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Design Institute for Health applies creative design to health care challenges Posted: Wednesday, April 20, 2016 By VERA BESPALOVA, The Daily Texan The Design Institute of Health’s executive director Stacey Chang and managing director Beto Lopez recently spoke to UT students and faculty about their organization. The DIH is the result of a collaboration between […]

Ensuring all Travis County residents have access to health care is a 24/7 effort that occurs not only in hospitals and clinics, but also in homeless shelters and bridge underpasses, on street corners, at churches, on campus, and in jail-the issues alluded to in our April 3 Austin American-Statesman editorial. To help bring these stories […]

Austin event combines tech, health care, venture capital Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 By Christopher Calnan, Staff Writer – Austin Business Journal The Dell Medical School has announced an upcoming conference it has organized that will not only focus on health care, but also technology, and venture capital as well. It’s scheduled to be in […]

Central Health: A community can’t be affordable unless it’s healthy Posted: Saturday, April 2, 2016 By Patricia Young Brown – Special to the American-Statesman Central Health President and CEO Patricia Young Brown makes the case for inclusivehealth care being an integral point in any local discussion of an “affordability solution” in this opinion piece for […]

This op-ed originally appeared in the Sunday, April 3 edition of the Austin American-Statesman   Our Community is booming, and for many people this is a problem. A robust economy, skilled workforce, and high quality of life are magnets drawing new employers, developers and tens-of-thousands of people to Travis County and Austin every year. These […]

No foolin’ we’re getting Austin moving. Join the Mayor and the City of Austin, as they begin the 2016 Million Mile Month®  AUSTIN (March 29, 2016) – In celebration of Million Mile Month everyone is encouraged to begin his or her fitness journey of 10,000 steps starting April 1. Austinites know it’s easy to start but how […]

In continuing with our values of stewardship and collaboration, we jumped at the opportunity to tap into the creative energy that abounds at SXSW Interactive. With its myriad of attendees from all parts of the world with unique perspectives, we decided to hold a brainstorming session, Austin-style, to help steer our biggest undertaking so far: […]

From our partners at Austin Travis County Integral Care  Judge Guy Herman Center for Mental Health Crisis Care Breaks Ground First-of-its-kind center in Travis County will expand access to mental health care Austin—Officials from Austin Travis County Integral Care, Central Health and St. David’s Foundation joined members of the law enforcement and mental health communities today […]

Austin metro area surpasses 2 million residents Posted: Thursday, March 24th, 2016 By James Barragan – American-Statesman Staff According to U.S. Census Bureau numbers released this past week, the Austin metro area is officially home to more than 2 million people, making it the fastest-growing metropolitan area with a population over 1 million for the […]

AUSTIN — Capitalizing on the healthcare transformation already underway in Austin, community leaders have created a new non-profit entity to foster the development of an Innovation Zone on the eastern edge of downtown, Sen. Kirk Watson and Austin Mayor Steve Adler announced Friday. Read the full press release on Senator Kirk Watson’s website