News
November 17, 2022
(Austin) – Central Health’s Board of Managers honored departing board members Sherri Greenberg, M.S., and Julie Zuniga, R.N., PhD, FAAN, with a resolution during Wednesday’s meeting. Manager Greenberg joined the board in Feb. 2015 and served as Vice Chair from Jan. 2018 to Dec. 2019 and Board Chair from Jan. 2020 to Dec. 2021. She […]
September 27, 2022
$305m budget offers more healthcare access for Travis County Residents with low income (Austin) – The Travis County Commissioners Court voted to approve Central Health’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 budget and tax rate Tuesday. The $305,358,237 budget includes more than $290 million for healthcare delivery, a $90.5 million increase over FY 2022 while lowering the […]
September 22, 2022
New Health & Wellness Facilities Will Serve Eastern Travis County (Austin) – Construction has begun on Central Health’s new Health & Wellness Centers that will serve patients in Eastern Travis County beginning next year. After completing the permitting process, construction began this week on the new health and wellness centers in Hornsby Bend, 3700 Gilbert […]
September 6, 2022
Renovated Rosewood-Zaragosa Clinic will help fill gaps in specialty care for Medical Access Program members (AUSTIN) — Central Health announced Wednesday it is transforming the historic Rosewood-Zaragosa health center into a new state-of-the art specialty care clinic, slated to open in fall 2023, to serve Medical Access Program (MAP) members. MAP and MAP Basic are […]
August 26, 2022
New Plan Calls for $85M Spending Increase in Patient Services (AUSTIN) — Central Health is proposing numerous, significant expansions to healthcare services for Travis County residents with low income in its Fiscal Year 2023 budget. These expansions are the direct result of years of planning, culminating in the recently adopted Healthcare Equity Plan. To support […]
August 24, 2022
Get more information about our FY 2023 budget. PROPOSED TAX RATE $0.098684 per $100 NO-NEW-REVENUE TAX RATE $0.092372 per $100 VOTER-APPROVAL TAX RATE $0.100506 per $100 The no-new-revenue tax rate is the tax rate for the 2022 tax year that will raise the same amount of property tax revenue for the Travis County Healthcare […]
August 16, 2022
(AUSTIN) — Central Health is inviting the public to weigh in on its Fiscal Year 2023 budget priorities. Central Health will hold the final of three Community Conversations this week where Travis County residents can learn how the organization is building a comprehensive healthcare system to improve the health of county residents with low income. […]
August 15, 2022
The new contracts will expand options and access to care for MAP members AUSTIN – In a continued effort to address the opioid epidemic in Central Texas, Central Health signed a new contract to begin offering methadone treatment services for substance use disorder. According to the Travis County Medical Examiner’s Office Annual Report, drugs were […]
August 10, 2022
(Austin) — Central Health Equity Policy (CHEP) Council announced Wednesday it is convening several Travis County health organizations to embrace the tenets of the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Healthcare Equality Index (HEI), a national benchmarking tool for healthcare organizations to evaluate their level of care for the LGBTQIA+ community. A news conference introducing this initiative […]
August 2, 2022
(AUSTIN) — Central Health is inviting the public to weigh in on its Fiscal Year 2023 budget priorities. Central Health will hold three Community Conversations beginning this week where Travis County residents can learn how the organization is building a comprehensive healthcare system to improve the health of county residents with low income. Residents will […]