A county group will be adding staff and grant writers in hopes of bringing in more money to help solve some of the area's thorniest public health issues, including overcrowding at emergency rooms.

In Houston and Harris County, the cornerstone of public and community health care is provided by Harris Health System, established by the State of Texas in 1965 to provide health care for those ...

Harris County Hospital District in Houston, Texas, has changed its name to Harris Health System, effective yesterday. The new name is intended to better represent the system as one of the largest ...

Harris County's health-care system for the poor Thursday named George Masi, a veteran administrator with a military background, to lead it into the era of health-care reform. The Harris Health ...

Harris Health System dedicated its Harris Health Outpatient Center on Oct. 10, a facility built to reduce patient wait times and improve access to non-hospital specialty services like hematology ...

Harris County had been yellow under the old system before switching to the new system on Thursday, a Harris County Public Health spokesman said.

The health agency exclusively serving the Harris County Jail explains to 13 Investigates about the changes made inside the detention facility after multiple inmate deaths.

The Harris County health system warned patients and visitors that hospital visitation and patient information have been suspended at Ben Taub and Lyndon B. Johnson hospitals. Dialysis services ...

Harris County Commissioners Court voted Tuesday to move its Holistic Assistance Response Teams program in house, to be run by the county health department when its contract with an outside vendor ...

Judge Hidalgo and public health officials held a news conference Monday to discuss the possible impact on the health care system, as well as on other county districts, if the county does not make ...

The public health care system in Texas' biggest county is seeking $2.5 billion of bond authorization to address critical capacity problems at its two hospitals, which serve a fast-growing population.

Harris Health System is preparing to break ground on a $1 billion effort to build a new Level 1-capable hospital that will eventually replace Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in northeast Houston.