Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

El Paso

health reporter for @elpasomatters via @report4america. previously food & environment for The Arizona Republic. @/priscillatotiya on IG and Threads

Articles

Rooted in resilience: Palestinians build lives, community in El Paso

4 days ago | elpasomatters.org | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

The Masoud family took root in El Paso in 1983 when Suleiman “Sal” Masoud arrived from the Dallas area, by way of Kuwait, and many miles, many years removed from his home village of Burqa in northwest Palestine. Masoud, now 63, was among the Palestinian and Arab immigrants – mostly men, many of them engineering students – who trickled into El Paso from the 1960s to 1980s to study at the University of Texas at El Paso.
El Paso measles cases: Tracking Texas outbreak from the border

2 weeks ago | elpasomatters.org | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

Election Day is coming! Your vote helps decide who leads our schools and how education dollars are spent. Use our voter guide to learn about candidates for EPISD, SISD, and EPCC school boards before heading to the polls. 👉 Read the voter guide This rolling article was last updated Wednesday, April 30 . The West Texas measles outbreak has spread to the borderlands, with 38 cases confirmed in El Paso County as of Wednesday, April 30.
Casi 1 mdd anuales ganará CEO del Centro Médico Universitario

2 weeks ago | diario.mx | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

Los integrantes (gerentes) de la Junta Directiva del Centro Médico Universitario (UMC) de El Paso aprobaron por unanimidad un aumento salarial de aproximadamente 12.8% para el director ejecutivo Jacob Cintron, lo que eleva su salario a 990,340 dólares, con efecto retroactivo al 1 de octubre de 2024, el inicio del año fiscal actual.
Raise for UMC El Paso CEO bumps him close to $1 million salary

3 weeks ago | elpasomatters.org | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

Early voting is here! Your vote helps shape the future of local schoolsâfrom budgets to classroom quality. đâď¸ Use our voter guide to learn about candidates for EPISD, SISD, and EPCC school boards. đ Read the voter guide Board managers of the University Medical Center of El Paso unanimously approved an approximately 12.8% pay raise for CEO Jacob Cintron, which brings his salary up to $990,340, retroactive to Oct.
Raise for UMC El Paso CEO bumps him close to $1 million salary

3 weeks ago | kfoxtv.com | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

Board managers of the University Medical Center of El Paso unanimously approved an approximately 12.8% pay raise for CEO Jacob Cintron, which brings his salary up to $990,340, retroactive to Oct. 1, 2024, the start of the current fiscal year. The merit pay is based on a compensation study of hospital CEOs and Cintron’s positive performance evaluation, according to an April 8 memo from board Chair Henry Gallardo.
SISD election: District 2, 3 candidates vye to represent Far Eastside amid school budget, management challenges

4 weeks ago | elpasomatters.org | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

Board candidate Phillip Shawn Ollis called the Socorro Independent School District’s financial crisis the “elephant in the room” looming over the May 3 election. Whoever is elected to the SISD board will inherit a debt that mounted over a decade before the current board – staring down the barrel of impending financial exigency, the equivalent of bankruptcy for education institutions – voted to lay off nearly 300 employees to shave $38 million from next year’s budget deficit.
Texas measles outbreak: El Paso confirms 3 more cases

1 month ago | elpasomatters.org | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

The El Paso Department of Public Health has confirmed three more measles cases this year – just a few days after confirming the area’s first measles cases amid the West Texas and Panhandle outbreak. The new cases involve a 1-year-old boy, a woman in her 30s and a man in his 40s, according to the news release sent Friday afternoon. The baby and woman were not vaccinated against measles while the vaccination history of the man is unknown.
Brote de sarampión: ¿cómo protegerse?

1 month ago | diario.mx | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

El sarampión, considerado erradicado en el año 2000 gracias a las altas tasas de vacunación, está resurgiendo este año con un brote que ha infectado a más de 500 personas en Texas. A principios de esta semana, El Paso confirmó sus dos primeros casos de sarampión en la zona. No existe ningún medicamento antiviral para tratar el sarampión.
Measles prevention: What to know about vitamin A, booster shots, infant vaccines, more

1 month ago | elpasomatters.org | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

Measles – considered eliminated in 2000 because of high vaccination rates – is making a comeback this year with an outbreak that’s infected more than 500 people in Texas. Earlier this week, El Paso confirmed its first two measles cases in the area. There is no antiviral drug that treats measles.
El Paso, Juárez confirm first measles cases linked to Texas outbreak

1 month ago | elpasomatters.org | Priscilla Totiyapungprasert

William Beaumont Army Medical Center has confirmed El Paso’s first case of measles connected to the ongoing West Texas and Panhandle outbreak. The patient was checked in Friday at the Mendoza Soldier Family Care Center on Fort Bliss, according to a Tuesday news release. Amabilia G. Payen, a spokesperson for the medical center, did not provide further details about the patient, including vaccination history. “That is why prevention is so important,” said Maj.

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