Care Vans will be deployed to provide immunizations for back-to-school readiness, National Immunization Awareness Month Efforts to bridge immunization gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and decreased preventative health visits is top of mind this year as the The Caring Foundation of Texas ramps up free vaccination opportunities across Texas to facilitate back-to-school readiness ...
We 💙 our nurses! Meet Jessica Murad, lead Care Van nurse for the Houston area. Q: Why did you decide to become a nurse, and what do you like most about your work with the Caring Foundation of Texas? A: When I was 17 my grandmother was put into Hospice care, I saw ...
The Permian Basin is home to 2 million Texans and covers 75,000 square miles. The magnitude of this rural area makes health care delivery complicated. That’s why the Caring Foundation of Texas is launching a new Care Van to deliver immunizations to children at no cost to their families.
We are excited to announce a new partnership with Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and the Permian Strategic Partnership that will bring expanded access to quality, affordable health care to the Permian Basin and surrounding rural communities. This marks the launch of TTUHSC’s ‘Medicine on the Move’ initiative, which features two newly outfitted mobile ...
Many of us will feel excited to send our kids off to school this fall. But before you pack their lunch for that first day of school, make sure your child is up to date on his/her immunizations. At a recent briefing, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, urged ...
As COVID-19 vaccines became available earlier this year, Karyn Beauchamp started working on a way to get them to the employees of Irving Independent School District. Beauchamp, the district’s clinic and health services director, already partners with the Caring Foundation of Texas to provide students with vaccines they need for enrollment. Why not work together ...
The CDC and FDA are recommending a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine out of an "abundance of caution" while an investigation is conducted into six reported cases of a rare and severe type of blood clot. For the most accurate, up-to-date information refer to the following sources: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0413-JJ-vaccine.html https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news/releases/2021/20210413.aspx
As El Paso County started becoming one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 hotspots last fall, community focus groups revealed how social and economic differences made the pandemic harder on populations of color. Basic information about hand washing, mask-wearing and social distancing didn’t go far enough to address complex circumstances facing the county’s nearly 700,000 ...
The Caring Foundation of Texas began partnering with Amistad Health Center back in September. The initial partnership focused on providing adult preventive health care screenings in the rural parts of Corpus Christi in areas called a colonias. During this pandemic, this partnership has grown and now the Coastal Bend Care Van program is also providing ...
