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Harris Health System

The Harris Health System, previously the Harris County Hospital District (HCHD), is a governmental entity with taxing authority that owns and operates three hospitals and numerous clinics throughout Harris County, Texas, United States, including the city of Houston. The entity's administrative offices are in Bellaire, Texas.[1]

Current logo
Harris County Hospital District logo (prior to 2012)

Harris Health System is an integrated delivery system that provides healthcare services open to all residents of Harris County, Texas. It is the first accredited healthcare institution in Harris County to be designated as an NCQA Medical Home[2] and one of the largest in the country.

History Edit

 
Former Harris Health System Administration Building

The Harris County Hospital District was created by voter referendum on November 20, 1965 and was formally designated as a political subdivision with taxing authority on January 1, 1966. Its creation is largely attributed to the publication of Jan de Hartog's novel The Hospital, which described the horrific conditions of the Jefferson Davis Charity Hospital. The new district replaced an existing city-county system in which the two governmental bodies shared funding responsibility.[3] Quentin Ronald Mease was a founder and chairman of the Harris County Hospital District and chaired the Harris County Hospital Foundation.[4]

A Hospital District is a governmental entity in Texas, established pursuant to the Texas Constitution[5] or the general statutes of Texas, and its purpose is to provide medical care to the needy residents of a particular county.[6]

By 1989, the hospital had exceeded U.S. federal patient mortality rates for two years in a row; Ben Taub and Jefferson Davis were the sole Houston hospitals above their predicted mortality rates. Roger Widmeyer, the district spokesperson, said "We are a very unique hospital because of the number of acutely ill patients we receive. We think the taxpayers understand that we handle a lot of sick people here. A lot of the people we treat don't come to the hospitals until they are very, very sick."[7]

By 1990, when LBJ received an emergency room and Ben Taub received an emergency care facility, the district began to assign county residents to each hospital depending on zip code. Residents of northern areas in the county, including patients treated at Acres Home, Settegast, Bordersville and Baytown clinics were assigned to LBJ. Residents of southern areas, including patients at Casa de Amigos, Martin Luther King, Ripley House, Strawberry Road, and West End county clinics were assigned to Ben Taub.[8]

In January 2012, board members of Harris County Hospital District approved a rebranding to Harris Health System.[9] The rebranding became effective in promotion of the system starting September 6,[10] 2012.

Hospitals Edit

 
Ben Taub General Hospital
 
Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital

Its two main hospitals serve approximately one million under-insured and uninsured people, nearly a quarter of the entire population of Harris County, the third most-populous county in the United States. Harris County includes Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States. Ben Taub General Hospital is a level I trauma center with 650 licensed beds. It is located in the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical complex in the world, and is staffed by faculty, residents, and students of Baylor College of Medicine.[11]

Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital is a 332-bed general hospital with a level 3 trauma center located northeast of Downtown Houston. It is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.[citation needed] After Jefferson Davis Hospital closed, LBJ opened in 1989.[12] An outpatient center next to the hospital opened in 2013.[13]

Quentin Mease Community Hospital has 25 beds for long-term physical rehabilitation and 24 beds in its geriatric services program. It is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine.[citation needed]

In August 2009 Memorial Hermann Hospital announced possible plans to sell its Southwest Hospital in Greater Sharpstown to the Harris Health System, which, if purchased would make the hospital its third general hospital.[14] The county withdrew its bid in September 2009.[15]

Clinics Edit

 
Former Quentin Mease Community Hospital in the Third Ward, Houston
 
Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center
 
Casa de Amigos Health Center
 
El Franco Lee Health Center

Harris Health System operates 12 Community Health Centers, a dental center, eight School-Based Clinics, 13 homeless shelter clinics and four mobile health clinics.[16] These clinics offer primary care as well as a variety of specialty care such as psychiatry, dentistry, obstetrical/gynecological, podiatry, ophthalmology, pharmacy, psychiatry and counseling, laboratory and x-ray services, HIV/AIDS case management, and a variety of nutrition, health education and social services.[16] Thomas Street Health Center was the first freestanding HIV/AIDS clinic in the United States, and today treats nearly a third of all HIV/AIDS patients in Harris County.

