Preserving Critical Funding For Texas Trauma Hospitals Is Focus Of Senate Bill

Texas Hospitals Testify in Support

(April 11) Funding for Texas’ designated trauma hospitals is the focus of a bill that will be heard in the Texas Senate Finance Committee today. John Hawkins, senior vice president of government relations at the Texas Hospital Association, will testify in support of Senate Bill 918, by Sen. Joan Huffman (R-Houston) ...

Texas House Moves to Preserve Critical Funding for Texas Trauma Hospitals

Texas Hospitals Testify in Support

(April 3) Funding for Texas’ 283 trauma hospitals is the focus of a bill that will be heard in the Texas House of Representatives Homeland Security & Public Safety Committee today. John Hawkins, senior vice president of government relations at the Texas Hospital Association, will testify in support of House Bill 2048, by Rep. John Zerwas (R-Richmond) ...

Texas Hospitals Realize Gains From Quality and Patient Safety Investments

(March 26) Continuing several years of progress, Texas hospitals again reported improvements in health care quality and patient safety, according to new data on health care acquired infections from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Protecting the Availability of Hospital Emergency Care is Subject of Texas House Hearing

Texas Hospitals Support Clarification of State Law

(March 25) Ensuring that Texas hospitals receive fair reimbursement for health care services provided to a patient injured because of another’s fault or negligence is the subject of a hearing today in the Texas House Committee on the Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence ...