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For Immediate Release7/24/2020Urgent Request for Primary Care Reform sent to Gov Abbott in light of COVID-19
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Austin— 7/24/2020 --The Texas Primary Care Consortium (TPCC), a collaborative initiative led by Texas Health Institute and the Texas Medical Home Initiative, has joined forces with 40+ local, state and national organizations and several individuals who represent and serve millions of Texans to call for action to protect, reinvent, and reinvigorate primary care in Texas.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, TPCC sent an open letter to Governor Greg Abbott and the members of the Texas legislature outlining concerns and recommending actions. Accompanying the letter is a data-driven, evidence informed issue brief entitled "Primary Care in Texas: A call to action for an urgent consensus-based approach on primary care and health system transformation in Texas.” The issue brief was developed by Sue S. Bornstein, MD, FACP, Executive Director of Texas Medical Home Initiative and Ankit Sanghavi, BDS, MPH, Executive Director of Texas Health Institute.
“Despite the tremendous challenges imposed by the pandemic, we have an opportunity to chart a new path for primary care in Texas” explained Ankit Sanghavi, BDS, MPH, Executive Director, Texas Health Institute. A strong, well-resourced, and resilient primary care foundation is essential to an effective and efficient health system and is critical to ensuring the health of all individuals and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of long-standing issues facing primary care in Texas including an increasing chronic disease burden, growing uninsured and underinsured populations, growing health disparities, chronic and acute practitioner shortages, and payment models that do not support longitudinal and comprehensive primary care.
About Texas Primary Care Consortium-- The Texas Primary Care Consortium is a statewide collaborative initiative with a mission to advance accessible, continuous, and coordinated person-centered care for all Texans. We serve as the honest broker that brings together diverse stakeholders to discuss, identify, and address the multi-faceted challenges presented by our current healthcare system. Through multi-sector collaboration, we are able to identify research gaps, build capacity for pursing shared solutions, and inform policy efforts to improve the health of all Texans. The consortium is jointly led by Texas Health Institute and the Texas Medical Home Initiative.
Texas Health Institute (THI) is the non-profit, non-partisan public health institute in Texas. Since 1964, THI has served as a trusted, leading voice on public health and healthcare issues in Texas and the nation. Their expertise, strategies, and nimble approach makes them an integral and essential partner in driving systems change efforts. THI works across and within sectors to lead collaborative efforts and facilitate connections to foster systems that provide the opportunity for everyone to lead a healthy life.
Texas Medical Home Initiative (TMHI) is a non-profit, practitioner-led organization with a vision to see all Texans have access to a medical home. The mission is to develop, implement, evaluate, and promote the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of primary care delivery in Texas.
For more information, contact:
Ankit Sanghavi, BDS, MPH
asanghavi@texashealthinstitute.org
www.txprimarycareconsortium.org
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, TPCC sent an open letter to Governor Greg Abbott and the members of the Texas legislature outlining concerns and recommending actions. Accompanying the letter is a data-driven, evidence informed issue brief entitled "Primary Care in Texas: A call to action for an urgent consensus-based approach on primary care and health system transformation in Texas.” The issue brief was developed by Sue S. Bornstein, MD, FACP, Executive Director of Texas Medical Home Initiative and Ankit Sanghavi, BDS, MPH, Executive Director of Texas Health Institute.
“Despite the tremendous challenges imposed by the pandemic, we have an opportunity to chart a new path for primary care in Texas” explained Ankit Sanghavi, BDS, MPH, Executive Director, Texas Health Institute. A strong, well-resourced, and resilient primary care foundation is essential to an effective and efficient health system and is critical to ensuring the health of all individuals and communities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed a number of long-standing issues facing primary care in Texas including an increasing chronic disease burden, growing uninsured and underinsured populations, growing health disparities, chronic and acute practitioner shortages, and payment models that do not support longitudinal and comprehensive primary care.
About Texas Primary Care Consortium-- The Texas Primary Care Consortium is a statewide collaborative initiative with a mission to advance accessible, continuous, and coordinated person-centered care for all Texans. We serve as the honest broker that brings together diverse stakeholders to discuss, identify, and address the multi-faceted challenges presented by our current healthcare system. Through multi-sector collaboration, we are able to identify research gaps, build capacity for pursing shared solutions, and inform policy efforts to improve the health of all Texans. The consortium is jointly led by Texas Health Institute and the Texas Medical Home Initiative.
