Legacy’s CEO Recognized as Outstanding Houston Business Leader in Health Care
Category: Advocacy, Public Affairs
This year Katy Caldwell, Legacy’s CEO, was named among a select few outstanding leaders in health care.
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Big News: CDC Head Evolves on Condoms and Needle Exchange Policy
Category: Advocacy, HIV/STD Screening & Treatment, Public Affairs, Public Health
By James Lee, Government Relations Manager Earlier this week, Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control, came out in favor of condoms and needle exchange policy as a means to combat HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Redfield previously held a longstanding view of abstinence as a means of prevention. “I…
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Legacy Community Health Warns of Mental Health Impact of Family Separation on Children
Category: Advocacy, Behavioral Health Services, Public Affairs
Legacy Community Health today highlighted the potential behavioral health impacts of separating children from their asylum-seeking parents. Almost 2,000 children have been separated from their parents as of May, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
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Legacy Kicks-off Health Care Advocacy Trainings: Grassroots Guide to Health Care
Category: Advocacy, Public Affairs
On Monday, Feb. 12, Legacy Community Health’s public affairs practice will launch Grassroots Guide to Health Care, a health-care advocacy 101 training for community advocates. The training will be the first in a series of events, held across the region that will provide community advocates with the tools they need to make an impact in health care and policy.
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HIV Advocacy Week and World AIDS Day
Category: Adult Primary Care, Advocacy, LGBT, Public Health
For the first time, on the week of Nov. 27, END HIV Houston (END) will be leading a local advocacy week to bring more urgency to ending the HIV epidemic in Houston.
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Legacy CEO Testimony on Economic Competitiveness
Category: Advocacy, Public Affairs
Witness Testimony before the House Select Committee on Economic Competitiveness November 15, 2017 Katy Caldwell, CEO, Legacy Community Health Chairman Cook, and members of the House Select Committee on Economic Competitiveness, my name is Katy Caldwell and I’m CEO of Legacy Community Health in Houston. We are one of the state’s largest federally qualified health…
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New Survey Reveals How Texans Feel About Health Care
Category: Adult Primary Care, Advocacy, Behavioral Health Services, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Public Affairs, Public Health
This week, Texas Medical Center released results of their “Nation’s Pulse” health care survey, which showed most consumers feel health insurance is important yet too expensive.
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People need to take the Graham-Cassidy bill seriously
Category: Advocacy, Public Affairs
The Graham-Cassidy bill decimates Medicaid, which millions of pregnant women, children, elderly, and the disabled rely on for their health needs.
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Texans Don’t Want to Repeal Obamacare without a Replacement
Category: Adult Primary Care, Advocacy, Behavioral Health Services, Dental Care, Development, Family Medicine, Gender Health, HIV/STD Screening & Treatment, LGBT, OB/GYN & Maternity, Pediatrics, Public Affairs, Public Health, Vaccination & Immunization, Vision Services
As we wrote in a recent note to our patients, Legacy is aware of the understandable confusion and anxiety around the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. What all Houstonians should know is that health insurance plans have not yet changed, and those who have insurance will continue to receive the benefits of their individual plan.
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Una nota a todos los pacientes de Legacy sobre Obamacare
Category: Adult Primary Care, Advocacy, Behavioral Health Services, Dental Care, Family Medicine, Gender Health, HIV/STD Screening & Treatment, LGBT, OB/GYN & Maternity, Pediatrics, Vaccination & Immunization, Vision Services
Legacy continuará proporcionando el cuidado de la salud a todos los que lo necesitan, independientemente de su capacidad de pago.
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