Tucked away in the back of Van Zandt Regional Hospital, a small East Texas hospital, is a quaint makeshift bedroom that is reminiscent of a nun’s quarters.
A desk lamp illuminates the extra-long twin-sized hospital bed with the white sheets neatly pulled tight over the mattress. Hats are strewn about the large wooden vanity in the room, and a Bible is placed beside the window, with pages fanning out from its daily use.
These are the temporary living quarters for the hospital’s Chief Executive Officer, Randy Lindauer. The unassuming, Indiana-native has worked his way across the country, resuscitating rural hospitals in Kansas, Florida, West Virginia and Indiana all of which are still up and running. Van Zandt Regional Hospital in Grand Saline, TX is his most recent project.
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Last week’s news that the Biden administration was rescinding the 1115 waiver extension the Trump administration had granted Texas was felt from California to Florida, and certainly throughout the Lone Star State.
Austin was buzzing with the implications for the state, a reality that only began to settle in on Monday as staff at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) were able to make sense of the 669-page transmission.
Here is an excerpt from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) announcement on Friday:
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(PRESIDIO, Texas) Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip.
He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative.
Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy.
The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase his risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But Figueroa lives in Presidio, Texas, a city of about 4,000 people on the U.S.-Mexico border where there’s no hospital, no full-time doctor and no pharmacy.
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(PRESIDIO, Texas) Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip.
He wasn’t going on vacation or to visit a relative.
Instead, he was planning to get a lifesaving shot to protect him from COVID-19 a shot that many Americans can now conveniently access at their neighborhood pharmacy.
The 54-year-old father of four has been eager to get vaccinated because he has high blood pressure, which could increase his risk of severe illness from the coronavirus. But Figueroa lives in Presidio, Texas, a city of about 4,000 people on the U.S.-Mexico border where there’s no hospital, no full-time doctor and no pharmacy.