Texas Health Institute (THI) is the non-profit, non-partisan public health institute in Texas. Since 1964, THI has served as a trusted, leading voice on public health and healthcare issues in Texas and the nation. Their expertise, strategies, and nimble approach makes them an integral and essential partner in driving systems change efforts. THI works across and within sectors to lead collaborative efforts and facilitate connections to foster systems that provide the opportunity for everyone to lead a healthy life.
Texas Medical Home Initiative (TMHI) is a non-profit, practitioner-led organization with a vision to see all Texans have access to a medical home. The mission is to develop, implement, evaluate, and promote the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of primary care delivery in Texas.
For more information, contact:
Ankit Sanghavi, BDS, MPH
asanghavi@texashealthinstitute.org
www.txprimarycareconsortium.org
For Immediate Release
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Austin— 7/2/2020 --Texas Health Institute (THI) is proud to announce joint support from The Episcopal Health Foundation, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, and St. David’s Foundation to further our shared vision of increased cross-sector alignment and systems change in the health ecosystem to advance the health of all.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed systemic racial and health disparities. These disparities, along with the lack of forward-looking, coordinated approach, reflect the inherently complex and fragile nature of the health ecosystem. These challenges elevate the need for a nimble, trusted, and capacity-based organization to advance strategic, evidence-based policy, pursue systems transformation, and facilitate cross-sectoral programmatic initiatives across Texas. An organization of this nature leverages the key, infrastructural component of capacity building which enables them to develop skills to be more effective at achieving their mission and creating lasting change. Building and leveraging a strong, capacity-based public health institute is an important step in our shared pursuit of a forward-looking yet robust and flexible health ecosystem.
Through this effort, THI commits to build and strengthen our capacity to advance data-driven, evidence informed, smart public policy; facilitate system transformation efforts, and strengthen cross-sectoral efforts towards advancing the health of all. “This is only the start of many things to come,” said THI Chief Executive Officer, Ankit Sanghavi. “We are all in this together! To that end, we plan to further strengthen our academic collaborations to leverage university subject matter expertise across relevant issue areas. We also seek to foster and leverage our relationships with various governmental agencies, state, and community partners to advance innovative, community-driven, public-private partnership efforts that position Texas at the forefront of health system transformation.”
“All individuals, regardless of demographics or socioeconomic status, deserve to live as healthfully as possible,” said Denise Herrera, PhD, MCHES, Senior Capacity Building Officer, St. David’s Foundation. “Working alongside THI, with a strong commitment to health equity, will enable us to apply an interdisciplinary approach to solving some of our community’s most pressing health challenges – locally and nationally.”
Aliya Hussaini MD, MSc, Portfolio Director, Health, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation shared, “Strong public health institutes create healthier communities. THI’s effort to create a stronger, expanded, more aligned health system will encourage better health and prevent disease among the residents of Texas.”
THI is committed to our mission of advancing the health of all. The support from and collaboration with our foundation partners will help us to drive systems change and achieve measurable impact. We are excited to announce this effort as, hopefully, the first page of a new and exciting chapter for public health in Texas!
About Texas Health Institute-- We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health institute. Since 1964, we have served as a trusted, leading voice on public health and healthcare issues in Texas and the nation. Our expertise, strategies, and nimble approach makes us an integral and essential partner in driving systems change efforts. We work across and within sectors to lead collaborative efforts and facilitate connections to foster systems that provide the opportunity for everyone to lead a healthy life. As the public health institute in Texas we are also a member of the National Network of Public Health Institutes which is a social, financial and information network, connecting more than 8,000 subject-matter experts with organizational partners across the nation.
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For more information, contact:
Meghan Cocking, MSSW
mcocking@texashealthinstitute.org
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed systemic racial and health disparities. These disparities, along with the lack of forward-looking, coordinated approach, reflect the inherently complex and fragile nature of the health ecosystem. These challenges elevate the need for a nimble, trusted, and capacity-based organization to advance strategic, evidence-based policy, pursue systems transformation, and facilitate cross-sectoral programmatic initiatives across Texas. An organization of this nature leverages the key, infrastructural component of capacity building which enables them to develop skills to be more effective at achieving their mission and creating lasting change. Building and leveraging a strong, capacity-based public health institute is an important step in our shared pursuit of a forward-looking yet robust and flexible health ecosystem.
