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While proper nutrition is essential year-round, the lazy days of summer often bring a hidden challenge for families: filling the nutritional gap when school breakfasts and lunches end.“A lot of times the students are receiving a lot of their meals …

Since the Las Vegas Trail Neighborhood Health Center opened in August 2025, it has served as more than just a medical facility; it has become a one-stop shop for a community that was once a health care desert, providing health care clinics, …

Food insecurity affects the pediatric population from their time in utero until adulthood.  Mothers unable to consume adequate calories and a variety of healthy foods can lead to low birth weight infants and birth defects.  Breastfeeding mothers …

Sky Ramos, CHW, is blazing new trails for Cook Children’s Health Plan. As the organization’s first-ever clinic-based community health worker (CHW), Ramos will provide in-person guidance at the new neighborhood health center serving the Las Vegas …

Preston Benjaman-Sewell loves to make others laugh even in the midst of his own personal challenges. The 15-year-old from Lake Dallas has autism and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a rare and severe form of childhood epilepsy that often does not respond to …

You may have noticed something new on the Fort Worth campus - 125 life-sized child cutouts located outside the Dodson building on the green space near the roundabout and Peaks. Each cutout represents 1,000 Cook Children’s Health Plan Members who may …

Lisa Padilla has a passion for helping people. The entirety of her 25-year career has been spent in public and community health serving those living in often underserved communities. Four years ago, she brought that passion to Cook Children’s, where …

Cook Children's has expressed profound concern over a looming crisis that threatens health care access for Texas' most vulnerable children. A staggering 1.8 million children and expectant mothers statewide, including 125,000 within …

Cook Children's Health Plan (CCHP) is demonstrating its deep-rooted commitment to the well-being of North Texans this week by addressing access to healthy food for families in Arlington.CCHP joined forces with the Tarrant Area Food Bank, Arlington …

Media Statement from Cook Children’s Health Care System (Fort Worth, Texas – May 9, 2025)—Cook Children's expresses profound concern Today over a looming crisis that threatens health care access for Texas' most vulnerable children. A staggering …

Barry Corbin is an Emmy-award-winning actor, Fort Worth resident and grandfather of a Cook Children’s patient.Corbin and his grandson, Jordan Walker Ross, have experienced Cook Children’s care and kindness first-hand as Ross’ childhood was filled …

On June 2, 2025, the clock will run out on the Texas Legislature to prevent the largest Medicaid upheaval in state history, an upheaval that could cost Texans nearly 2,000 jobs and millions in tax dollars. Without immediate legislative action, …

In 2024, the Texas Health & Human Services Commission (HHSC) denied contract renewals to several Medicaid providers, including three non‑profit, Texas‑based children's hospital plans: Cook Children's Health Plan, Texas Children's Health Plan and …

As part of our efforts to protect Cook Children's Health Plan members, Rick Merrill, President and CEO of Cook Children's Health Care System, wrote an op-ed to the Dallas Morning News highlighting proposed bills that offer a ray of hope. He …

The Texas Health & Human Services Commission (HHSC) has denied Cook Children's Health Plan (CCHP) a contract and awarded the contract to several out-of-state, for-profit insurance companies. This decision by the HHSC puts 1.8 million children …

Every Child Matters. Protect Our Promise. Save Cook Children’s Health Plan.

By: Rick W. Merrill, President & CEO, Cook Children’s Health Care System Imagine being forced to forfeit a local, trusted resource that serves as your medically fragile child’s lifeline to out-of-state strangers for no good reason at all. That …

Cook Children's Health Plan (CCHP) remains committed to protecting more than 125,000 families who rely on our plan for the care and well-being of their children. The hope is that Texas representatives will recognize how beneficial and necessary this …

Since 2000, Cook Children's Health Plan has kept its commitment to safeguard the well-being of more than 125,000 families who rely on their plans, allowing them to uphold Cook Children’s bold Promise “to improve the well-being of every child in our …

Cook Children's Health Plan is facing a potential end, which could leave thousands of its members without access to their current care teams.Last year, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) denied Cook Children’s Health Plan a …

As part of our efforts to protect Cook Children's Health Plan members, Rick Merrill, President and CEO of Cook Children's Health Care System, wrote an op-ed to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram highlighting two proposed bills that offer a ray of hope. He …

Cook Children’s Health Plan (CCHP) is grateful to announce that a Travis County court has granted a Temporary Injunction, preventing the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) from awarding, signing or implementing any new contracts for …

By Charlotte SettleVivienne Molen, a 15-year-old with type 1 diabetes, is one of thousands of children who rely on the Cook Children’s Health Plan (CCHP) for life-saving treatment. Now, she is at risk of losing insurance coverage for the care she …

Written by Charlotte SettleOn March 7, 2024, Cook Children’s Health Plan (CCHP) was denied a new contract for STAR & CHIP Managed Care Services by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC). Though CCHP’s initial protest to this …

By Ashley AntleSamuel and Kathy Grace Sudolcan’s home is filled with love, joy and hope. You see it in the smiles of their three sons, including 2-year-old Zechariah, despite the fact that every breath he takes is dependent on a well-equipped and …

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Rick Merrill, President and CEO of Cook Children's Health Care System, wrote an op-ed to The Dallas Morning News in response to Texas Health and Human Services' decision to exclude Cook Children's Health Plan (CCHP) from the new STAR/CHIP contract …

Recent reporting from the Texas Tribune raises more questions about the procurement process for the STAR & CHIP Managed Care Services Contract. This is related to the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s (HHSC) plans to exclude Cook …

For over 20 years, Cook Children's Health Plan (CCHP) has proudly served hundreds of thousands of families through the STAR/CHIP Managed Care Services Program. We were recently disappointed to learn that the Texas Health and Human Services …

For over 20 years, Cook Children's Health Plan (CCHP) has proudly served hundreds of thousands of families through the STAR/CHIP Managed Care Services Program. We were recently disappointed to learn that the Texas Health and Human Services …