Wallace Award Winner: Discourse and Diagnosis in ADHD

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Marian Morris, a doctoral student in the School of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin, and a 2016 recipient of the Frances Fowler Wallace Award from the Hogg Foundation, has recently completed her dissertation, “A Discourse Analysis of How Nurses Talk about...

$682,000 in Grants Awarded to Train Mental Health Peer Policy Fellows in Texas

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

AUSTIN, Texas – Five nonprofit advocacy groups received a total of $682,000 over two years to hire an in-house fellow through the Hogg Mental Health Peer Policy Fellows Grants program. The fellows are certified peer specialists who will receive intensive training,...

Organizational Change Management: Common Pitfalls in Leading Transformation Efforts

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

Re-engineer. Reinvent. Rightsize. Reorganization. Restructure. Change over. Shift. Conversion. Turnaround. Just a few of the terms used to indicate transformation. The ultimate goal of transformation is to respond to market changes by changing the way business...

Nightmare at Noon: The Hogg Foundation Remembers the UT Tower Shooting

Monday, August 1, 2016

On this day 50 years ago, The University of Texas and the greater Austin community lived through the worst tragedy in its history: the Charles Whitman mass shooting. It started around 11:30 a.m., and lasted for approximately 90 minutes. In the decades since, the...

Hogg Foundation Statement on Recent Tragedies

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The past few weeks have been truly trying times for our state and nation: the ambush and murder of five police officers in Dallas, the tragic deaths of two African American men at the hands of police officers in Louisiana and Minnesota, and the horrific act of...

Finding the Sweet Spot: The Comparison of Two Promising Models to Financing Health Care

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Our health care system stands at a crossroads as it struggles with how to appropriately finance health care. The fee-for-service system, the dominant payment model in the U.S., is widely recognized as perhaps one of the single biggest obstacles to reforming health...