Through this effort, THI commits to build and strengthen our capacity to advance data-driven, evidence informed, smart public policy; facilitate system transformation efforts, and strengthen cross-sectoral efforts towards advancing the health of all. “This is only the start of many things to come,” said THI Chief Executive Officer, Ankit Sanghavi. “We are all in this together! To that end, we plan to further strengthen our academic collaborations to leverage university subject matter expertise across relevant issue areas. We also seek to foster and leverage our relationships with various governmental agencies, state, and community partners to advance innovative, community-driven, public-private partnership efforts that position Texas at the forefront of health system transformation.”
“All individuals, regardless of demographics or socioeconomic status, deserve to live as healthfully as possible,” said Denise Herrera, PhD, MCHES, Senior Capacity Building Officer, St. David’s Foundation. “Working alongside THI, with a strong commitment to health equity, will enable us to apply an interdisciplinary approach to solving some of our community’s most pressing health challenges – locally and nationally.”
Aliya Hussaini MD, MSc, Portfolio Director, Health, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation shared, “Strong public health institutes create healthier communities. THI’s effort to create a stronger, expanded, more aligned health system will encourage better health and prevent disease among the residents of Texas.”
THI is committed to our mission of advancing the health of all. The support from and collaboration with our foundation partners will help us to drive systems change and achieve measurable impact. We are excited to announce this effort as, hopefully, the first page of a new and exciting chapter for public health in Texas!
About Texas Health Institute-- We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health institute. Since 1964, we have served as a trusted, leading voice on public health and healthcare issues in Texas and the nation. Our expertise, strategies, and nimble approach makes us an integral and essential partner in driving systems change efforts. We work across and within sectors to lead collaborative efforts and facilitate connections to foster systems that provide the opportunity for everyone to lead a healthy life. As the public health institute in Texas we are also a member of the National Network of Public Health Institutes which is a social, financial and information network, connecting more than 8,000 subject-matter experts with organizational partners across the nation.
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For more information, contact:
Meghan Cocking, MSSW
mcocking@texashealthinstitute.org
Texas Health Institute Statement on Systemic RacismJune 5, 2020
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We are deeply troubled by the brutal death of George Floyd. His death is yet another example of the stolen life and dignity of black men, women, and children at the hands of systemic racism. Texas Health Institute (THI) stands in solidarity with our Black communities and millions of others in calling for an end to pervasive and entrenched systemic racism and discrimination. We affirm our commitment to the values of compassion, inclusivity, health equity, and social justice as the principles guiding our work to advance the health of all.
The events of the past week, coupled with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, have shined a tragic light on the deep racial inequities facing communities of color in every facet of their daily lives, harming their livelihoods, health, and well-being. These inequities have been fueled by the belief and practice of racial superiority against communities of color for centuries.
We are committed to listening, learning, recognizing, and redressing this long history of injustice. As we strive to make a difference in our communities, we ask you to join us in the path forward in dismantling deep-rooted structures of racism to create fair and just opportunities for all to live, thrive, and be healthy.
The events of the past week, coupled with the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, have shined a tragic light on the deep racial inequities facing communities of color in every facet of their daily lives, harming their livelihoods, health, and well-being. These inequities have been fueled by the belief and practice of racial superiority against communities of color for centuries.
We are committed to listening, learning, recognizing, and redressing this long history of injustice. As we strive to make a difference in our communities, we ask you to join us in the path forward in dismantling deep-rooted structures of racism to create fair and just opportunities for all to live, thrive, and be healthy.
For Immediate Release
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Austin— 5/20/2020 --Texas Health Institute (THI) is one of seven national finalists to receive a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to test its Theory of Change on aligning public health, health care, and social services to improve health and well-being in communities. THI will conduct a first-of-its-kind realist evaluation of up to two dozen cross-sector initiatives for health equity across Texas. This will enable a testing of RWJF’s theory in diverse population, geographic, and political contexts, while providing a pioneering study of Texas’ landscape of cross-sector efforts.
“This grant provides an unprecedented opportunity to advance our understanding of systems-alignment for health in Texas,” said THI chief executive offer Ankit Sanghavi, who will be the project’s co-principal investigator. “At the same time, this study will provide important guidance on effective strategies for bridging silos and coordinating systems change to make health a reality for all in Texas and nationally.”
