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VISION
EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO QUALITY AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE

Healthcare


VISION

Everyone has access to quality affordable healthcare.

Healthcare Needs Assessment

2019 Comprehensive Community Needs Assessment
Poverty generates poor health and poor health generates poverty.
In every aspect of healthcare from being sick to getting care, from prevention to aftercare, people in poverty don’t fare as well as people in middle class or wealth.
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The top three needs in healthcare for all respondents were:
  1. Vision Care
  2. Dental Care
  3. Care for Hypertension

The top three needs in behavioral healthcare for all respondents were:
  1. Treatment for Anxiety
  2. Treatment for Depression
  3. Treatment for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
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The table below shows the Key Poverty Indicators and Top Needs only for those respondents who have no healthcare coverage.
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Carlton Allen
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Healthcare Council Chai
Program Manager  Colorectal Cancer Project. CPRIT Grant
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler

Resources

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  • Mental Health TX
  • NET Health
  • Tyler Family Circle of Care
  • Bethesda Clinic
  • Samaritan Counseling Center
  • Tyler Junior College Dental Hygiene Clinic
  • Center for Healthy Living
  • Tyler Care Clinic​

Latest Reports

2019 Smith County Behavioral Health Leadership Team - Behavioral Health Services Report
2017 County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
Report - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute 
Texas Rankings Data

​2017 County Health Rankings - Texas
2017 Smith County Health Rankings
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Knowledge Resources

  • Episcopal Health Foundation - Smith County Health Data
  • Episcopal Health Foundation - Cherokee County Health Data
  • Beyond Health Care: The Role of Social Determinants in Promoting Health and Health Equity 
  • Health Professional Shortage Areas
  • ​Oral Health and General Health
  • Affordable Care Act
  • ​Affordable Healthcare Act application assistance
  • County Health Rankings
  • ​​Healthcare Primer
  • ​Texas Behavioral Health Emergency
University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
If Northeast Texas were a state, among states it would rank 47th in chronic lower respiratory disease mortality, 49th in heart disease mortality, 51st in stroke mortality, and 45th in deaths from all causes.

North East Texas Health Status Report 2016

East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse - Regional Needs Assessment
The Regional Needs Assessment (RNA) is a document created by the Prevention Resource Center (PRC) in Region 4 along with Evaluators from PRCs across the State of Texas and supported by the East Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS). The PRC 4 serves 23 counties in Region 4.

ETCADA 2016 Regional Needs Assessment

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Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2014
Information below based on this report.
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THE BENEFITS OF COVERING MORE TEXANS
How many uninsured Texans would gain health care coverage if Texas accepts federal health care funds to expand Medicaid or adopts a Texas alternative that expands health care coverage?Economic benefits to Texas counties if Texas accepts federal health care funds to expand Medicaid or adopts a Texas alternative that expands health care coverage: Link to data
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