Undocumented patients and mixed status families pose special challenges for health care providers.
Nearly half a million Texans live in substandard conditions in colonias -- 2,300 unincorporated and isolated border towns with limited access to potable water, sewer systems, electricity, sanitary housing or health care. Emily Ramshaw reports on their health conditions.
Ken Underwood is CEO of the San Benito Healthcare District, a nine-facility health care entity that includes Hazel Hawkins Memorial Hospital. In 1957, voters in San Benito County approved the formation of a "hospital district" to manage health care services in the county.
