{"id":165990,"date":"2012-02-20T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T21:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=165990"},"modified":"2012-02-21T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T21:38:41","slug":"tyler-suspends-funding-to-total-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=165990","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Suspends Funding to Total Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=165991\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-165991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/02\/thumb_cityoftyler.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"thumb_cityoftyler\" width=\"99\" height=\"120\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-165991\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 Officials with the City of Tyler issued a letter Monday to Total Healthcare, suspending any future payments to the organization until concerns about its leadership can be allayed. That\u2019s according to KETK. Concerns about Total Healthcare\u2019s leadership have also been voiced by Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), which is a federal oversight agency, about what they call Total Healthcare\u2019s \u201cchronic inability to maintain organizational leadership over time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Total Healthcare\u2019s website, the organization \u201cprovides a medical home for patient-centered access to affordable, quality primary and preventive health care.\u201d The City of Tyler gives the organization about $22,000 a month, which is about $265,000 a year. City of Tyler spokesperson Susan Guthrie says the city has not had an official contract with Total Healthcare for more than a year, and has been working with them on a month to month basis. Guthrie says the city feels it\u2019s a steward of the public\u2019s tax money, and for that reason, the city feels obligated to suspend the payments.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Tyler has not ruled out funding the organization in the future, and city officials say they are willing to work with Total Healthcare if the leadership issues are resolved. Pamela Phoenix, the chairman of Total Healthcare, says that the organization is \u201cstill striving to help citizens with healthcare in this area.\u201d Phoenix also says Total Healthcare hopes this situation with the City of Tyler will be temporary, but that the organization does have other grants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 Officials with the City of Tyler issued a letter Monday to Total Healthcare, suspending any future payments to the organization until concerns about its leadership can be allayed. That\u2019s according to KETK. Concerns about Total Healthcare\u2019s leadership have also been voiced by Health Resources and Service Administration (HRSA), which is a federal oversight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=165990\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tyler Suspends Funding to Total Healthcare<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 05:17:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165990"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166273,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165990\/revisions\/166273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}