Texas Health and Human Services Commission officials said in an email that “it has become clear that the Heidi Group is unable to come into compliance” and that the organization would no longer be part of the state’s Family Planning Program or the Healthy Texas Women program as of Dec. 11.
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Abbott taps Nebraska official to lead Health and Human Services Commission
Courtney Phillips currently leads the Department of Health and Human Services in Nebraska.
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TribCast
TribCast: Slow family reunifications, Cruz-O’Rourke TV ads
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Marissa and Emma about moldy, rat-infested state office buildings, family reunifications at the border, TV ads in the U.S. Senate race and a Republican state lawmaker’s tough words for the Texas governor.
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Analysis: Other than the mold and the rats, it’s a picture of health
If the state’s health agencies have been willing — until found out — 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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Health care
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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Families Divided
Number of children in Texas shelters continues to grow after end of “zero tolerance”
Even after the Trump administration said it would reunify families separated under the now-paused “zero tolerance” policy, new data shows the number of children held in privately run shelters in Texas has continued to grow.
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Health care
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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Health care
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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Health care
State audit finds billion-dollar errors in Texas health agency’s contracting process
The new audit is yet another scandal at an agency plagued by contracting woes. Six of the commission’s leaders have left in the last several months.
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Health care
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.
