If the state’s health agencies have been willing โย until found out โ to let their own employees work in squalor, should the rest of us be asking more questions about how they’re watching out for us?
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At town hall, health services commissioner tells state employees mold-infested building “not unsafe”
The Texas Tribune obtained a recording of a town hall meeting with Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner John Hellerstedt and state workers nearly two weeks after they were relocated from the Austin State Hospital 636 building where a mold infestation had invaded their workspace.
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TribCast
TribCast: Looming family reunification deadlines and moldy state office buildings
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Emma about Texas’ mold-infested state health services building, whether the feds will meet a court-ordered deadline for migrant family reunifications and why some Republican statewide officials have no incentive to debate their Democratic opponents.
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Texas health agency to vacate mold-infested building
Texas Department of State Health Services employees are being relocated from the Austin State Hospital 636 building where a mold infestation has invaded their desks, chairs, carpeting and keyboard hand rests. The news comes one day after The Texas Tribune reported the mold incursion.
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Texas health building invaded by mold, raising health concerns
Workers have found mold infiltrating their desks, chairs and keyboard hand rests in the Austin State Hospital 636 building. The state has spent nearly $16,000 fighting the mold so far.
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Texas fetal remains burial trial gets underway
The law at the center of the case is Senate Bill 8, passed in 2017, which requires the burial or cremation of fetal remains.
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Dangerous Deliveries
In Poland, midwives play a significant role in childbirth. In Texas? Not so much.
Poland and Texas have comparable populations, conservative governments and stringent anti-abortion policies. But they differ significantly in how health care is delivered for women โ and in the role they allow midwives to play in the childbirth process.
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State auditor finds more contracting errors made by health agencies
The State Auditorโs Office released a 30-page report on Monday showing the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and the Department of State Health Services bungled a contract with Genesis Systems Inc.
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Report: Texas’ maternal deaths were dramatically lower in 2012 under new methodology
Some of the stateโs top health experts released a report in the medical journal Obstetrics & Gynecology on Monday that used a new method for counting โ and found that the number of women who died dropped from 147 to 56.
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Texas clinics flooded with โtsunamiโ of flu patients โ and the season may not have peaked yet
More than 4,000 Texans have died from flu-related illnesses this season, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
