Texas Hospital Association

Author

  • Joey Berlin

    Joey Berlin is the director of advocacy communications at THA. He creates and oversees creation of content to further THA’s messaging on sound health care policymaking at both the state and federal levels, primarily focused on legislative and regulatory matters.

    View all posts Joey Berlin is the director of advocacy communications at THA. He creates and oversees creation of content to further THA’s messaging on sound health care policymaking at both the state and federal levels, primarily focused on legislative and regulatory matters. Regular pieces of content in which Joey plays a central role include THA’s weekly email newsletter, the Health Care Advocate; issue-focused white papers, state and federal priorities documents; the creation of advocacy videos highlighting important issues; and THA’s end-of-session report that recaps important legislation passed in each session of the Texas Legislature. Joey has served in communications roles in the health care trade association industry for nearly a decade. Prior to THA, he worked in communications at the Texas Medical Association (TMA) for seven years, serving as a reporter, associate editor of the association’s monthly magazine, and finally managing editor of TMA’s daily email newsletter. His areas of focus at TMA included legislative affairs, law, public health and quality. Before TMA, Joey spent most of his career in the world of daily news journalism, working at the Topeka Capital-Journal and Emporia Gazette newspapers in both reporting and editing roles in the news and sports departments, and for the news division of WorkCompCentral, a website focused on workers’ compensation. Awards that Joey has won for his newspaper work include a First Place award from the Kansas Press Association for Government/Political Story (Daily Division 2), and Wrestling Media of the Year from the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association for his high school wrestling coverage. Joey has lived in Austin since 2014 and joined THA in 2022. He’s originally from Leawood, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City.

Articles by Joey Berlin

May 1, 2023
4 min read

Cap Recap

Each week during the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, The Scope’s Cap Recap will take a quick look at the previous week’s most hospital-relevant news under the Pink Dome in Austin.
April 18, 2023
7 min read

‘We Really Can’t Afford to Lose Any More’

Workplace violence can change a hospital worker’s life in a horrifying flash – whether that moment involves a gunshot or even an unarmed violent outburst. Hospital workers will often rebound from such incidents with severe emotional trauma. They may even decide that rebound won’t include continuing their work in the same setting. Suzanne Magee, the emergency department director at Titus…
April 11, 2023
7 min read

The THA 10: Highlighting Legislation Most Important to Texas Hospitals

About midway through the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, the Texas Hospital Association is tracking more than 1,600 pieces of legislation.
March 27, 2023
4 min read

Cap Recap: THA Gets Frank About Troublesome Rate-Setting

This week in the Cap Recap, THA testified against problematic rate-setting bill, progress on post-partum maternal coverage, and testimony against covid mandates.
March 20, 2023
4 min read

Cap Recap: Workplace Violence Bill Clears First Hurdle

Each week during the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, The Scope’s Cap Recap will take a quick look at the previous week’s most hospital-relevant news under the Pink Dome in Austin.
March 13, 2023
4 min read

Cap Recap: Hawkins Stresses Hospitals’ Needs in County Affairs Committee

Each week during the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, The Scope’s Cap Recap will take a quick look at the previous week’s most hospital-relevant news under the Pink Dome in Austin.
February 28, 2023
7 min read

Reeling in Rural Texas

Three times during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dimmit Regional Hospital came close to taking out a loan just to make payroll. One of those times, the Carrizo Springs facility – tucked deep in rural Southwest Texas – came within mere hours of heading to the bank. Then, Dimmit’s uncompensated care payment came in the day before the hospital needed to arrange…
February 27, 2023
3 min read

Feb. 27, 2023

Each week during the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, The Scope’s Cap Recap will take a quick look at the previous week’s most hospital-relevant news under the Pink Dome in Austin.
February 20, 2023
3 min read

Feb. 20, 2023

Each week during the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, The Scope’s Cap Recap will take a quick look at the previous week’s most hospital-relevant news under the Pink Dome in Austin.
February 13, 2023
3 min read

Feb. 13, 2023

Each week during the 2023 session of the Texas Legislature, The Scope’s Cap Recap will take a quick look at the previous week’s most hospital-relevant news under the Pink Dome in Austin.
Previous1234Next