Year: 2014

Lester and Sue Smith and the Harris County Hospital District Foundation hosted its’ first cocktail reception on May 22, 2014 at the lovely home of the Smiths.  Proceeds from the event support Harris Health Nurses by advancing their professional, management and leader­ship talents through education, training, research efforts, and skills development programs. More than 80 representatives from the business community, Harris Health and HCHD Foundation Board members, philanthropists, supporters, and staff attended this successful event….

Summer was a busy time for the Troubleshooting for Health, our mobile outreach immunization program. In order to cover the demand for their services, the team works six days a week during the month of August; they go from Cleveland-Ripley NCI to Aldine WIC office to Greenspoint Mall preventing potentially life-altering childhood deceases. The Harris Health System mobile immunization program offers free vaccination services for children two months to 18 years of age. “Since students…

A new program year has begun for the HCHDF Children’s Health Fund; 5 nonprofit programs and 3 County programs received grants for program year 2014-2015. Grant recipients gathered last month at the Harris Health System Smith Clinic to receive the awards from Mrs. Laura Dale, HCHDF Foundation Board President, and Dr. Jose Garcia, Harris Health System Chief of Pediatrics at LBJ Hospital and UTMB faculty, representing the Children’s Health Advisory Committee in charge of evaluating…

Harris Health Nurses are supported by each other. Harris Health System and HCHD Foundation encourage nurses to pursue higher education to become Nursing Leaders. Full-time employees currently working in unlicensed nursing positions OR licensed vocational nurses who are seeking a BSN receive up to a maximum of one (1) work-school hour of class they are enrolled in, up to 16 hours per week. Full-time employees currently working in licensed professional nursing positions (RNs) who are…

Shopping online with AmazonSmile is identical to the experience you get on Amazon.com with the added benefit that 0.5% of the purchase price, from eligible purchases, will be donated by the AmazonSmile Foundation to the charity of your choice. HCHD Foundation can now be designated to receive your donations on AmazonSmile. The donation amounts generated by your purchases are combined with donation amounts from all other customers, who selected HCHD Foundation, and sent each quarter…

Our Foundation said goodbye to a prominent and great community leader recently, Mr. H. Ben Taub, great nephew of Ben Taub, namesake of Ben Taub Hospital, which is part of the Harris Health System. H. Ben Taub was a sincere, caring and private gentleman and was an integral part of Harris County Hospital District Foundation, not only as our past president, but also in all of the ways he contributed to the betterment of our…