The 21-Year-Gap

Exploring how life expectancies vary across Houston-area neighborhoods. Houston is home to the world’s biggest medical center, which includes the largest children’s hospital, the nation’s top-ranked cancer hospital, and internationally recognized pioneers in research and medicine. Yet, if you drive less than five miles southeast of the Texas Medical Center, you will find clusters of … Read more

EHF releases annual Evaluation Report

From the beginning, EHF has been dedicated to being transparent and measuring the true impact of our work to create healthier communities in Texas through publishing our evaluation reports.

New learning collaborative aims to find best ways for health plans to address underlying, non-medical causes of poor health for Medicaid patients in Texas

EHF and a group of health sector stakeholders has launched a new learning collaborative designed to help Texas Medicaid health insurance plans develop and implement strategies to focus on access to healthy food, housing conditions, transportation, and other social factors that often have a direct impact on a person’s health.