Houston Healthcare

The Hospitals' primary program activity is the provision of patient care. The Hospitals provided nursing care in the areas of medical, post-surgical, psychiatric, critical care, intermediate care, labor and delivery, post partum, nursery, pediatrics, and wound ostomy care. The utilization data includes 13,189 adult and pediatric admissions, 61,639 patient days, 1,971 births, and 68,921 emergency room visits. The Hospitals also provided 11,804 surgical services to patients which included 2,014 inpatients, 6,599 outpatients, and 3,191 endoscopy patients.

Educare, the community education department of Houston Hospitals provided health fairs, senior care luncheons, blood pressure screenings, and exercise classes. Educare also provided education classes and support groups for the following health issues and topics: alzheimers, arthritis, breast cancer, breastfeeding, cardiac health, childbirth, cooking, diabetes, diet, divorce, hypertension, lupus, multiple sclerosis, pregnancy, siblings, stress management, tobacco cessation, walking, and weight loss.