Olivia Aldridge
Health Care ReporterOlivia joined the station in 2023 after several years of working for Community Impact, where she reported on Austin and launched and produced podcasts covering local news in the Austin, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth metro areas.
Previously, she was a reporter and producer for South Carolina’s NPR station, South Carolina Public Radio. Olivia grew up in Monticello, Ga.
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Hace un año, se abrió un número de tres cifras para las personas que llamaban en situaciones de crisis en todo Estados Unidos: 988.
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Integral Care's chief operations officer credited the easy-to-remember number for the uptick.
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The nurses' union announced it had served the hospital with a required 10-day notice of the day-long strike.
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El año pasado, Austin registró los meses de mayo, junio y julio más calurosos de la historia. Sólo entre mayo y julio, los servicios de urgencias atendieron 486 incidentes relacionados con el calor.
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Austin EMS officers responded to hundreds of heat-related illnesses last year. Now, as things heat up, they want people to know the signs.
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Los barrios económicamente desfavorecidos del East Side de Austin experimentaron tasas de infección por COVID-19 significativamente más altas, según un nuevo estudio de expertos de la Universidad de Texas en Austin.
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While national data has long suggested that COVID-19 has affected low-income and minority groups at higher rates than others, this new research offers a hyperlocal view of pandemic disparities in Austin.
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A security event affecting two of the local hospital system's websites in March may have put some patients' sensitive information at risk.
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The union and hospital management have been negotiating for months, but reached a stalemate over key provisions including guaranteed nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
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After the hospital announced the departure of doctors in its adolescent medicine clinic, patients and their families are looking for new care providers — in Texas and beyond.