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Barnes explains why EHF believes that prioritizing food/nutrition security, maternal health, and diabetes prevention can start a ripple effect of good health in Texas.

NEW VIDEO explains how the successful program is leading to dramatic improvements in health outcomes and strengthening early relational health for mothers and infants affected by substance abuse and trauma.

See the new video highlighting work being done by the six community sites participating in EHF’s Texas Accountable Communities for Health Initiative.

See why the high rates of diabetes across the state is one reason why EHF’s new Strategic Framework now prioritizes food/nutrition security and diabetes prevention.

With EHF’s announcement of a new Strategic Framework, the foundation will spend time in 2024 developing specific strategies and tactics that will guide our grantmaking and other programming and research objectives for the following five years.

The new grants will help organizations across Texas work with members across their communities to advocate for health and adopt new ways of solving health-related problems.

Almost 7 out of 10 Texans say they skipped or postponed medical care in the past year because of cost. That’s just one of the worrying results of a new statewide EHF poll.

EHF’s Shao-Chee Sim takes an early look at nonprofit capacity to partner with Managed Care Organizations in addressing NMDOH needs of Medicaid beneficiaries, including key takeaways from four EHF-funded research reports.

TACHI is changing the way Texas thinks about health by focusing on multi-sector partnerships. Watch how the TACHI site in Williamson County is helping address underlying, non-medical needs for pregnant women.

EHF’s Dr. Ann Barnes says the health and economic prosperity of Texans are deeply intertwined with policy choices, and Medicaid in Texas is a clear example.

In GIH’s View from the Field, EHF’s Shao Chee Sim shares lessons learned as we worked to change policies and advance funding to address non-medical drivers of health — an effort to not only change the way state agencies think about health, but how they pay for it.