Talk to Frank Beaman about the latest legislative push to eliminate the way hospital clinics pay for just about every facet of their operation, and it doesn’t take much to get him riled up on the topic. Beaman is the CEO of Faith Community Hospital in Jacksboro, one of hundreds of hospitals and health systems serving rural areas in Texas.…
Each week during the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, The Scope’s Cap Recap will take a quick look at the previous week’s most hospital-relevant news under the Pink Dome in Austin.
Updated Feb. 4, 2025. (Originally published Feb. 2024.) For health care facilities all over Texas, a day of reflection on the heroes and the fallen of the COVID-19 pandemic will tap into memories at polar ends – sadness and happiness, inevitable despair and improbable elation. That’s how it is for Sherri Abendroth as her hospital system, DHR Health in the…
As a new administration and a new Congress get settled, health care implications abound. Here’s what THA is tracking in Washington, D.C., in the early days of 2025.
Even as modern politics continues to be synonymous with turbulence and even occasional outright wildness, the Texas Hospital Association is pursuing a smooth landing and a sensibly realized bottom line as the 89th state legislative session takes flight beginning today. THA’s intended landing spot: action from the Texas Legislature on a broad range of priorities to help hospitals not only…
Last week’s general election brought clarity for the Texas Hospital Association on what kind of legislative environment THA and other hospital advocates will be navigating both in Austin and in Washington, D.C. – even as the dust continues to disperse in the latter, with some congressional winners still unknown as votes are counted. Here’s a look at what the election…
When Hollywood – and one of TV’s preeminent creators of this decade – came to Faith Community Hospital in Jacksboro to film part of a new series debuting this month, the facility pulled off a notable feat: switching between medical setting and television filming location with little warning. Over a handful of days last February and May, Taylor Sheridan –…
Caring for the entirety of a large state with a large uninsured population requires a huge collective effort by Texas hospitals – one that runs in the billions of dollars each year. Charity care – free or discounted care for patients who are unable to pay – is a perennial staple in a state where 5 million people don’t have…
In the broadest sense of the word, Texas hospitals equal health. Not just in the obvious, medical sense – tied to health care facilities’ mission to keep Texans living and thriving – but also economic health. Hospitals net jobs from Lubbock to Laredo. They generate millions in economic activity from Midland to Mount Pleasant. For reasons that certainly include healing…
After this November’s election, a busy “lame duck” session will likely revisit site-neutral payments, pending deep Medicaid cuts and many more issues on hospitals’ radar.
