Category: Digging Deeper

In November 2024, we collaborated with the Texas Department of State Health Services and the State Office of Rural Health within the Texas Department of Agriculture to host the Texas Community Paramedicine Roundtable. Our full-day convening allowed for rich discussion about the challenges and aspirations for community paramedicine in Texas.

EHF partnered with the Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty to map the landscape of Texas-based food organizations and identify potential partnership opportunities. The findings from these surveys and interviews offer valuable insights into strengthening partnerships between healthcare systems and community-based food organizations.

Learning about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Texas, formerly called ‘food stamps’, and its possible role in reducing obstacles to health and well-being is essential for our efforts to address food insecurity.

Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF) launched a partnership with key stakeholders more than six years ago to harness the capacity of MCOs in addressing non-medical needs of Medicaid members. The Learning Collaborative’s work has contributed to key legislation and policy changes that advance the NMDOH work of Medicaid MCOs to continually improve the health and well-being of their members.

EHF’s research team has released an updated and improved County Health Snapshots data mapping tool. EHF’s County Health Snapshots (CHS) tool provides a peek into the important demographic factors and health outcomes within the EDOT.

As a major health philanthropy in Texas, EHF has developed a diverse range of tools, both financial and non-financial, that help to improve the health of all Texans.

This year, EHF’s Research and Evaluation team launched “Digging Deeper,” collaborating with trusted partners to analyze the research topics and health trends that are central to EHF’s vision for a healthier Texas.

Crosscutting themes surfaced from EHF’s learning and exploration of diabetes prevention interventions. Opportunities exist to increase screening to address health disparities in prediabetes and diabetes and for Texas Medicaid to explore funding models to include the CDC’s National Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) as a reimbursable service with the intention to reduce diabetes among beneficiaries.