Congratulations are in order for the 2016-2017 Awardees of the Harris County Hospital District Foundation Children’s Health Fund!!! This year nine different organizations were funded for a total of $388,125 to launch pilot programs that would benefit children of Harris County. Three were returning organizations hoping to stabilize their programs and continue moving forward with what was implemented with the seed money provided to them. The others were looking for a chance with hope…
The Harris Health System delivers approximately 7,000 babies annually. Many of these newborns are born to mothers who are often uninsured or underinsured. For these women, providing for a newborn isn’t a given. There are no baby showers, no boxes of newborn diapers, or even a crib waiting at their home or shelter. Family support is sometimes limited or non-existent. The New Beginnings program formally began in 2008 when Woodlands resident Kay Bollinger answered a…
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…