Although non-profit healthcare systems like the SETON Healthcare Network and its partners already provide millions of dollars each year in charity care, expanding medical education in Central Texas will further strengthen the community’s safety net. This is because medical schools and teaching hospitals are committed to serving those without health insurance and the medically needy.
And Central Texas has a lot of people in need. The federal government considers much of the region “medically underserved.” What’s more, between 2001 and 2003, nearly 18% of the population in the Austin-San Marcos metropolitan areas had no health insurance.
Seton is proud to have four hospitals – the only hospitals in Central Texas - that have earned the