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…
Healthcare Information Security Professionals, we need your valuable feedback for a nation-wide effort to improve today’s Cyber Threat Information Sharing and what it should look like in the future. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has partnered with the Harris Health System in a collaborative planning grant to better understand the gaps in existing Cyber Threat Information Sharing systems, communities, and practices. We also wish to get your input into designing the next generation of what…
Texas Med Run Harris County Hospital District Foundation (HCHD Foundation) announces the 14th Annual Texas Med Run 5K and 10K Run to be held on February 6, 2016. Funds raised from this event will support a critical need in our community — providing immunizations through Harris Health System’s Troubleshooters Mobile Immunization Program. Immunizations are the key to preventing the spread of disease through the general population. It benefits the people who receive them, the vulnerable,…
Cancer care treatment needs to be regular and consistent in order to do the job of killing the cancer. Many cancer care patients come to Smith Clinic for Radiation therapy and Chemotherapy. If the patient is from LBJ, then they must take several methods of public transportation to get to Smith Clinic – such as public bus system, Harris Health inter campus bus and taxi services. This is an exhausting process if you are weakened…
Harris Health System is listed among the Top Houston Workplaces for 2015 by the Houston Chronicle, a distinction shared by only three other healthcare providers in the large category of employers. Harris Health is listed among large companies with 500 or more employees. This recognition is a high honor because it comes directly from feedback provided by employees in a survey conducted by Workplace Dynamics on behalf of the Chronicle. Our staff is clearly dedicated…
Know Someone Who is Uninsured? Refer Friends and Family to the Marketplace Know Someone Who is Uninsured? Refer Friends and Family to the Marketplace Thursday, November 5, 2015 Open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace began Nov. 1, 2015 and runs through Jan. 31, 2016. Through the Marketplace, individuals can search and select healthcare coverage. The best option to search and select an appropriate healthcare plan is through the Marketplace Web site www.healthcare.gov. The site…
Give a Heart The Harris County Hospital District Foundation’s Give a Heart campaign is now in full swing. Buy a raffle ticket and you’ll be entered to win a Mini Cooper convertible from Momentum MINI. The Give a Heart campaign is a year-long effort to increase awareness and support of the TroubleShooters Immunization Program. The drawing will take place on December 3, 2015 in celebration of Giving Tuesday. Buy a raffle ticket and help us…
HHS taps healthcare provider for national cyber information-sharing effort October 07, 2015 | Christopher J Castelli The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a one-year, $150,000 planning grant to a public healthcare provider in Texas to improve the sharing of cyber-threat information in the healthcare and public health sector. The grant was awarded last week to the Harris County Hospital District, which is located in and around Houston, TX, HHS official Steve Curren…