After years of failed negotiations over health care services to low-income residents and payments for those services, Central Health, the Travis County health care district, filed suit Tuesday against Ascension Texas, a nationwide chain of hospitals and health care facilities. Ascension Texas operates Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas as well as […]
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Posted inPublic Health
Seton offers homeless groups space to address trafficking, services
Nonprofits addressing homelessness in Austin will get some long-sought-after help in steering clients through the area’s network of services designed to get them off the streets and into stable housing. Seton Healthcare Family has announced a new partnership with the Ending Community Homelessness Coalition (ECHO) and the SAFE Alliance, offering some of the health care […]
Posted inDevelopment, Local Politics
Teaching hospital skybridge remains an issue
City Council members expressed concerns over the addition of a skybridge to plans for a new Seton Teaching Hospital on Red River Street. Council Members Laura Morrison and Chris Riley both wondered how the feature would fit in with broader plans for the area. Morrison cited a recommendation made by a working group of the […]
Posted inLocal Politics, Resources
Council votes to cut Seton’s fee waiver request by more than half
Those opposed to offering the future Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas a bundle of fee and requirement waivers can take heart after the Austin City Council cut the total value of the waivers from over $2.4 million to $902,000. The Council voted unanimously in favor of an ordinance waiving some fees […]