leisure time -WSS

leisure time

author：entertainment 2025-09-27 22:48:21 - browse：8

Aerial photograph of Austin, Texas — Austin, Texas has become the grounds for dueling powerful interests fighting over health care services for poor patients. Brandon Bell/Getty Images

AUSTIN, Texas — The partnership between one of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems and a local government agency focused on caring for poor patients was supposed to be mutually beneficial for everyone involved. But it didn’t quite turn out that way.

The alliance in theory meant that Travis County, home to the growing metro area of Austin, could provide more care to low-income patients cheaper than other big cities in the state. And Ascension, a not-for-profit behemoth, would get to own a brand-new teaching hospital and work with an elite new medical school at the University of Texas at Austin.

But two decades after the agency and Ascension first came together in the name of providing care for poor patients, their relationship has almost completely unraveled.

Get unlimited access to award-winning journalism and exclusive events.

Subscribe Log In

Previous article： Anesthesiologist group: stop taking Ozempic before surgery
Next article： Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago to focus on inflammation

focus

WSS

VC firm General Catalyst wants to buy a health system

Bill would stop addiction treatment from triggering child abuse inquiry

Manchin plays down potential 3rd

AI can decode, harness the power of the humane immune system

Johnson & Johnson sues to stop Medicare negotiation

Twill hunts for pharma partner to market its depression app

hotspot

leisure time

entertainment

Hollywood unions extend contract negotiations for actors

Liquid biopsy for lung cancer is launched by Delfi

At least 13 dead in Texas as scorching temps continue

The future of health care in the House

Tori Bowie and the unacceptable rates of Black maternal death

A Q&A with the global head of Boehringer Ingelheim's innovation unit

DIEP, the 'gold standard' of breast reconstruction, is under threat

Stroke deaths set to near 10 million globally by 2050

Cancer drug shortages should be causing more outrage

FDA panel signals lack of confidence in Amgen cancer drug data

explore

Liquid biopsy for lung cancer is launched by Delfi

Ford plant in Missouri shuts down over 'possible threat,' sheriff's office says

Physician executives need more than on

Manchin plays down potential 3rd

Britain’s MI6 chief says his spies are using AI to disrupt flow of weapons to Russia

Analysis of telehealth claims data suggest service duplication

focus

focus

focus

leisure time