HOUSTON – The Episcopal Health Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Lisa Madry as its Diocesan Engagement Officer.

Madry comes to the Foundation with more than 20 years in leadership roles in community development. She is a life-long Episcopalian, has been an active lay leader at St James’ Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, and has been active for many years in outreach ministry.

Lisa has a deep commitment to social justice, faith–based community organizing and adult leadership development, and is a recipient of President George H. W. Bush’s Points of Light Award.

Her work at EHF will focus on working with more than 150 congregations and the leadership of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas to support
community health transformation.

While most Texans used healthcare.gov earlier this year to get information or to enroll in a health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), larger percentages of Texans found talking to the call center or a navigator was the most helpful. Those are just some of the lessons learned in a report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Episcopal Health Foundation leaders today
announced a detailed plan to improve community health across 57 Texas
counties. The plan was introduced during a presentation at Iglesia Episcopal San
Mateo in Houston. The new $1.2 billion foundation believes its One Vision, Three
Goals, Seven Strategies plan will help transform the health of families most in
need through a different way of philanthropy.

The cost of monthly premiums for health insurance plans for Texans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) can vary by hundreds of dollars, depending on a person’s income and the level of coverage chosen, according to a report released today by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

The percentage of Texans without health insurance dropped after the first enrollment period of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Half of Texans who are eligible for premium subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, and who looked for health plans in the ACA Insurance Marketplace, say costs were the main reason they didn’t enroll in a plan. That’s just one of the findings in a report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

After extensive searches, the Episcopal Health Foundation has named its senior leadership team, Elena Marks, president and CEO of the Foundation, announced. Marks, an attorney and health policy scholar at Rice University’s Baker Institute, joined the Foundation in January of this year.

Almost all adult Texans were aware of the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace before the open-enrollment period ended March 31, according to a report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.