Texas Health Action

Annual Report FY2022

  Our Mission

Texas Health Action is a community informed non-profit organization dedicated to providing access to culturally affirming, quality health services in a safe and supportive environment with an expertise in serving LGBTQIA+ people and people impacted by HIV.

 our Values – A.T.T.I.R.E. 

Accountability for self and others

Total Inclusion

Cultivate Trust in all our relationships

Drive Innovation

Respect all

Pursue Excellence​​​​​​​​​​​​​

  Our Leadership

  Our board

Rich Gottbrath, Chair

Johnny Devora, Vice Chair

Michelle Auwae-Lapilio, Secretary

Javier Lemus, Treasurer

Grayson Cabian

Nikelle Meade

Melanie Pokluda

Dana Sprute, MD

David Weigle, Ph.D.


  Our Executive Team

Christopher Hamilton, Chief Executive Officer

Chris Adams, Chief Financial Officer

Megan Brunson, Chief Operating Officer

Dr. Sandra Guerra, Chief Medical Officer

Juan Benitez, Chief Advancement Officer  

Texas Health Action, Kind Clinic
The challenges and barriers may seem daunting, but I am undeterred. I am confident we can address these head on, because of the love and support in our community.
Christopher Hamilton
CEO

The staff, board, and volunteers of Texas Health Action have persevered through many challenges over the last year and continue to provide exceptional health services in the safe and supportive environment that all our programs are known for. This report of our last fiscal year is a great moment to reflect on the successes our teams have had in service of LGBTQIA+ people and people impacted by HIV in Texas.

To be Texas Health Action, we must also look ahead and be prepared for the future. We will of course continue to face challenges in healthcare like declining reimbursement and barriers with insurance, drug companies seeking to limit any losses from discounts, regulatory changes, and on and on.

There are other challenges that are unique to this moment in time and to our state, including recruiting staff, affordability in cities like Austin and its impact on staff as well as patients and clients; political winds like eliminating PrEP from certain insurance plans, and the potential elimination of preventative services from ACA governed insurance plans. Our state and some of its politicians are targeting LGBTQIA+ people, transgender and gender expansive people in particular. All of these structural barriers will continue to negatively impact health outcomes.

The only way forward through this is together. We need all the allies we can muster. We need partnerships to help our patients and clients. And we need our communities to help support us through donations and volunteering. We will continue to find ways around these structural barriers and do what we need to in order to take care of us… After all, we are LGBQTIA+, we are people living with HIV, we are allies. It is us, taking care of us.

The challenges and barriers may seem daunting, but I am undeterred. I am confident we can address these head on, because of the love and support in our community. We can do this, together.

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 Our staff

Who We Are

The people of Texas Health Action are what sets us apart and allows us to provide affirming, non-judgmental, non-stigmatizing health services.  During the course of the year, we grew our workforce to 170 employees to meet the needs of an increasing number of people seeking care as well as our additions of clinics and supports.

Staff Demographics*

  • 39% Hispanic or Latino
  • 38% White
  • 15% Black or African American
  • 4% Asian or Pacific Islander
  • 3% Two or more Race
  • 1% Native American or Alaska Native.

Board Demographics*

·       50% White

·       25% Hispanic or Latino

·       12% Black

·       12% two or more races. 

*Using Equal Employment Opportunity Commission categories of race and ethnicity. 

 Our volunters

Kind Krew, Texas Health Action

The Kind Krew

In 2022 we relaunched our volunteer program and rebranded it to be known as the Kind Krew, with the great support of so many people that want to help us carry on our mission in each of our locations.

  • 23 Interns/ Externs/ Clinical volunteers supporting each of the Kind Clinic locations.
  • 128 volunteers that served 84 events, providing 1,060 hours of help for our programs.

We continue to grow our volunteers every month. All of our volunteers have been an integral part of our success, and is part of our origin, starting completely as a volunteer organization.

 

 Our Impact

Over the course of the 2022 fiscal year, Texas Health Action provided health services to 18,000 people across Texas. There are patients and clients of Texas Health Action in 172 of the 254 counties of Texas.

 Our Financials

Financials Here

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