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Taking Stock: The 2023 Regular Session
Over nearly five full months, THA advanced policy that furthered hospitals and health care across Texas, while absorbing relentless fire trained on…
Cap Recap
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.
Taking Stock: The 2023 Regular Session
Over nearly five full months, THA advanced policy that furthered hospitals and health care across Texas, while absorbing relentless fire trained on hospitals at the same time. https://youtu.be/cBjDuU_1lzU In short,…
‘We Really Can’t Afford to Lose Any More’
Workplace violence can change a hospital worker’s life in a horrifying flash – whether that moment involves a gunshot or even an unarmed violent outburst. Hospital workers will often rebound…
The THA 10: Highlighting Legislation Most Important to Texas Hospitals
About midway through the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, the Texas Hospital Association is tracking more than 1,600 pieces of legislation. If you’re a normal person, you don’t have…
Managing Myths: The Facts About Texas Hospitals
An unfortunate reality in today’s world of fast-spreading information is, well, misinformation. With the internet and social media affording a potentially unvetted voice to just about everyone, misinformation is –…
Tell Congress to Keep Our Safety Net Wide and Strong
If there’s one theme you’ve seen me come back to in this column in the past year or so, it’s this one: Hospitals need help. Up in Washington, D.C., congressional…
Vaccines Save Lives; Let’s Make Sure Texas Law Reflects That
It wasn’t long ago that that overwhelming numbers of people across Texas and the nation – on all sides of the political spectrum – knew and acknowledged that vaccines prevent…
Managing Myths: The Facts About Texas Hospitals
An unfortunate reality in today’s world of fast-spreading information is, well, misinformation. With the internet and social media affording a potentially unvetted voice to just about everyone, misinformation is –…
The Numbers Are In: Our Hospital Workforce Needs Serious Help
Three years after the beginning of the pandemic, hospitals have started to put the pieces back together and take inventory of COVID-19’s wide-ranging, long-lasting impact on health care. That process…
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