Officials with the Harris Health System—a governmental body in Harris County that provides health care services via three hospitals and a collection of outpatient clinics—will pitch a $2.5 billion bond proposal to Harris County commissioners at a June 6 meeting.
The proposal is needed to keep up with demand for health care services in Harris County as the population grows, a process that would entail building a new Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, among other plans, if the bond passes, Community Impact reports.
Harris Health owns and operates the LBJ Hospital in northeast Houston as well as the Ben Taub Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. It also operates 17 community-based clinics, a free-standing dental center, a chronic dialysis center and three outpatient specialty clinics. Although the system is mandated by law to provide health care services to the uninsured and underinsured, Dr. Esmaeil Porsa, president and CEO of Harris Health System, said services are provided to the entire Harris County community, including at a Level I trauma center at Ben Taub and a Level III trauma center at LBJ. Read more.