RWJF’s Theory of Change posits that to achieve successful alignment for sustainably improving health, health care, public health and social service systems must have a shared vision, data and measurement systems, financing, and governance. Texas Health Institute’s study will evaluate to what extent RWJF’s core components of cross-sector alignment are reflected in practice and how they vary by context, how health equity is integrated, how internal and external factors enable or inhibit systems alignment, and how progress and success are measured and realized.
“For years the American Heart Association has been working in collaboration with THI and others to advance health equity for all Texans. This grant provides us the capacity to continue to leverage our assets in science, healthcare and collaboration and build an evidence-based understanding of the essential building blocks of systems alignment,” said senior vice president of health for the SouthWest region of the American Heart Association Debbie Hornor. “Together we can influence successful, sustainable cross-sector alignment to advance health equity for all Texans.”
Guided by a Statewide Steering Committee of multi-sector experts, leaders, and community stakeholders, Texas Health Institute will coalesce findings from their evaluation of Texas’ leading cross-sector initiatives to produce actionable guidance, tools and resources on effective strategies, best practices and lessons learned.
“We hope that learnings from this evaluation will fill an important gap in knowledge and provide concrete guidance to those on the systems-alignment journey on what works and how to measurably move the needle on health and health equity,” said Nadia Siddiqui, THI director of health equity programs, who will be the project’s principal investigator. 2
About Texas Health Institute— We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health institute. Since 1964, we have served as a trusted, leading voice on public health and healthcare issues in Texas and the nation. Our expertise, strategies, and nimble approach makes us an integral and essential partner in driving systems change efforts. We work across and within sectors to lead collaborative efforts and facilitate connections to foster systems that provide the opportunity for everyone to lead a healthy life. As the public health institute in Texas we are also a member of the National Network of Public Health Institutes which is a social, financial and information network, connecting more than 8,000 subject-matter experts with organizational partners across the nation.
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For more information, contact:
Nadia Siddiqui, MPH
nsiddiqui@texashealthinstitute.org
“This grant provides an unprecedented opportunity to advance our understanding of systems-alignment for health in Texas,” said THI chief executive offer Ankit Sanghavi, who will be the project’s co-principal investigator. “At the same time, this study will provide important guidance on effective strategies for bridging silos and coordinating systems change to make health a reality for all in Texas and nationally.”
RWJF’s Theory of Change posits that to achieve successful alignment for sustainably improving health, health care, public health and social service systems must have a shared vision, data and measurement systems, financing, and governance. Texas Health Institute’s study will evaluate to what extent RWJF’s core components of cross-sector alignment are reflected in practice and how they vary by context, how health equity is integrated, how internal and external factors enable or inhibit systems alignment, and how progress and success are measured and realized.
“For years the American Heart Association has been working in collaboration with THI and others to advance health equity for all Texans. This grant provides us the capacity to continue to leverage our assets in science, healthcare and collaboration and build an evidence-based understanding of the essential building blocks of systems alignment,” said senior vice president of health for the SouthWest region of the American Heart Association Debbie Hornor. “Together we can influence successful, sustainable cross-sector alignment to advance health equity for all Texans.”
Guided by a Statewide Steering Committee of multi-sector experts, leaders, and community stakeholders, Texas Health Institute will coalesce findings from their evaluation of Texas’ leading cross-sector initiatives to produce actionable guidance, tools and resources on effective strategies, best practices and lessons learned.
“We hope that learnings from this evaluation will fill an important gap in knowledge and provide concrete guidance to those on the systems-alignment journey on what works and how to measurably move the needle on health and health equity,” said Nadia Siddiqui, THI director of health equity programs, who will be the project’s principal investigator. 2
About Texas Health Institute— We are a nonprofit, nonpartisan public health institute. Since 1964, we have served as a trusted, leading voice on public health and healthcare issues in Texas and the nation. Our expertise, strategies, and nimble approach makes us an integral and essential partner in driving systems change efforts. We work across and within sectors to lead collaborative efforts and facilitate connections to foster systems that provide the opportunity for everyone to lead a healthy life. As the public health institute in Texas we are also a member of the National Network of Public Health Institutes which is a social, financial and information network, connecting more than 8,000 subject-matter experts with organizational partners across the nation.
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For more information, contact:
Nadia Siddiqui, MPH
nsiddiqui@texashealthinstitute.org