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Sarai Vences

How A Medical Assistant Program is Helping One Travis County Resident Form a Better Life

May 19, 2025

Sarai Vences, 19, graduated from the Central Health and Austin Community College MA apprenticeship program in 2024 and hasn’t looked back since. AUSTIN, Texas– Nine months into her job as […]

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Five-Year HIV Screening Policy Campaign Proved to Save Lives

April 30, 2025

HIV screening rates for MAP and MAP Basic patients in Travis County were found at rates 64% higher than the state average and 84% greater than the national average. AUSTIN, […]

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Robert Lilly

Central Health’s Partnership with the Black Men’s Health Clinic Has Helped Transform This Patient’s Life

February 19, 2025

AUSTIN — Robert Lilly had 20 years to think about his regrets while incarcerated, a life, perhaps, of forks in the road and poorly timed decisions. Lesser men would have […]

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From Waitlists to Wellness: How Central Health is Changing Lives with New Specialty Care Services

August 1, 2024

If you’ve been following Central Health news, you know that Travis County’s hospital district has opened 14 different specialty care and diagnostic lines of service. Five more are expected to […]

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Outdoor Activities Update

May 11, 2023

We’re happy to let you know that designs for outdoor community spaces at the future Hornsby Bend Health & Wellness Center have been finalized and approved. Based on what we […]

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Bad to the Bone! Are you at risk for Vitamin D and Calcium Deficiency?

April 17, 2023

Vitamin D deficiency is one of the most common deficiencies worldwide and in the United States.  Approximately 1 billion people worldwide are Vitamin D deficient, while about 50% of the […]

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National Kidney Month

March 29, 2023

March is National Kidney Month. Our kidneys are vital to our health to excrete wastes from the blood in the urine. Each kidney gets rid of about 1 to 1.5 […]

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Three Habits to Reduce Your Risk of Colorectal Cancer

March 27, 2023

March is National Colorectal Month and its time to get comfortable talking about the number 1 problem associated with number 2! Let’s face it-No one likes to talk about excretion […]

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Notice: The Travis County Healthcare District d/b/a Central Health adopted a tax rate that will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year’s tax rate. The tax rate will effectively be raised by 6.5 percent and will raise taxes for maintenance and operations on a $100,000 home by approximately $6.32 (six dollars and thirty-two cents).

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