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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.
The headquarters of the health care system are located in the Memorial Hermann Tower. The headquarters were scheduled to move there from a facility on Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59 (Southwest Freeway) in mid-2010. In 2006 developers stated that the Memorial Hermann Tower would be the tallest building in the I-10 corridor in western Houston.
Ben Taub General Hospital, part of the Harris Health System, Level 1 trauma hospital affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) Houston Methodist Hospital, affiliated with Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medical College; John Sealy Hospital, Level 1 trauma center affiliated with UTMB at Galveston [1] [2]
The health system includes Texas Health Physician's Group and hospitals identified as Texas Health Presbyterian, Texas Health Arlington Memorial, Texas Health Harris Methodist and Texas Health Huguley. Texas Health has 29 hospital locations including acute-care, short-stay, behavioral health, rehabilitation and transitional care facilities.
The El Franco Lee Health Center in Alief, operated by Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District), opened on May 19, 2009. [126] Prior to the opening, the closest facility was the People's Health Center. The district said in a 2006 Houston Chronicle article that it planned to build a health care facility in Alief. [127]
The Texas Medical Center contains 54 medicine-related institutions, with 21 hospitals and eight specialty institutions, eight academic and research institutions, four medical schools, seven nursing schools, three public health organizations, two pharmacy schools and a dental school. [8]
Founded in 1925, it is the primary teaching hospital for McGovern Medical School (formerly The University of Texas Medical School at Houston (UTHealth Medical School)) and the flagship location of 13 hospitals in the Memorial Hermann Healthcare System. It is one of two certified Level I Trauma Centers in the greater Houston area.
Having opened in May 1963, the hospital is owned and operated by the Harris Health System and is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students from Baylor College of Medicine. [1] Ben Taub is a Level I trauma center, one of three in Southeast Texas, the others being nearby Memorial Hermann Hospital and University of Texas Medical Branch in ...