Center for Health Statistics	The Portal for Comprehensive Health Data in Texas

February , 2012

The Critical Access Hospital (CAH) designation is available for small rural hospitals that meet certain federal and state criteria. This allows for increased service and staffing flexibility and increased reimbursement from Medicare.

Here is a list of Annual Survey of Hospital reports for CAH hospitals as of October 13, 2011:

• Gross Patient Revenue by Payor Source Report
• Nonprofit Hospital Charity Care
• Surgical Operations for Texas Acute Care Hospitals
• Pediatric, Neonatal and Obstetric Report
• Utilization Report
• Emergency and Outpatient Utilization Report
• Texas Acute Care Fact Sheet

For more information, please contact the Hospital Survey Unit at (512) 776-7261 or e-mail feedback.opp@dshs.state.tx.us

August 25, 2011

In January 2011, the first set of Census 2010 data products for Texas was released. CHS staff have analyzed the change in Texas' population and produced two webpages detailing changes between 2000 and 2010. As more Census 2010 becomes available additional results will be available on our website.

Texas added 4,293,741 residents between April 1, 2000 and April 1, 2010. Between 2000 and 2010 all races and ethnicities grew in total population. The Hispanic ethnicity was the fastest growing group in Texas with 2,791,255 new residents. 79 counties in Texas had a population decline from 2000-2010. 

Find these tables of  early results from the 2010 Census on the population pages of the DSHS Center for Health Statistics.

Women increasingly dominate the health care professions.  In Texas last year (2010) almost 75 percent of health care professionals analyzed were female, according to the latest report from the Health Professions Resource Center at the DSHS Center for Health Statistics.  The new report, The Feminization of the Health Care Workforce: Implications for Texas - 2011 , details the gains women have made in specific professions and some of the changes in lifestyle and practice patterns that accompany this continuing trend.

You'll find this report on the HPRC website, under Publications .

A number of data products and series have been recently updated:

Selected Health Facts for Texas, 2008 continues this long running series. 

The 2008 Migration for Birth report provides county by county data on utilization patterns for obstetrical services.

The latest data on Texas health professionals (2010) from the Health Professions Resource Center is available again on the CHS website.

March 15, 2011

Maybe you have noticed that the DSHS website is changing.  The agency just launched a new version of the website that involves a major revision to the development platform that we use to create content pages.  So you may not find some of the most recent content while we learn how to incorporate those pages into the new system. 

Annual Vital Statistics Report, 2008 ( births, deaths, marriages, divorces, abortions ) have been updated for 2008.  Most tables have been edited for content, if not for style.