed reports on the patients' overall physical and emotional health. Most of the latter were derived from prior questionnaires..."

March 24, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

Dell Med School Debate Over Use of Funds Continues

Fred Lewis won’t quit HEALTH fight with Travis County

"...Medical School. A group of local activists calling itself HEALTH for Travis County issued a report describing the medical..."

Feb. 17, 2017 News Feature by Michael King

AISD’s Therapy Provider Struggles to Meet Demand Amid Mental Health Crisis

Students and parents find help is out of reach

"...had hired Gramercy Specialty Clinic as its new mental health services vendor until Decem­ber 2021, almost a year after..."

April 15, 2022 News Feature by Morgan O’Hanlon

The State of Trans Health Care

Gender affirming care in Austin is improving. But by how much? And how far must it still go?

"...down to training. In Central Texas, medical and mental health care providers often receive little to no instruction on..."

April 14, 2017 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

Local, State Health Leaders Try to Keep Up with COVID-19

Six known cases in Travis County but actual number likely higher

"...try to head off what may be a looming healthcare crisis in Central Texas and across the country, driven..."

March 16, 2020 News Post by Margaret Nicklas

Health Care Needs Your Help to Slow COVID-19’s Spread

Keep your distance

"...the Chronicle went to press, the Department of State Health Services reported 83 cases spread across 19 counties, although..."

March 20, 2020 News Feature by Margaret Nicklas

Naked City

Early warning signs suggested that recently resigned health commissioner Reyn Archer was a few bricks shy of a full load.

"...Photo labs for personal use installed in the health department's administrative offices. A proposal to add a "Commissioner..."

Nov. 3, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

SBOE: A Green Challenge?

Green Party candidate Lesley Ramsey aims to bring progressive values to the right-wing State Board of Education.

"...time away from her full-time job (as a women's health care advocate) to travel across the district, Ramsey is..."

Oct. 18, 2002 News Feature by Lauri Apple

All but Illegal

As the final provisions of HB 2 loom, Texas abortion clinics brace for closure

"...didn't care about the truth; didn't care about our health; didn't care if we lived or died – it..."

July 25, 2014 News Feature by Mary Tuma

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?

"...the way to a local partnership between Catholic-based Seton Health­care Family and Travis County's Central Health. The two entities..."

Jan. 20, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Crisis Pregnancy Centers: Money for Nothing

Despite unprecedented taxpayer investment, state-funded CPCs deliver few services

"...using vague language and even positioning themselves near abortion clinics to confuse vulnerable women, CPCs lure clients with the..."

July 20, 2018 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Paying Doctor

Federal Insurance Program Could Aid Texas' Youth

"...Dr. Celia Neavel, director of adolescent health services at the People's Health Clinic photograph by Jana..."

Dec. 26, 1997 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Assisted Suicide?

The Demise of the Clinics

"...Daryl Slusher, and protegés of the creed that public health care for indigents should be government orthodoxy. The battleground:..."

Aug. 2, 1996 News Column by Alex de Marban

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...rolled into town again last week, and the city's health clinics are being dragged along kicking and screaming. City..."

Aug. 15, 1997 News Feature

Report: WHP Planned Parenthood Ban Puts Patients in Jeopardy

GWU report questions HHSC analysis of ban

"...Community health centers will have to expand significantly in order to..."

May 3, 2012 News Post by Jordan Smith

Providers Fight Another Texas Abortion Ban

Health risks and pain for patients

"...Whole Woman's Health medical director Dr. Bhavik Kumar oversees four Texas abortion..."

Nov. 10, 2017 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Point Austin: Thoughts After Celebration

Beneath the rockets' red glare, the costs of our Iraq misadventure mount

"...and it doesn't include certain indirect costs, like future health care for wounded veterans. (Nor does it include funding..."

July 8, 2005 News Column by Michael King

Cured HAAM

Health Alliance for Austin Musicians is now served

"...up on this first night of eligibility for the Health Alliance for Austin Musicians. The new SIMS headquarters, a..."

May 13, 2005 Music Feature by Matt Dentler

Beside the Point: Absence of Evidence Is Evidence of Ignorance

As we become submerged in factless policy-making, a request to return to reason

"...state's most vulnerable women. Its final regulation, which demands clinics spend millions for hospital-like building changes, would shutter all..."

July 24, 2015 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Austin Reenters Stage 4 of COVID-19 Precautions

Fully vaccinated residents should mask up, urge health officials

"...Today, July 23, Austin Public Health announced Austin and Travis County have reentered Stage 4..."

July 23, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Paxton Bans State Employees From Donating Pay to Planned Parenthood

But they can still donate to an anti-choice group

"...the relationship between Planned Parenthood and government entities, reproductive health advocates worried not only about the direct damage the..."

Jan. 13, 2020 News Post by Mary Tuma

Looking at the Lege After a Flaccid Special Session

Alpha males Abbott and Patrick can't get their red meat passed

"...on East Seventh Street, a clinic that offers preventive health care, not abortion ("Lege Bills Target Local Planned Parenthood..."

Aug. 18, 2017 News Feature by the News Staff

Barbara's Fire

Attorney, teacher, and veteran fighter for freedom, Barbara Hines retires from a career mentoring students

"...has steadily and severely limited access to women's reproductive health clinics, creating draconian rules that have forced many operators..."

Dec. 12, 2014 News Feature by Tony Cantú

Postmarks

Contradictions Exposed

"...difficult for them to affirm their identities and become healthy adults, or perhaps even to survive into adulthood. Roberts'..."

Jan. 10, 1997 Column

Two APD Officers Indicted for Murder in 2019 Shooting of Mauris DeSilva

Death led to calls for better mental health crisis response

"...who was brandishing a knife while undergoing a mental health crisis on July 31, 2019 at the Spring Condominiums..."

Aug. 27, 2021 News Post by Austin Sanders

At Threshold of Stage Five COVID Precautions, ICU Bed Capacity Is Critically Low

Health Authority Desmar Walkes: "We are running out of time"

"...Tonight Austin Public Health issued a dire message to the people of Austin..."

July 30, 2021 News Post by Beth Sullivan

Naked City

"...David's Trinity Center, Caritas, Casa Marianella, the city's homeless health clinics, A New Entry, VinCare Services, Austin/Travis County Mental..."

May 25, 2007 News Feature

All the Right Moves

Democrat Donna Howard faces self-proclaimed moderate Republican Cynthia Thornton in the general election for Austin's seat on the State Board of Education

"...things," says Thornton. She does believe, however, that school health clinics should not be allowed to provide "government-controlled, pre-abortion"..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Naked City

Off the Desk:

"...the province have burned 13 churches, 166 homes, two health clinics, and 29 other buildings. The report was compiled..."

June 5, 1998 News Feature

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