Safety-net clinics across Texas are facing potentially devastating financial struggles during COVID-19, but a new emergency loan program developed by Episcopal Health Foundation and fiscally sponsored by Austin Community Foundation is helping clinics remain open to serve more Texans at risk of going without medical care during the pandemic. The $5 million Texas Clinic Emergency

A majority of people who live in Harris County say they’ve suffered financial troubles during COVID-19 and almost half say they or someone in their household has lost a job, lost a business, or had their wages or hours reduced. Those are just some of the findings from Episcopal Health Foundation’s survey of the impacts of COVID-19 in Harris County that was co-sponsored by Arnold Ventures.

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El Centro de Corazón clinic in Houston In a second round of funding related to COVID-19, Episcopal Health Foundation has awarded $1.3 million in grants to 32 nonprofit clinics and other organizations that are serving at-risk communities in Texas on the front lines of the pandemic. Along with the first round of funding announced in

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Grants will help 23 clinics and organizations working on the front lines serving at-risk communities through medical care, benefit assistance, and other health services