Texas Health is teaming up with Gallup to launch a first-of-its kind nutrition security study to gain a better understanding of the challenges around healthy food access. The findings of the study, which will focus on Tarrant, Dallas, and Collin counties, will help guide Texas Health’s expansion of current programs, engage the community in long-terms solutions, and increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables in North Texas.

Double Up Food Bucks doubles SNAP benefits for fresh produce in Dallas, Lake Worth & Saginaw

Texas Health Resources was recently honored with the Texas Hospital Association’s 2022 Excellence in Community Service Award the accomplishments of Blue Zones Project, a well-being initiative in Tarrant County implemented by North Texas Healthy Communities (NTHC), the nonprofit outreach arm of Texas Health Resources. The award recognizes hospitals and health care systems that distinguished themselves through contributions to their communities. Brought to Fort Worth in 2014, Blue Zones Project works to make healthy choices easier and more accessible.

Students at two Fort Worth schools will return in the fall to find recess a lot more fun thanks to colorful sidewalk games created by Texas Health volunteers and Blue Zones Project Fort Worth. The games, including hopscotch, chess, tic-tac-toe and basketball, were recently painted at Versia Williams and M.H. Moore elementary schools as part of a “recess refresh” to the paved areas of the schools’ playgrounds.

Texas Health Resources, in collaboration with Blue Zones Project Fort Worth, is helping provide North Texas businesses with tools to safely reopen their doors and remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Texas Health is offering business operators free guides and materials that include cleaning and disinfecting tips and strategies for keeping employees healthy and safe.

As the primary sponsor of Blue Zones Project Fort Worth, Texas Health Resources is leading the communitywide well-being improvement movement.