Community-based health care centers include:

  • Baytown: Baytown Health Center[17]
  • Houston
    • Acres Home Health Center[18] - The health center opened on May 17, 1971.[19]
    • Casa de Amigos Health Center[20]
    • El Franco Lee Health Center (opened on May 19, 2009)[21]
    • Gulfgate Health Center (opened on September 18, 2000)[22]
    • Martin Luther King Health Center[23]
    • Northwest Health Center[24] (formerly the West End Health Center, opened 1974[25])
    • Settegast Health Center[26]
    • Thomas Street Health Center[27] - It opened in 1989 and serves AIDS patients.[28]
    • Valbona Health Center (formerly People's Health Center[29])
  • Humble: E. A. "Squatty" Lyons Health Center (opened 1991)[30][31]
  • Pasadena:
    • Strawberry Health Center[32]
    • Pediatric and Adolescent Health Center - Pasadena
  • Unincorporated areas
    • Aldine Health Center[33]
    • Cypress Health Center (Cypress)
    • Danny Jackson Health Center (Greater Katy)
    • Pediatric & Adolescent Health Center - Bear Creek

Prior to 1991 the county operated a clinic in the Bordersville area of Houston. In 1991 the Lyons Clinic opened and the county closed the Bordersville clinic.[31] The county's Ripley clinic closed as a result of the opening of the Gulfgate clinic in 2000.[22]

The Martin Luther King Health Center first opened on April 28, 1972. Quentin Mease opened in 1983.[34] At one point, the MLK health center was located on the first and third floors of Quentin Mease.[35] MLK's standalone facility on Cullen Boulevard was scheduled to open in 2009 and free space at Quentin Mease.[36] On May 14, 2010, MLK relocated to a site in southern Houston, on Swingle Road.[34][37]

Acres Homes clinic got a $3.5 million expansion that broke ground in 1999.[38]

As of 2011 the dental centers take patients of ages 16 and up with patients under that age referred to the City of Houston's dental clinics.[39]

Administrative office Edit

 
Harris Health System offices

Its current administrative office is the Fournace facility in Bellaire, Texas.[1] The facility has ten floors, of which the district occupies seven. The district moved employees from the 2525 Holly Hall, 9240 Kirby and 9250 Kirby facilities, all in the city of Houston, into Fournace.[40] In addition to 2525 Holly Hall and 9250 Kirby, 2636 S. Loop in Houston once housed the Community Health Choice offices.[41]

In 1992 the district moved into the Holly Hall building, which has 110,000 square feet (10,000 m2) of space. In 2017 the district named the Holly Hall building after Elvin Franklin Jr.[42]

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ a b "Fournace". Harris Health System. Retrieved 2021-10-19. Fournace 4800 Fournace Place Bellaire, TX 77401
  2. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2013-03-01.
  3. ^ Gonzales, J. R. "The Hospital". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  4. ^ "Quentin Mease Biography". The History Makers. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  5. ^ . See Tex. Const. art. IX, § 4; Tex. Health & Safety Code § 281.002
  6. ^ Tex. Const. art. IX, § 4; Tex. Health & Safety Code Ann. §§ 281.002, 282.049.
  7. ^ Perry, Earnest L. "." Houston Chronicle. Thursday December 21, 1989. A39.
  8. ^ Zuniga, Jo Ann and Mitch Whitten. "." Houston Chronicle. Friday June 29, 1990. A24.
  9. ^ Johnson, Laurie (2012-01-27). "Changes Ahead for Harris County Hospital District". Houston Public Media. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  10. ^ . Harris Health System. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  11. ^ "Ben Taub Hospital". Retrieved 2023-09-10.
  12. ^ . Harris County Hospital District. May 1999. Archived from the original on 1999-10-09. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  13. ^ "Harris Health System dedicates new Outpatient Center". Houston Chronicle. 2013-10-28. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
  14. ^ O'Hare, Peggy. "County wants to buy Memorial Hermann SW." Houston Chronicle. August 7, 2009. Retrieved on August 8, 2009.
  15. ^ "Harris County Hospital District withdraws bid for Memorial Hermann Southwest." Houston Business Journal. Thursday September 17, 2009. Retrieved on September 25, 2009.
  16. ^ a b "Company Overview of Harris Health System". Bloomberg. March 4, 2019.
  17. ^ "Baytown Health Center." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  18. ^ "Acres Home Health Center 2009-03-29 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  19. ^ "A Proud History of Caring for More Than 45 Years Archived 2012-12-06 at archive.today." Harris County Hospital District. Retrieved on February 9, 2012.
  20. ^ "Casa de Amigos Health Center 2008-09-21 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  21. ^ "El Franco Lee Health Center 2009-05-02 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed April 26, 2009.
  22. ^ a b "Gulfgate Health Center" (). Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  23. ^ "Martin Luther King Health Center 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  24. ^ "Northwest Health Center." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  25. ^ "A Chronology of the Texas Medical Center 2010-06-24 at the Wayback Machine." Texas Medical Center. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  26. ^ "Settegast Health Center." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  27. ^ "Thomas Street Health Center 2008-10-17 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  28. ^ . Harris County Hospital District. May 1999. Archived from the original on 1999-10-09. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  29. ^ "People's Health Center 2004-02-23 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  30. ^ "E. A. "Squatty" Lyons Health Center." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  31. ^ a b "." Houston Chronicle. Monday June 3, 1991. A13.
  32. ^ "Strawberry Health Center 2004-03-05 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  33. ^ "Aldine Health Center 2009-03-29 at the Wayback Machine." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 17, 2008.
  34. ^ a b "A Proud History of Caring for More Than 45 Years." Harris County Hospital District. Retrieved on February 9, 2012.
  35. ^ "." Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 28, 2008.
  36. ^ "Quentin Mease Community Hospital." () Harris County Hospital District. Accessed October 28, 2008.
  37. ^ "Martin Luther King Jr. Health Center." Harris County Hospital District. Retrieved on September 30, 2010.
  38. ^ . Harris County Hospital District. May 1999. Archived from the original on 1999-10-09. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
  39. ^ . Harris County Hospital District. 2011-10-11. Archived from the original on 2011-10-11. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  40. ^ "Harris Health System Consolidates Three Locations". Harris Health System. Retrieved 2021-10-19.
  41. ^ "." Harris County Hospital District. Retrieved on March 6, 2010.
  42. ^ "Harris Health's Administration Building Named after Long-Time Trustee". Harris Health System. 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2021-10-19.

