
TACHI convening focuses on engaging with community, building partnerships
Groups from six community sites participating in the Texas Accountable Communities for Health Initiative met in Austin.

Groups from six community sites participating in the Texas Accountable Communities for Health Initiative met in Austin.

The live podcast taping was part of Barnes’ appearance at the 2024 Texas Tribune Festival in Austin.

Barnes will be a panelist during a live taping of the KFF Health News “What the Health?” podcast.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health report looked at the impact on Texas just six months into the state’s unwinding of Medicaid’s continuous enrollment.

EHF’s continued thoughts and prayers are with all of those affected by recent storms across the state.
Nearly half of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) in Texas say they skipped or postponed medical care in the past year because of cost. In addition, the vast majority of AAPI Texans say that they live in communities without adequate non-medical resources that impact their health. Those are just some of the findings of EHF’s first-ever statewide survey of AAPI health experiences in Texas.
New video shows how EHF’s investments are being used at TGP’s community-based Parent Center program.

As we end #BlackMaternalHealthWeek (BMHW) 2024, we’re faced with alarming data that is a call to action. In Texas, Black Texans die from pregnancy-related causes at twice the rate of White Texans and four times the rate of Latino Texans. This is an inequitable and unacceptable health disparity for our entire state.

Preventable differences in health outcomes – which are closely linked to income, zip code, and race – are driving up health care costs and reducing work productivity across Texas, and the state’s economy is suffering more than $7 billion in annual losses because of it. For the first time, researchers estimate the local impact and county-level cost estimates of health disparities across the state.

Learn more about how your organization can join the program designed to support nonprofits with smaller budgets that historically may not have been able to access support to strengthen operational work.

EHF wraps up the latest cohort of the Collaborating for Healthy Communities Initiative.

EHF’s Dr. Ann Barnes says by going beyond the doctor’s office to impact the non-medical factors that impact health, EHF aims to address preventable health differences that are too often prevalent in Black communities.