Texas
Lead Contacts
(Contactos Principales)
Texas Office of Border Health
(Oficina de Salud Fronteriza de Texas)
Promotes and protects the health of border residents by reducing community and environmental health hazards along the Texas-Mexico border, in collaboration with communities and U.S. and Mexican local, state, and federal entities.
Promueve y protege la salud de la población fronteriza abatiendo riesgos a la salud en comunidades y el medio ambiente a lo largo de la frontera México-Texas, en colaboración con comunidades e instancias locales, estatales y federales en México y EE.UU.
Ronald J. Dutton, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Border Health
Texas Department of State Health Services
PO Box 149347
Austin, TX 78714-9347
(512) 458-7675 / Fax (512) 458-7262
Rj.dutton@dshs.state.tx.us
http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/borderhealth/default.shtm
U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission Office
(Oficina de la Comisión de Salud Fronteriza México-EE.UU.)
Provides international leadership to optimize health and quality of life along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Brinda liderazgo a nivel internacional a fin de optimizar la salud y calidad de vida a lo largo de la frontera México-EE.UU.
Kassie Rogers, R.S., M.S.
Coordinator, Texas Outreach Office
U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission
Office of Border Health
Texas Department of State Health Services
1021 Garner Field Road
Uvalde, TX 78801
(830) 278-7173 Ext. 226 / Fax (830) 278-7170
kassie.rogers@dshs.state.tx.us
http://www.borderhealth.org/
Additional Texas Contacts
(Contactos Adicionales Texas)
State Data
(Datos de los Estados)
Texas
Success Stories
(Historias de éxito)
- Call For Health
Call For Health is a national, bilingual, toll-free health
information and referral resource created for the nation's four million migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their dependents.
- EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
- Lower Rio Grande Promotora Collaboration Project
This project provides individual health educators who work at a grassroots level to provide basic health education and referrals to primary health care.
- Prenatal Care Project: Cuidado Prenatal
A county hospital, a state department of health, and a Fortune 500 corporation have joined forces through this outreach project to provide much needed prenatal care to a growing immigrant population in central Texas.
- Rural Health Outreach Demonstration Program (Terlingua, TX)
An isolated Texas community near the Mexican border has made widespread improvements in its rural health clinic, emergency medical systems, and fire department.
- Trans-Pecos Rural Health Initiative
This initiative is a four organization, two-site collaborative who designed a program to address the health needs of local residents, travelers, and adolescents by providing disease prevention and health promotion training to health professionals and school personnel, offering ambulatory and mental health care for underserved populations and local residents, enhancing the quality of emergency medical services, and increasing access to health care through outreach.
Funding Programs
(Financiamiento)
Texas Funding
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