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Texas hospitals are now required to ask for patients’ citizenship. Here’s what you should know.
Read full article: Texas hospitals are now required to ask for patients’ citizenship. Here’s what you should know.Gov. Greg Abbott wants to know how much hospitals spend caring for undocumented immigrants. Hospitals should not deny care based on how patients respond.
UPDATE: Harris Health resumes appointments, Port Houston reopens following worldwide computer outage
Read full article: UPDATE: Harris Health resumes appointments, Port Houston reopens following worldwide computer outageA week after Houston dealt with major power outages, the city was forced to work around a worldwide computer outage for several hours Friday morning.
‘I was out of oxygen’: Houston-area hospitals see increase in storm-related visits
Read full article: ‘I was out of oxygen’: Houston-area hospitals see increase in storm-related visitsMonday morning, after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas’ coast, a Pasadena woman – who does not want to be identified – like millions lost power. She was also running out of oxygen in her tanks.
Harris County officials to take legal action after TCEQ approves permit for concrete-crushing plant near LBJ Hospital
Read full article: Harris County officials to take legal action after TCEQ approves permit for concrete-crushing plant near LBJ HospitalHarris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee announced that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved a permit for a concrete crushing facility to be built near LBJ Hospital. The action has prompted legal action from county officials.
Elected officials discuss concrete crushing company near LBJ Hospital
Read full article: Elected officials discuss concrete crushing company near LBJ HospitalHarris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee will join elected officials to make remarks regarding an application for a company to construct a rock and concrete crushing facility next to Harris Health’s Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Hospital, which is a 215 licensed-bed acute care facility providing full medical services.
Thousands of Houston healthcare patients warned about massive data breach
Read full article: Thousands of Houston healthcare patients warned about massive data breachIf you've gotten a security notice in the mail recently you are not alone. Two different hospital system groups in our area are warning patients about a cybersecurity hack where confidential patient information was leaked.
The cost of gun violence and accidental shootings
Read full article: The cost of gun violence and accidental shootingsJune is Gun Violence Awareness month and data from the State Comptroller’s Office shows Texas spends tens of millions of dollars helping victims of this crime. However, data from the Harris Health system shows accidental shootings also have a heavy financial impact.
Houston jail staff faulted in state report following inmate death
Read full article: Houston jail staff faulted in state report following inmate deathThe Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Harris Health have provided the state an action plan after the Texas Jail Standards Commission found fault with how an inmate was handled inside a downtown Houston jail facility.
Texas Medical Center leaders fearful of what a bad flu season wound do to strained hospitals, staff
Read full article: Texas Medical Center leaders fearful of what a bad flu season wound do to strained hospitals, staffThere are a few factors that make us vulnerable to a bad flu season, and the main reason could be that people aren’t wearing masks like they did this time last year.
Kingwood woman relieved to learn more resources coming to Texas after her husband with COVID waited 4 days for ICU bed
Read full article: Kingwood woman relieved to learn more resources coming to Texas after her husband with COVID waited 4 days for ICU bedHarris County commissioners on Tuesday approved a $30 million dollar COVID-19 initiative to bring out-of-state nurses in to help overloaded hospitals in the county due to the COVID surge.
‘Huge sigh of relief’: Harris Health System receives help from 100 crisis nurses as COVID-19 cases continue to surge
Read full article: ‘Huge sigh of relief’: Harris Health System receives help from 100 crisis nurses as COVID-19 cases continue to surgeWith multiple hospitals in the Houston area dealing with staffing issues, the Harris Health System received some much-needed help on Thursday.
Power outage leaves health officials scrambling to administer 5,400 doses of coronavirus vaccine
Read full article: Power outage leaves health officials scrambling to administer 5,400 doses of coronavirus vaccineHOUSTON – Harris County health officials scrambled Monday to administer 8,430 doses of the coronavirus vaccine after a power outage caused some of the vials to thaw. That led to 8,430 doses of the Moderna vaccine to thaw. County officials contacted Moderna and were given guidance from the vaccine-maker that the remaining doses could be refrigerated and used later. Houston Methodist’s statementIn a statement, Houston Methodist officials said they had received 1,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the batch of thawed shots. Ad“We didn’t waste a drop,” said Robert Schwartz, executive vice president of Houston Methodist Hospital.
After 60-year career, Dr. Kenneth Mattox steps down as chief at Ben Taub Hospital
Read full article: After 60-year career, Dr. Kenneth Mattox steps down as chief at Ben Taub HospitalHOUSTON – A big congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Mattox, the chief of staff at Ben Taub General Hospital, who announced he will be retiring from his position there soon. This vision ultimately shaped what Ben Taub is today. During a 2018 interview, Dr. Mattox explained the hospital’s history of training military surgeons, a legacy that lives on today. “They would take their cellphone, put it into the wound and say ‘what do I do with this kind of injury?’” Dr. Mattox explained. “In the last five years, we’ve been the top three... of all the trauma centers in the United States!” Dr. Mattox said.
Former resident speaks out about unlicensed disabled and elderly group home where residents lived in fear
Read full article: Former resident speaks out about unlicensed disabled and elderly group home where residents lived in fearShe said residents lived in fear of violence from the home’s owner and other managers. Cynthia Jackson, 60, said she had nowhere else to go in August 2019, after she was released from Ben Taub Hospital’s psychiatric ward. “The caseworker (at Ben Taub) told me that they were going to call the group home,” she said. Jackson said many of the residents at the group homes where she lived between August 2019 and August 2020 came from Ben Taub Hospital. If they had an income and Ben Taub would send them there, he would say 'put 'em somewhere,” Jackson said.