Further reading Edit

  • Harris County Block Book Map: Aldine Community Health Clinic: JPG and PDF - Volume 119, Page 207.

External links Edit

  • Harris Health System
  • Harris County Hospital District Official Website (Archive)
  • County worried over decrease in patient load - Houston Chronicle - March 27, 2008
  • How To Apply For Harris Health Gold Card

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For the hospital in American Samoa see LBJ Hospital American Samoa This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Harris Health System news newspapers books scholar JSTOR May 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Harris Health System previously the Harris County Hospital District HCHD is a governmental entity with taxing authority that owns and operates three hospitals and numerous clinics throughout Harris County Texas United States including the city of Houston The entity s administrative offices are in Bellaire Texas 1 Current logoHarris County Hospital District logo prior to 2012 Harris Health System is an integrated delivery system that provides healthcare services open to all residents of Harris County Texas It is the first accredited healthcare institution in Harris County to be designated as an NCQA Medical Home 2 and one of the largest in the country Contents 1 History 2 Hospitals 3 Clinics 4 Administrative office 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External linksHistory Edit nbsp Former Harris Health System Administration BuildingThe Harris County Hospital District was created by voter referendum on November 20 1965 and was formally designated as a political subdivision with taxing authority on January 1 1966 Its creation is largely attributed to the publication of Jan de Hartog s novel The Hospital which described the horrific conditions of the Jefferson Davis Charity Hospital The new district replaced an existing city county system in which the two governmental bodies shared funding responsibility 3 Quentin Ronald Mease was a founder and chairman of the Harris County Hospital District and chaired the Harris County Hospital Foundation 4 A Hospital District is a governmental entity in Texas established pursuant to the Texas Constitution 5 or the general statutes of Texas and its purpose is to provide medical care to the needy residents of a particular county 6 By 1989 the hospital had exceeded U S federal patient mortality rates for two years in a row Ben Taub and Jefferson Davis were the sole Houston hospitals above their predicted mortality rates Roger Widmeyer the district spokesperson said We are a very unique hospital because of the number of acutely ill patients we receive We think the taxpayers understand that we handle a lot of sick people here A lot of the people we treat don t come to the hospitals until they are very very sick 7 By 1990 when LBJ received an emergency room and Ben Taub received an emergency care facility the district began to assign county residents to each hospital depending on zip code Residents of northern areas in the county including patients treated at Acres Home Settegast Bordersville and Baytown clinics were assigned to LBJ Residents of southern areas including patients at Casa de Amigos Martin Luther King Ripley House Strawberry Road and West End county clinics were assigned to Ben Taub 8 In January 2012 board members of Harris County Hospital District approved a rebranding to Harris Health System 9 The rebranding became effective in promotion of the system starting September 6 10 2012 Hospitals EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed August 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message nbsp Ben Taub General Hospital nbsp Lyndon B Johnson General HospitalThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2009 Learn how and when to remove this template message Its two main hospitals serve approximately one million under insured and uninsured people nearly a quarter of the entire population of Harris County the third most populous county in the United States Harris County includes Houston the fourth largest city in the United States Ben Taub General Hospital is a level I trauma center with 650 licensed beds It is located in the Texas Medical Center the largest medical complex in the world and is staffed by faculty residents and students of Baylor College of Medicine 11 Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital is a 332 bed general hospital with a level 3 trauma center located northeast of Downtown Houston It is staffed