Austin CBS News Affiliate Covers Nurse Workforce Challenges and Proposed Legislative Solutions
Recent reporting from CBS Austin takes a deep dive into Texas’ nursing shortage and THOT-supported legislation to help address it. Senate Bill 2059, by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, was reported favorably to the Senate Committee on Education [...]
Essential Nurse Workforce Funding Legislation Has Senate Subcommittee Hearing
THOT-supported SB 2059 adds grant funding for nursing education and training programs. This critical funding will augment the state’s health care workforce strategy to train and retain more nurses through clinical training and innovation opportunities. [...]
Parkland Health Hits the Road to Increase Access to Vaccines
Parkland Health debuts a new mobile immunization clinic to increase vaccination rates among children in Dallas County. The mobile clinic’s providers will immunize patients in Dallas County schools and other rotating sites four to six [...]
Solving the Nurse Workforce Shortage in Midland
An op-ed published in the March 29 Midland Reporter-Telegram highlighted two priority bills filed during the current Texas legislative session that could have a significant impact on the nursing shortage. The op-ed by Midland Memorial [...]
Celebrating Doctors’ Day 2023
March 30 is Doctors’ Day, a day to celebrate and appreciate all our incredible physicians. Doctors’ Day is an opportunity to acknowledge and thank our physicians who care for our communities in our hospitals and clinics [...]
THOT Supported Hospital at Home Legislation Advances
Essential legislation to maintain innovative hospital at home programs in Texas is advancing through the Texas Legislature. House Bill 1890, by Rep. Jacey Jetton, was reported favorably the House Public Health Committee on March 27. [...]
UTMB Rolls Out Moxi Robots to Support Nurses
Texas’ teaching hospitals are investing in multiple, in-depth strategies to support and retain their experienced nurses – a key element in solving Texas’ nurse workforce challenge. These strategies range from shared governance and telenursing to changing [...]
The Nursing Shortage is a Code Red for the Legislature
Teaching Hospitals of Texas president and CEO Maureen Milligan outlined the main challenges hospitals face as they work to solve the critical nursing shortage in Texas and what steps Texas lawmakers can take to help in [...]
New JAMA Study Documents Teaching Hospitals’ Impact on Patient Outcomes
Communities with academic medical centers (AMCs), or teaching hospitals, have better outcomes for patients at all hospitals, according to an analysis of more than 22 million hospitalizations of Medicare beneficiaries published in the Feb. 1 JAMA [...]
THOT, Harris Health Discuss Texas’ Nurse Workforce Shortage and Strategies to Address It
Maureen Milligan, PhD, president and CEO of Teaching Hospitals of Texas, and Jackie Brock, DNP, RN, chief nursing executive and executive vice president at Harris Health System in Houston, will discuss the nursing care shortage in [...]