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Doctors struggle to vaccinate rural communities in East Texas I ve had issues with even persuading my own patients to get the vaccine, Dr. Jose Tovar-Camargo of Palestine Regional Medical Center said.
Credit: TEGNA Published: 6:47 PM CDT July 23, 2021 Updated: 6:48 PM CDT July 23, 2021
TEXAS, USA On Friday, more than 5,000 cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in Texas. This high-case count follows after Thursday recorded than 6,000 confirmed cases. The last time we reached that many confirmed cases in a month was early March.
With the virus spreading, doctors are pushing for people to get the vaccine but in rural communities, it s a struggle. I ve had issues with even persuading my own patients to get the vaccine, despite giving them medical and scientific information, Dr. Jose Tovar-Camargo of Palestine Regional Medical Center said.
Dallas Hospitals Are Among the Most Overused in the Country
The Dallas region ranked in the bottom 20 percent nationwide for avoiding tests and procedures with no clinical benefit to patients.
By Will Maddox
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May 11, 2021
5:00 pm
According to research from the Lown Institute Hospitals Index, Texas is the fourth-worst U.S. state for avoiding overuse in hospitals. Dallas ranked 256 of 306 regions, and Fort Worth ranked 249. The index evaluates how well hospitals avoid tests and procedures that don’t benefit patients.
According to Lown’s research, every 80 seconds, a hospital in the U.S. delivers a low-value test or procedure to an older adult; Medicare and tax dollars often pick up the tab. Nearly two-thirds of all hysterectomies and almost a quarter of coronary stent procedures met the criteria. The survey looked at Medicare data between 2016 and 2018 for 3,100 hospitals around the country and identified 12 low-value services that hospi
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