Healthcare Regulation and Reform

The number of dialysis centers in the islands is increasing to meet the need as more patients suffer from kidney failure.

Texas has a law that requires the screening of school children for diabetes. But due to COVID-19, in recent years, those screenings aren't always happening.

In a Latino community near Chicago, too many victims of COVID are identified as white, Black or other.

The project's investigative journalism has made an impact. Bexar County, for example, is using maps created for the series to change its approach.

In the southern part of the city, options for hospitals, medical specialists and surgical centers are limited. Those in the industry say there’s little motivation to change that.

Building on Express-News Reporter Laura Garcia's in-depth series on health care disparities in San Antonio, she will engage a panel of experts in a frank discussion about such inequities on the South Side, as well as solutions.

This project is supported by a grant from USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism 2022 California Impact Fund.

Texas Public Radio’s Yvette Benavides and David Martin Davies went to San Antonio’s Woodlawn Lake Park and talked to people about how diabetes is impacting their lives.

This project is supported by a grant from USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism 2022 California Impact Fund.

Bexar County will hire a county public health director and other core staff as part of an initiative to revamp health care in fast-growing outlying areas of the community, filling gaps in service that he said were revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic.