Contents tagged with senate

• Sen. Nelson given TAFP Patient Advocacy Award

  Tags: senate, nelson, denton, tarrant, legislature, advocacy, bartos, deuser, swegler

  Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:33:00 AM

  Sen. Nelson given TAFP Patient Advocacy Award

  posted 11.20.13

  State Senator Jane Nelson was named the recipient of the 2013 TAFP Patient Advocacy Award at the 64th Annual Session and Scientific … more

• Damage control: Mending Texas’ women’s health care safety net

  Tags: women's health, legislature, 82nd, 83rd, texas women's healthcare coalition, realini, department of state health services, family planning, medicaid, health and human services commission, public health, howard, davis, perry, nelson, senate, house of representatives

  Monday, April 29, 2013 11:00:00 AM

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  By Kate Alfano

  Severe budget cuts from the 82nd Texas Legislature left the women’s health care safety net in tatters, but supported by a strong fiscal and public health policy … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Senate passes bill to increase residency slots

  Tags: capitol update, capitol, legislature, senate, higher education, bill, nelson, fiesinger, graduate medical education, physician of the day, residency, medicaid, women's health, shortage, curran, budget, realini, ortiz, lawrence, frederick, swegler, bander, margo, freeman, sprute

  Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:42:00 AM

  Capitol Update: Senate passes bill to increase residency slots

  posted 04.24.13

  The Senate passed legislation last week proposed by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, that will strengthen the … more

• Senate Bill 143 unanimously approved

  Tags: capitol update, capitol, legislature, senate, higher education, bill, nelson, fiesinger, graduate medical education, physician of the day, residency, medicaid, women's health, shortage, duperval-brownlee, nuckols, eidson, stoltz, giannone, guerra, reardon, egerton, merian, hugman, hadley, palafox, berg, baumer

  Tuesday, April 2, 2013 2:15:00 PM

  Capitol Update: Senate committee approves bill to increase access to primary care

  posted 04.03.13

  The Senate Committee on Higher Education approved Senate Bill 143 Wednesday, April 3, which would … more

• CAPITOL UPDATE: Senate Finance considers higher education budget

  Tags: capitol, capitol update, legislature, legislative update, physician of the day, senate, texas higher education coordinating board, finance, graduate medical education, residency, bias, preceptorship, loan repayment, house of representatives, pope, egerton, peron, curran

  Wednesday, January 30, 2013 4:02:00 PM

  Capitol Update: Senate Finance considers higher education budget

  posted 01.31.13

  The Senate Finance Committee heard testimony on article III of the state budget, which contains all funding for … more

• TAFP members appointed to Texas Institute for Health Care Quality and Efficiency

  Tags: quality, efficiency, carter, nuckols, joe, texas family physician, members, senate, bill

  Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:20:00 PM

  TAFP members appointed to Texas Institute for Health Care Quality and Efficiency

  Texas Governor Rick Perry has appointed 13 members to the board of directors of the Texas Institute for … more

• Medical board launches online supervision and prescriptive delegation registration system

  Tags: prescriptive authority, texas medical board, online, system, senate, bill

  Tuesday, August 3, 2010 11:08:00 AM

  Medical board launches online supervision and prescriptive delegation registration system

  posted 08.03.10

  The Texas Medical Board has recently launched a new online system to allow physicians to … more