When you are in some of your most vulnerable moments, you want to make sure you are in good hands. Texas Health Resources is an organization that not only puts patients first but puts social responsibility at the top of their list. Texas Health has recently released their 2021 performance summary that highlights their key accomplishments of 2021. A lot of this report speaks on the community service and social responsibilities they performed throughout the past year.
Texas Health is Committed to the Community
1. Aided our most vulnerable and underserved: Texas Health provided $927 million in charity care and community benefit and awarded $5.2 million in Community Impact grants to provide life-enriching resources, pandemic relief and programming to reduce health disparities.
2. Deployed a comprehensive community vaccine strategy: Texas Health administered more than 314,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccinations to reduce the threat of severe illness or death. They operated six community vaccination clinics and partnered with 74 other organizations to deliver vaccinations at 210 additional pop-up clinics.
3. Reinforced their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion: Texas Health launched a new leadership development program to give up-and-coming leaders the skills they need to champion diversity, equity and inclusion within Texas Health and in the communities they serve.
4. Launched the Texas Health University Consortium to help eliminate health disparities: Texas Health partnered with five North Texas universities to bring together public health experts, academic leaders and college students to leverage our collective knowledge and resources to close health equity and literacy gaps.
5. Advocated for funding and legislation that helps them fulfill their mission: Texas Health received state and federal funding to care for low-income and underserved individuals and educate up-and-coming physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers. They also successfully advocated to expand behavioral health and women’s health services in Texas.
Texas Health Optimized their Environment of Care in 2021
1.Increased engagement and contracts with diverse suppliers: Texas Health expanded their engagement with minority- and women-owned businesses.
2. Expanded access to critical medications: Global supply chain challenges compounded by the pandemic have made it more difficult to maintain an inventory of critical pharmaceuticals. To help relieve this burden, Texas Health joined 10 other national health systems to purchase a minority stake in Exela Pharma Sciences, allowing them to receive an uninterrupted supply of specialized medicines at a lower cost.
3. Recognized for leadership in conservation and sustainability: Texas Health was again named the 2021 Texan By Nature 20 for developing innovative, sustainable methods and processes. They recycled more than 2 million pounds of materials and kept 3,000 cubic yards of items out of landfills. Recycling also avoided the consumption of 7.1 million gallons of water, 4.1 million kilowatts of energy, 388,897 gallons of oil and saved 17,400 trees.
4. Leveraged data and analytics to unveil improvement opportunities: Texas Health joined a U.S. healthcare collaborative that combines and assesses de-identified consumer data to analyze and address shared healthcare challenges. They also created 20 new analytical dashboards that monitor operational and clinical performance so they can quickly make refinements, if needed.
Texas Health Cares
1. Recognized caregivers’ tireless contributions: Texas Health invested $230 million in wage increases, compassionate care relief, bonuses, incentives and shift differentials to retain employees and honor their difficult work.
2. Championed change: Texas Health has employed over 550 employees to help them improve their culture awareness and accelerate diversity, equity and inclusion within all systems.
3. Expanded clinical pipeline: Texas Health launched additional graduate medical education programs to increase the number of physicians working in North Texas. They also designed a year-long program to enhance the skills of newly graduated nurses and provided tuition-free training to patient care technicians.
4. Delivered continual care despite limited resources: Texas Health hired more than 6,000 new people and temporary relief staff to help respond to the COVID-19 surges and workforce shortages. They nearly doubled their employee referral incentives to help fill critical roles.
5. Honored for their exceptional culture: Texas Health was named No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s list of Best Workplaces in Health Care and Biopharma™ and No. 7 on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For®. They also received national recognition for their health and wellness programs.
If you would like to take a look at Texas Health’s entire social purpose report, click here.
We are so glad to have Texas Health part of our Chamber family. They exemplify together, we succeed and we look forward to seeing how they continue to grow their community outreach as well as their organizations inclusive culture.
Thank you to Texas Health Resources for sending this report to us.
