Editor’s Note: Our March issue covered the background of county indigent health care, patient eligibility, and county jail inmates. The following completes our two-part series. In 1985, Rita Kelley was serving as the regional planner of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services for the seven-county Central Texas Council of Governments (CTCOG) region. In June of that year, Walt Reedy, … [Read More]
Featured Story
Creating an Emergency Services District
By Cliff Avery SAFE-D Executive Director Even in these tax-averse times, people want to make sure their emergency services are reliably funded. At any … [Read More]
Featured Story
County Budget Calendar Guides Complex Process 2019
On March 13th, the Grimes County Commissioners Court voted to officially approve the Fiscal Year 2020 Grimes County Budget Calendar. Acting on a suggestion made … [Read More]
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Win-Win Employee Wellness Centers Reap Multiple Benefits
When using the analogy of “the domino effect,” the prompted image is of dominoes falling down. However, when it comes to employee health clinics, the metaphor works in reverse. As per the definition, … [Read More]
Safe Haven for Kids
Commissioners Court Awards Funding Shelter to Officially Open This Month
In December 2018, the Hidalgo County Commissioners Court approved $75,000 in funding for the county's only live-in emergency shelter for abused children. Safe Haven for Kids has been providing … [Read More]
Bee County Inmate/Indigent Health Care
Fine-Tuned Process Maximizes Cost Savings
When Bee County Judge Stephanie Moreno was appointed in 2015, one of her chief priorities was to address the burgeoning, and seemingly uncontrollable, cost of inmate health care. “It was the first … [Read More]