by the faculty residents and students of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center citation needed After Jefferson Davis Hospital closed LBJ opened in 1989 12 An outpatient center next to the hospital opened in 2013 13 Quentin Mease Community Hospital has 25 beds for long term physical rehabilitation and 24 beds in its geriatric services program It is staffed by the faculty residents and students of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine citation needed In August 2009 Memorial Hermann Hospital announced possible plans to sell its Southwest Hospital in Greater Sharpstown to the Harris Health System which if purchased would make the hospital its third general hospital 14 The county withdrew its bid in September 2009 15 Clinics Edit nbsp Former Quentin Mease Community Hospital in the Third Ward Houston nbsp Martin Luther King Jr Health Center nbsp Casa de Amigos Health Center nbsp El Franco Lee Health CenterHarris Health System operates 12 Community Health Centers a dental center eight School Based Clinics 13 homeless shelter clinics and four mobile health clinics 16 These clinics offer primary care as well as a variety of specialty care such as psychiatry dentistry obstetrical gynecological podiatry ophthalmology pharmacy psychiatry and counseling laboratory and x ray services HIV AIDS case management and a variety of nutrition health education and social services 16 Thomas Street Health Center was the first freestanding HIV AIDS clinic in the United States and today treats nearly a third of all HIV AIDS patients in Harris County Community based health care centers include Baytown Baytown Health Center 17 Houston Acres Home Health Center 18 The health center opened on May 17 1971 19 Casa de Amigos Health Center 20 El Franco Lee Health Center opened on May 19 2009 21 Gulfgate Health Center opened on September 18 2000 22 Martin Luther King Health Center 23 Northwest Health Center 24 formerly the West End Health Center opened 1974 25 Settegast Health Center 26 Thomas Street Health Center 27 It opened in 1989 and serves AIDS patients 28 Valbona Health Center formerly People s Health Center 29 Humble E A Squatty Lyons Health Center opened 1991 30 31 Pasadena Strawberry Health Center 32 Pediatric and Adolescent Health Center Pasadena Unincorporated areas Aldine Health Center 33 Cypress Health Center Cypress Danny Jackson Health Center Greater Katy Pediatric amp Adolescent Health Center Bear CreekPrior to 1991 the county operated a clinic in the Bordersville area of Houston In 1991 the Lyons Clinic opened and the county closed the Bordersville clinic 31 The county s Ripley clinic closed as a result of the opening of the Gulfgate clinic in 2000 22 The Martin Luther King Health Center first opened on April 28 1972 Quentin Mease opened in 1983 34 At one point the MLK health center was located on the first and third floors of Quentin Mease 35 MLK s standalone facility on Cullen Boulevard was scheduled to open in 2009 and free space at Quentin Mease 36 On May 14 2010 MLK relocated to a site in southern Houston on Swingle Road 34 37 Acres Homes clinic got a 3 5 million expansion that broke ground in 1999 38 As of 2011 update the dental centers take patients of ages 16 and up with patients under that age referred to the City of Houston s dental clinics 39 Administrative office Edit nbsp Harris Health System officesIts current administrative office is the Fournace facility in Bellaire Texas 1 The facility has ten floors of which the district occupies seven The district moved employees from the 2525 Holly Hall 9240 Kirby and 9250 Kirby facilities all in the city of Houston into Fournace 40 In addition to 2525 Holly Hall and 9250 Kirby 2636 S Loop in Houston once housed the Community Health Choice offices 41 In 1992 the district moved into the Holly Hall building which has 110 000 square feet 10 000 m2 of space In 2017 the district named the Holly Hall building after Elvin Franklin Jr 42 See also Edit nbsp Texas portalParkland Health amp Hospital System Dallas County JPS Health Network Tarrant County University Health System Bexar County References Edit a b Fournace Harris Health System Retrieved 2021 10 19 Fournace 4800 Fournace Place Bellaire TX 77401 Harris County Hospital District Receives Prestigious Medical Home Designation Archived from the original on 2014 07 14 Retrieved 2013 03 01 Gonzales J R The Hospital Handbook of Texas Online Texas State Historical Association Retrieved 3 December 2019 Quentin Mease Biography The History Makers Retrieved 