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Sobriety center plans advance through the county Posted: October 14th, 2015 By Caleb Pritchard, Austin Monitor Travis County Commissioners have taken another big step toward the creation of a sobriety center that would serve as an alternative to jail for the region’s dangerously intoxicated. The court has voted to request the cost estimate of converting […]

A different kind of care package Posted: October 8th, 2015 By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post The U.S. health care system is in a revolution that is starting to reconsider its antiquated model for training doctors. The Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin is taking a radical teaching approach and […]

McDermott: Early mental health intervention crucial for kids and teens Posted: September 24th, 2015 By Louise McDermott, Special to the American – Statesman According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), approximately 50 percent of all lifetime cases of mental illness begin by 14, but the average delay between onset of symptoms and receiving […]

UT Dell med school can cut employers’ health costs, Harvard prof says Posted: October 1, 2015 By Chad Swiatecki, Austin Business Journal Staff Writer Last month the Dell Medical School recruited Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter for a day-long seminar on how health care systems and businesses interact, where he told attendees that the […]

How public support of the Dell Medical School is transforming health care in Travis County The 2015 Community Benefit Report is the first annual update to Travis County taxpayers on the ways the 2012 Proposition 1 election, which includes funding for the Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, is directly contributing […]

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Former CEO of Regenstrief to chair new Department of Population Health at Dell Medical School Posted: August 28th, 2015 By Forrest Milburn, The Daily Texan Beginning in January, William Tierney will chair the newly formed Department of Population Health at the Dell Medical School. Tierney previously served as the CEO and president of the Regenstrief […]

This op/ed was published in the Austin American-Statesman on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015.   Imagine supporting a family of three on $1,000 a month. What sacrifices would you need to make to survive? How would you pay medical bills if you became sick? Would it be possible to support yourself and loved ones without assistance? […]

AUSTIN — Healthy ATC (Austin/Travis County) is a collaboration of Travis County Health & Human Services & Veterans Services Department, City of Austin Health & Human Services Department, and Central Health to plan together, share public data, and align goals & activities specific to priority health indicators and social determinants of health. The new web […]