The report from the Institute for Medicaid Innovation looks at best practices for providing equitable access to COVID vaccines, increasing access to food and housing, improving maternal health, and more for Medicaid enrollees.
EHF’s largest single grant cycle to date will fund innovative projects helping clinics and organizations go beyond the doctor’s office, focus on non-medical causes of poor health like food insecurity, poverty, unsafe housing, and more.
Organizations from the six community sites selected for EHF’s Texas Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (TACHI) met in Houston for an important convening to learn evidence-informed strategies for putting health equity strategies to use.
The newly-released report by SIREN explores practices from four Community Health Centers in Texas and is funded by EHF.
Just $10 and 10 lbs. of produce a week can lead to meaningful improvements in kids’ diets, shows a new JAMA Network Open study led by Dell Medical School’s Factor Health program funded by EHF.
Brian Sasser discusses EHF’s latest Texas Health Policy Poll on health care access and affordability, including Texans’ views on health insurance, Medicaid expansion, skipping care due to cost, plus much more.
EHF’s founding CEO talked about her upcoming retirement, how EHF’s mission will only become more important, and why the conversation about health care has changed for the better.
A record number of Texans enrolled in Afforable Care Act health insurance for 2022 thanks in large part to the greatest amount of federal financial assistance available to date to help pay for monthly premiums. That’s one of the findings of EHF’s analysis of new ACA health insurance enrollment data.
As founding CEO, Marks turned $1 billion ‘bold idea’ into a nationally recognized philanthropic organization changing the conversation on health in Texas.
Previously funded projects have reached 500,000+ Texans hesitant to vaccines with trusted information; Access efforts have directly vaccinated almost 20,000 people outside the health system.
What began as just an idea to improve early childhood brain development – with a seed grant from EHF – has developed into a scalable program that’s helping parents understand the long-term health impacts of interacting with their infants and supporting development of their healthy brains.
New grants to community-based organizations and clinics focus on innovative ways to build healthy brains during a child’s first three years.
