Texas Health Steps Texas Health Steps Program is program of the Texas Department of Health providing preventative, primary, and dental care to Medicaid eligible youth from birth to age twenty-one.
Healthy children learn more and are more likely to grow up to be healthy productive adults.
However, in Nueces County approximately 38,717 youths are eligible to take part in the Texas Health Steps Program, and in 1997 only 26,328 took advantage of this program.