The commissioners' approval came after they expressed frustration about approving a tax rate increase while Central Health has hundreds of millions of dollars available in reserves.
Central Health CEO Mike Geeslin attends a forum in 2017. Travis County commissioners on Tuesday approved the public health care district's $744 million budget.
Commissioners also approved a tax rate of 10.07 cents per $100 valuation, which will add $56 to the average homeowner's bill., a seven-year effort to add new clinics and services to serve low-income residents. Travis County ordered in 2017. The third-party auditor noted that Central Health was unique among public hospital districts in Texas in that it does not itself operate a hospital that provides care to poor and indigent residents. Rather, it contracts with Ascension Seton to offer these services at Dell Seton Medical Center. The auditor said the model has benefits, but also means Central Health has “less day-to-day control over how care is being delivered.
Brown encouraged Central Health leaders to return Tuesday with more detail about its track record of providing care at health centers in Eastern Travis County, along with how it plans to spend its contingency reserves. He also pushed them to consider contributing funding to Travis County inmate health services and its“I’m trying to help you here,” Brown said, “because I think right now it’s not going great for y’all.
“They really do go out and listen to the community. The priorities laid out for the next seven years are what the community asked for,” Zapata said.
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