After 36 years serving St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, and EHF — Celene Meyer retires from her distinguished role as director of grants management.
Texas just set a record in ACA health insurance enrollment. But in the state with the highest uninsured rate, EHF’s Brian Sasser writes that there’s a serious risk that we could be back where we started without crucial action.
During the open enrollment period for 2022 health coverage, more than 1.8 million Texans signed up for a health insurance plan using the ACA Marketplace.
Half of Texans say they’ve suffered financially because of COVID-19 and for many groups the economic impact is severe. Those are just some of the findings from Episcopal Health Foundation’s latest 2021 statewide survey on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across the state.
Through an application process, EHF will identify up to six coalitions to join the initial phase to help coalitions and multi-sector efforts deepen collaboration and get practical information for improving effectiveness and advancing practices.
EHF’s new guidance outlines EHF’s grant application process in 2022, including submission deadlines and new funding opportunities.
For work to address the challenges experienced and disparities made apparent by the COVID-19 pandemic, Philanthropy Southwest announced that EHF is the winner of its first-ever Groundbreaker Award.
New investment is aimed at activating communities to address health-related opportunities and challenges affecting their neighborhoods.
Learn about the latest grants, plus see how initial results from Your Shot Texas projects funded in June show progress in helping populations who have been most affected by the virus
Many Texans live in neighborhoods with unwalkable streets, few grocery stores, and unhealthy pollution. EHF’s award-winning Healthy Places Toolkit provides clinics and communities with ideas on how they can improve health outcomes by addressing many of these issues that are influenced by the places where we live.
Learn about the new capacity-building effort that aims to strengthen existing community groups that are working to improve health in Texas.
EHF’s Shao-Chee Sim and Jennifer Meier examine the disparate impact that COVID-19 had on non-medical factors affecting Black and Hispanic Texans compared to White Texans, confirming findings from a statewide survey of Texans’ views on the pandemic, and call for state leaders to take action to confront structural racial inequities.