Month: September 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…