Harris Health System is planning a major expansion of Ben Taub Hospital by acquiring nearly nine acres of Hermann Park, located just across the street, to build a new trauma center tower.

Ben Taub Hospital has been re-verified as a Level I trauma center, one of two in Harris County. It provides essential trauma care and trains future healthcare professionals in partnership with Baylor College of Medicine. Upcoming events include a trauma conference on May 21 and a survivor celebration on May 30.

Doctors are hoping a clinical trial at Harris Health Ben Taub will prove the treatment works and it’s worth getting pharmaceutical companies to help cover the cost for underserved patients

Gov. Greg Abbott wants to know how much hospitals spend caring for undocumented immigrants. Hospitals should not deny care based on how patients respond.

A week after Houston dealt with major power outages, the city was forced to work around a worldwide computer outage for several hours Friday morning.

Monday morning, after Hurricane Beryl hit Texas’ coast, a Pasadena woman – who does not want to be identified – like millions lost power. She was also running out of oxygen in her tanks.

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee announced that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality approved a permit for a concrete crushing facility to be built near LBJ Hospital. The action has prompted legal action from county officials.

Harris County Attorney Christian D. Menefee will join elected officials to make remarks regarding an application for a company to construct a rock and concrete crushing facility next to Harris Health’s Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) Hospital, which is a 215 licensed-bed acute care facility providing full medical services.

The Houston Police Department released several tips to follow in a video on gun safety around children.

Harris Health is hosting an event on Wednesday morning in an effort to promote firearm safety.

Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital will give away 2,000 gun locks to patients, visitors and the public to encourage firearm safety.

If you've gotten a security notice in the mail recently you are not alone. Two different hospital system groups in our area are warning patients about a cybersecurity hack where confidential patient information was leaked.

June is Gun Violence Awareness month and data from the State Comptroller’s Office shows Texas spends tens of millions of dollars helping victims of this crime. However, data from the Harris Health system shows accidental shootings also have a heavy financial impact.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Office and Harris Health have provided the state an action plan after the Texas Jail Standards Commission found fault with how an inmate was handled inside a downtown Houston jail facility.

There are a few factors that make us vulnerable to a bad flu season, and the main reason could be that people aren’t wearing masks like they did this time last year.

Harris County commissioners on Tuesday approved a $30 million dollar COVID-19 initiative to bring out-of-state nurses in to help overloaded hospitals in the county due to the COVID surge.

With multiple hospitals in the Houston area dealing with staffing issues, the Harris Health System received some much-needed help on Thursday.

HOUSTON – Harris County health officials scrambled Monday to administer 8,430 doses of the coronavirus vaccine after a power outage caused some of the vials to thaw. That led to 8,430 doses of the Moderna vaccine to thaw. County officials contacted Moderna and were given guidance from the vaccine-maker that the remaining doses could be refrigerated and used later. Houston Methodist’s statementIn a statement, Houston Methodist officials said they had received 1,000 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from the batch of thawed shots. Ad“We didn’t waste a drop,” said Robert Schwartz, executive vice president of Houston Methodist Hospital.

HOUSTON – A big congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Mattox, the chief of staff at Ben Taub General Hospital, who announced he will be retiring from his position there soon. This vision ultimately shaped what Ben Taub is today. During a 2018 interview, Dr. Mattox explained the hospital’s history of training military surgeons, a legacy that lives on today. “They would take their cellphone, put it into the wound and say ‘what do I do with this kind of injury?’” Dr. Mattox explained. “In the last five years, we’ve been the top three... of all the trauma centers in the United States!” Dr. Mattox said.

She said residents lived in fear of violence from the home’s owner and other managers. Cynthia Jackson, 60, said she had nowhere else to go in August 2019, after she was released from Ben Taub Hospital’s psychiatric ward. “The caseworker (at Ben Taub) told me that they were going to call the group home,” she said. Jackson said many of the residents at the group homes where she lived between August 2019 and August 2020 came from Ben Taub Hospital. If they had an income and Ben Taub would send them there, he would say 'put 'em somewhere,” Jackson said.