3 December 2019 See Tex Const art IX 4 Tex Health amp Safety Code 281 002 Tex Const art IX 4 Tex Health amp Safety Code Ann 281 002 282 049 Perry Earnest L Hospital district exceeds mortality rates Houston Chronicle Thursday December 21 1989 A39 Zuniga Jo Ann and Mitch Whitten Hospitals to divide patients Houston Chronicle Friday June 29 1990 A24 Johnson Laurie 2012 01 27 Changes Ahead for Harris County Hospital District Houston Public Media Retrieved 2019 06 05 The Future Starts Today for Harris Health System Harris Health System Archived from the original on 2014 07 14 Retrieved 2019 06 05 Ben Taub Hospital Retrieved 2023 09 10 LBJ Hospital celebrates 10 years of service Harris County Hospital District May 1999 Archived from the original on 1999 10 09 Retrieved 2021 04 08 Harris Health System dedicates new Outpatient Center Houston Chronicle 2013 10 28 Retrieved 2021 04 09 O Hare Peggy County wants to buy Memorial Hermann SW Houston Chronicle August 7 2009 Retrieved on August 8 2009 Harris County Hospital District withdraws bid for Memorial Hermann Southwest Houston Business Journal Thursday September 17 2009 Retrieved on September 25 2009 a b Company Overview of Harris Health System Bloomberg March 4 2019 Baytown Health Center Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 Acres Home Health Center Archived 2009 03 29 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 A Proud History of Caring for More Than 45 Years Archived 2012 12 06 at archive today Harris County Hospital District Retrieved on February 9 2012 Casa de Amigos Health Center Archived 2008 09 21 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 El Franco Lee Health Center Archived 2009 05 02 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed April 26 2009 a b Gulfgate Health Center Archive Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 Martin Luther King Health Center Archived 2007 08 10 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 Northwest Health Center Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 A Chronology of the Texas Medical Center Archived 2010 06 24 at the Wayback Machine Texas Medical Center Accessed October 17 2008 Settegast Health Center Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 Thomas Street Health Center Archived 2008 10 17 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 Hospital District s HIV AIDS Clinic Celebrates 10th Anniversary Harris County Hospital District May 1999 Archived from the original on 1999 10 09 Retrieved 2021 04 08 People s Health Center Archived 2004 02 23 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 E A Squatty Lyons Health Center Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 a b Dedicated to Squatty Houston Chronicle Monday June 3 1991 A13 Strawberry Health Center Archived 2004 03 05 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 Aldine Health Center Archived 2009 03 29 at the Wayback Machine Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 17 2008 a b A Proud History of Caring for More Than 45 Years Harris County Hospital District Retrieved on February 9 2012 Martin Luther King Health Center Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 28 2008 Quentin Mease Community Hospital Archive Harris County Hospital District Accessed October 28 2008 Martin Luther King Jr Health Center Harris County Hospital District Retrieved on September 30 2010 HCHD makes history in Acres Home Community Harris County Hospital District May 1999 Archived from the original on 1999 10 09 Retrieved 2021 04 08 HCHD Dental Program Harris County Hospital District 2011 10 11 Archived from the original on 2011 10 11 Retrieved 2021 04 06 Harris Health System Consolidates Three Locations Harris Health System Retrieved 2021 10 19 HCHD Directions Harris County Hospital District Retrieved on March 6 2010 Harris Health s Administration Building Named after Long Time Trustee Harris Health System 2017 04 18 Retrieved 2021 10 19 Further reading EditHarris County Block Book Map Aldine Community Health Clinic JPG and PDF Volume 119 Page 207 External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Harris Health System Harris Health System Harris County Hospital District Official Website Archive County worried over decrease in patient load Houston Chronicle March 27 2008 How To Apply For Harris Health Gold Card Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Harris Health System amp oldid 1174719445, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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