The Harris Health System Board of Trustees unanimously approved a request to the Harris County Commissioners Court to order a bond election for an estimated $2.5 billion. This request is to finance the rebuilding and upgrading of Harris Health’s facilities, which are quickly reaching their end of use and have been operating at near-full capacity for years. If passed in the November 2023 ballot, this bond referendum will provide much-needed investment for the public safety […]
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Harris Health System Partners with South Texas College of Law Houston to Offer Patients Free Legal Aid
Harris Health System and South Texas College of Law Houston (STCL Houston) are teaming up to provide free legal services to patients needing to address ‘health harming’ situations. These situations might include a patient suffering from chronic asthma stuck in mold-infested rental property, a patient unable to get a job because of a misdemeanor criminal record as a young person or a patient unable to update their Social Security benefits because of an incomplete divorce. […]
Harris Health Rolls Out $1M Mobile Unit to Screen 6,000 Women for Breast Cancer
Harris Health System rolled out a brand new 45-foot mammography mobile unit with the goal of screening about 6,000 women a year for breast cancer. The $1 million mobile unit will take 3D mammography screening capability to neighborhoods across the county. The new mobile unit replaces a retired model that began use in 2008 and provided nearly 50,000 mammography screenings. As Harris Health increases its in-facility mammography services at some of its locations, the new […]
Harris County Resident with Severe Illnesses in Addition to Being Presumptive Positive for Monkeypox Passes Away Autopsy results will be available in the next few weeks
An adult with various severe illnesses who was also presumptive positive for monkeypox died on August 28, 2022, at a Harris County hospital. At this time, the patient’s cause of death is unknown. Harris County Public Health (HCPH) is collaborating with partners to determine what role, if any, monkeypox may have played in this person’s death. An autopsy is in process, and the final report will be available in the next few weeks. “We are sharing this information […]
Harris Health System Receives Gage Award, America’s Essential Hospitals’ Highest Honor
HOUSTON (June 23, 2022) — Harris Health System has received the 2022 Gage Award for Population Health from America’s Essential Hospitals for its home visit program that helps diabetes patients manage their disease, particularly through the COVID-19 pandemic. It marks Harris Health’s second population health program recognized by the national association in consecutive years. Harris Health’s Community Health Worker Home Visit Program helps patients through direct home visits control their diabetes (participants with hemoglobin A1C levels […]
Harris Health System Receives National Recertification of 16 Medical Home Sites
Harris Health System recently received recertification of 16 of its health centers and clinics as Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the highest such recognition from the national organization. The term “medical home” describes a healthcare delivery site where patients have an ongoing relationship with a personal physician. Under this model, care based on illnesses and patient complaints are replaced with coordinated care and a long-term healing relationship with […]
Harris Health System Receives National Recertification of 16 Medical Home Sites
Harris Health System recently received recertification of 16 of its health centers and clinics as Patient-Centered Medical Home Recognition from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the highest such recognition from the national organization. The term “medical home” describes a healthcare delivery site where patients have an ongoing relationship with a personal physician. Under this model, care based on illnesses and patient complaints are replaced with coordinated care and a long-term healing relationship with […]
Harris Health System Offers New Parental Leave Benefit for Full-Time Employees
Harris Health System has begun offering a new parental paid leave benefit to all full-time employees welcoming a new child to their families. “This policy change firmly demonstrates care and compassion toward our employees, providing paid and protected essential bonding and recovery time after the birth or adoption of a child,” says Omar C. Reid, senior vice president, Human Resources, Harris Health. The new benefit began March 1 and provides up to four weeks of […]
Harris Health System Receives Elite Commission on Cancer Accreditation
Cancer patients at Harris Health System receive top treatment and care, affirmed by its recent accreditation from the Commission on Cancer by the American College of Surgeons. The three-year recognition assures patients that its comprehensive cancer programs meet stringent quality care standards. The accreditation places Harris Health among elite cancer institutions across the country that follow a multidisciplinary approach to treat cancer as a complex group of diseases that requires consultation among surgeons, medical and […]
Harris Health System Implements Tighter Visitation Restrictions as COVID Cases Mount
Harris Health System is reinstituting tighter visitor restrictions in its hospitals and clinics as the spread of COVID is accelerating in the greater Houston community. To help reduce the risk of transmission of COVID to both staff and patients, in-person visitation is being restricted as follows, effective Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021. Hospital Visitation Restrictions Harris Health will allow one healthy visitor per day at Ben Taub and Lyndon B. Johnson hospitals for NON-COVID+ or NON-PUI […]