Harris 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.

A Houston mayoral candidate wants to solve the city’s problems.

Houston police have released several bodycam videos showing the detainment and transport of a patient who, while possibly under the influence of an illegal substance, died shortly after arriving to Lyndon Baines Johnson Hospital.

As medical professionals continue dealing with a surge in COVID-19 patients, the impact is certainly being felt across Houston-area hospitals.

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HOUSTON – The Harris Health System has found itself in a predicament as they expect to run out of their COVID-19 vaccine supply Friday. But, industry experts say the shortage will affect much more than Harris Health patients. Harris Health serves the uninsured and underinsured from low-income communities. For now, the final doses run out today with Harris Health unsure of when the next batch will arrive. Harris Health had been running seven vaccination sites but only ran one Friday.

HOUSTON – A water main break at LBJ Hospital is causing some issues. Officials said there was an issue with an external mainline. LBJ Hospital is under diversion, which means they are not accepting new patients. Ambulances are being diverted to other facilities as crews work to fix the issue. It is unknown how long those repairs may take, but officials said they expect crews will be working through the night.

A MD Anderson Cancer Center building in the Texas Medical Center in Houston on June 26, 2020. These internal messages highlight the growing strain that the coronavirus crisis is putting on hospital systems in the Houston region, where the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 has nearly quadrupled since Memorial Day. As of Tuesday, more than 3,000 people were hospitalized for the coronavirus in the region, including nearly 800 in intensive care. Just as New York hospitals did four months ago, some Houston hospitals have posted on traveling nurse websites seeking nurses for crisis response jobs.If they dont have the nursing staff, then you cant place the patient, Pea said. Houstons public hospitals, Ben Taub and Lyndon B. Johnson, dont have those same resources.

A local first-grader is spreading a little bit of happiness to local nurses and doctors on the frontlines. On May 1, Houston-natives London and her brother TJ Boyce provided hundreds of staff members at LBJ Hospital with Bluebell Ice Cream mini sandwiches, which London is the new face of. London works closely with her siblings on their family’s Boyce Ice Cream Truck. According to a release, London has a passion for making others smile, so this idea to serve ice cream to health care workers came about when she saw on the news how hard medical heroes have been working to keep our community healthy. London and TJ will give out free ice cream and popsicles to nurses and doctors on Monday at Houston Methodist Hospital.