Emotional promises from Austin leaders after KXAN hospital safety report

Editor’s Note: KXAN Investigator Matt Grant discusses our team’s initiative sharing hospital security barrier findings with Texas lawmakers.Project Summary:
This story is part of KXAN’s “Preventing Disaster” investigation, which initially published on May 15, 2024. The project follows a fatal car crash into an Austin hospital’s emergency room earlier that year. Our team took a broader look at safety concerns with that crash and hundreds of others across the na