Travis County's public hospital district funds medical care for low-income residents.
Patrick Lee, Central Health’s CEO, recently completed his first 100 days at the helm of the organization.
Voters approved Central Health in 2004. In the beginning, it was primarily tasked with funding care at a hospital that would serve low-income residents. Back then, that was University Medical Center Brackenridge. Now, it’s Dell Seton Medical Center. Central Health contracts with Ascension Texas to offer care for low-income individuals at that facility. That sets Central Health apart from the other five largest public hospital districts in Texas, all of which operate a hospital themselves.
“Central Health is empowered with the right to tax to provide the resources necessary to build this system and deliver the care and achieve the results of equitable health for all in Travis County,” Lee said in a May interview. That’s why one focus of the health equity plan is medical respite — programs where homeless individuals can recuperate after a stay at the hospital, which hopefully lessens the odds that they’ll need to be re-hospitalized. Other priorities include building up strategic specialty care services such as, or MAP, is for folks who can’t afford traditional insurance and don’t qualify for Medicaid or Medicare. If your household makes 200% of the federal poverty level or less, you might qualify for MAP.
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