Oral Health Partner Spotlight: Waco Family Medicine February is National Children’s Dental Health Month! That makes it the perfect time to highlight our partnership with the Waco Family Medicine school program serving McLennan, Hill, Falls, Bells and Limestone counties. Proper oral hygiene is essential to overall health and wellness and a critical component to a ...
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 ...
Many uninsured families can’t afford the cost of vaccinations that are required at Texas schools. That’s why the Caring Foundation of TexasSM sends its Care Vans® into low-income communities, providing immunizations at no cost to the recipient. You can be a part of the solution. Visit carevan.org/giving to donate to the cause. Every penny of ...
With the arrival of COVID-19, it became increasingly more difficult to find a safe way to vaccinate school children. Inspired by the challenge, the Caring Foundation of Texas’s Care Vans began partnering on outdoor drive-thru events. From the comfort of their own vehicle, parents can have their children safely vaccinated by qualified ...
Open to the uninsured and medically underinsured in the Houston and Dallas areas In collaboration with Sanitas, we will host a free “Drive-Thru Flu Shot Clinic” and an open enrollment seminar on Saturday, December 5. Houston, join us at the Sanitas Medical Center, 2610 N Mason Rd. (Sanitas) in Katy. Dallas, join us at the ...