| 1990 |
Telemedicine program established, with first consult to Alpine,Texas, to provide emergency specialty care to a newborn
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| 1994 |
Telemedicine Program expands to provide medical care to correctional population
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| 1997 |
Office of Rural and Community Health established at the Vice President level to coordinate TTUHSC rural health focus
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| 2001 |
Texas Legislatrue establishes annual funding for TTUHSC rural-focused efforts
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| 2002 |
Opened the AHEC of the Plains (Plainview)
Initiated Telemedicine burn care to expand specialty resources to El Paso and surrounding region
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| 2003 |
Obtained federal funding for the West Texas AHEC Program to support western half of Texas
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| 2004 |
Opened the Panhandle AHEC (Amarillo) and Permian Basin AHEC (Midland)
Initiated development of rural research program with NIH funding
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| 2005 |
Opened the Big Country AHEC (Abilene)
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| 2006 |
Ms. F. Marie Hall established the Institute for Rural and Community Health
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| 2008 |
Launched Phase II of Project FRONTIER, formerly the Cochran County Aging Study.
Opened the Borderland AHEC (El Paso) to complete AHEC coverage for the State of Texas
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| 2009 |
Project FRONTIER expanded into Parmer County
Deployed expanded Texas HOT Jobs web resource for State of Texas
Launched community-based telemedicine expansion through HHSC project
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| 2010 |
Established the West Texas Health Information Technology Center to support regional EHR implementation
Established a collaboration of Project FRONTIER and TARC (Texas Alzheimer's Research Consortium) for the recruitment of Mexican-Americans to participate in Alzheimer's research
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| 2011 |
Received EPA grant study groundwater arsenic exposure and impacts on health
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