Expansion of Telemedicine Authorized Recent legislation authorizing expansion of telemedicine in Texas should enable counties to achieve significant cost reduction and improved services in jail health services and indigent health care. Senate Bill 1107, effective Jan. 1, 2018, removed prior restrictions and increased the availability of telehealth services. Previously, the … [Read more...] about General Counsel’s Report
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Employee Clinic Promotes Healthy Workforce, Healthy Bottom Line
What started as a one-room clinic in the basement of the Jefferson County Courthouse in 1999 has grown into a multiservice employee health clinic that has outgrown its location two times. The Jefferson County Employee Health Department Clinic was the first county employee clinic in the State of Texas. The brainchild of former Jefferson County Judge Carl Griffith, the clinic … [Read more...] about Employee Clinic Promotes Healthy Workforce, Healthy Bottom Line