The project's investigative journalism has made an impact. Bexar County, for example, is using maps created for the series to change its approach.
Healthcare Regulation and Reform
In the southern part of the city, options for hospitals, medical specialists and surgical centers are limited. Those in the industry say there’s little motivation to change that.
Building on Express-News Reporter Laura Garcia's in-depth series on health care disparities in San Antonio, she will engage a panel of experts in a frank discussion about such inequities on the South Side, as well as solutions.
This project is supported by a grant from USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism 2022 California Impact Fund.
Texas Public Radio’s Yvette Benavides and David Martin Davies went to San Antonio’s Woodlawn Lake Park and talked to people about how diabetes is impacting their lives.
This project is supported by a grant from USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism 2022 California Impact Fund.
Bexar County will hire a county public health director and other core staff as part of an initiative to revamp health care in fast-growing outlying areas of the community, filling gaps in service that he said were revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
How policy decisions in Virginia led Latinos to being among the most likely to get infected, hospitalized and die in the first two years of the pandemic.
The Sun Journal analyzed data from Maine Department of Health and Human Services reports on child welfare, including 18 years of annual child protective services reports and annual reports on Office of Child and Family Services staffing.
The San Antonio Express-News analyzed historical census data between 1970 and 2020 that covered three topics: education atainment, Hispanic ethnicity and median family income.