/tags/texas-health-and-human-services-commission Texas Health And Human Services Commission en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:44:25 GMT /education/2024-01-11/texas-school-districts-lose-300-million-in-federal-special-education-funding At a time when many Texas school districts are struggling to balance their budgets, districts learned they have millions more dollars to make up. Austin ISD will receive $5 million less than expected. Thu, 11 Jan 2024 21:44:25 GMT /education/2024-01-11/texas-school-districts-lose-300-million-in-federal-special-education-funding Camille Phillips /texas/2022-01-28/texas-is-short-thousands-of-workers-at-state-health-facilities The Texas Health and Human Services Commission is trying to fill about 3,000 open positions by offering signing bonuses for certain medical staff such as registered nurses. Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:00:47 GMT /texas/2022-01-28/texas-is-short-thousands-of-workers-at-state-health-facilities Becky Fogel, The Texas Newsroom /health/2021-01-06/texas-gives-medicaid-recipients-using-planned-parenthood-30-days-to-find-a-new-provider Planned Parenthood officials say patients will have a hard time finding new providers in a short window of time during a pandemic. Thu, 07 Jan 2021 00:24:14 GMT /health/2021-01-06/texas-gives-medicaid-recipients-using-planned-parenthood-30-days-to-find-a-new-provider Ashley Lopez /health/2020-12-18/planned-parenthood-asks-texas-officials-to-delay-kicking-it-out-of-medicaid-during-the-pandemic Officials with the chain of family-planning clinics say the removal could affect 8,000 people already facing barriers to health care. Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:01:05 GMT /health/2020-12-18/planned-parenthood-asks-texas-officials-to-delay-kicking-it-out-of-medicaid-during-the-pandemic Ashley Lopez /texas/2020-06-04/texas-top-health-official-spends-30-hours-a-week-at-second-job From Texas Standard:Texas' top state leader in the fight against the coronavirus receives no state salary and is allowed to keep his other� Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:22:50 GMT /texas/2020-06-04/texas-top-health-official-spends-30-hours-a-week-at-second-job Terri Langford /austin/2017-11-30/texas-health-regulators-overrun-by-several-hundred-rats-at-austin-headquarters On Oct. 17, Brenda Brantley, an employee at Texas' Health and Human Services Commission, was in her second-floor office at the agency’s Austin� Fri, 01 Dec 2017 00:13:04 GMT /austin/2017-11-30/texas-health-regulators-overrun-by-several-hundred-rats-at-austin-headquarters Edgar Walters | Texas Tribune