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Media Releases

2010

March

• Don’t Let Alcohol Ruin St. Patrick’s Day and March Madness
• Harris County Hospital District Recruiting Summer Junior Volunteers
• Don’t Lose Sleep Over Daylight Savings Time

February

• Harris County Hospital District’s Troubleshooters Offering $3 Immunizations, $5 Seasonal Flu Shots
• Harris County Hospital District Announces American Nurses Credentialing Center Pathway to Excellence™ Designation
• Don't Let Rodeo Chow Wreck Your Waistline
• Boot-Buying Tips to Keep Your Feet Happy
• Heart on Fire -- for Your Love or Your Love of Food?

January

• Harris County Hospital District's Troubleshooters Offering $3 Immunizations, $5 Seasonal Flu Shots

• Don't Let the Super Bowl Snack Attack Ruin Your Resolution

• HCHD's School of Diagnostic Medical Imaging Accepting Applications

2009

December

• HCHD's Troubleshooters Program Offering $3 Immunizations, $5 Seasonal Flu Shots

• Harris County Hospital District Cancer Program Earns Accreditation

• Stuff the Turkey, Not Yourself

• HCHD Celebrates World AIDS Day and Thomas Street Health Center

• Ben Taub General Hospital Receives National Recognition for Organ Donation Rates

November

• HCHD's Orthopaedic Physical Therapy Residency Program Receives Accreditation

• HCHD's Troubleshooters Offering $3 Immunizations, $5 Seasonal Flu Shots

• HCHD Helps You Say: So Long Salmonella

• Holidays Pose Serious Problems for Compulsive Shoppers

• HCHD Encourages Use of Nasal Spray to Fight H1N1 Flu

• HIV/AIDS Individuals Urged to Not Take H1N1 Nasal Spray

October

• HCHD's Troubleshooters Program Offering $3 Immunizations, $5 Seasonal Flu Shots

• HCHD Offers Halloween Tips

• A Clean Workplace Could Keep You Well this Flu Season

• Know the Difference Between Colds, Flu and H1N1

• HCHD Offers Seasonal Flu Shot to the Public

• HCHD's Troubleshooters Program Offering $3 Immunizations

September

• Arm Your Child with Flu Shots

• Harris County Hospital District Terminates Letter of Intent to Purchase Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital

• HCHD's PM&R Program Receives CARF Accreditation

August

• HCHD's Troubleshooters Offering Free Immunizations

• College Bound "Baby" Leaves Parents with Empty Nest Syndrome

• Harris County Hospital District and Memorial Hermann Announce Proposed Plan for the Purchase of Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital by Harris County Hospital District

• HCHD Receives Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award

• HCHD's School-Based Clinics Offer Free Immunizations

• Back to School Health Tips

July

• HCHD Receives Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award

• Take a Vacation, It's What the Doctor Ordered

• HCHD Receives Two NAPH Safety Net Awards

• Hospital District to Host Free Community Health Fairs

• Beat the Back to School Immunization Rush: Hospital District's Troubleshooters Program Offering Free Immunizations throughout July and August

June

• Tips for a Safe July 4th
• FCC Visits Ben Taub Hospital to Gain Crisis Communication Insight
• HCHD Gets Gold Seal of Approval from Joint Commission

May

• HCHD Hosts Seventh Annual Circle of Survival Trauma Conference
• HCHD Opens New Health Center in Alief
• HCHD Hosts Shattered Dreams at Atascocita High School on May 14

April

• HCHD Takes Action Against Stroke to Kick Off Stroke Awareness Month

• College of Surgeons Re-verifies Ben Taub's Level 1 Trauma Designation

March

• Dr. Atul Varadhachary Joins HCHD Board of Managers

• HCHD Launches 2009 Shattered Dreams at High Schools

• HCHD Rehab Patients Use Rodeo Outing for Therapy

• Jessie L. Tucker III, PhD, Named Administrator of Harris County Hospital District's Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital

• Ben Taub to 'Shatter Dreams' at Klein Collins High School

February

• HCHD's PM&R Staff Recognized at American Board Conference

• Hospital District's Troubleshooters Program Offers $10 Flu Shots and $3 Immunizations

• Friday the 13th - Fear or Phobia?

• Heart on Fire for Your Love or For Your Love of Food?

• HCHD's School of Diagnostic Medical Imaging Accepting Applications

• Hospital District's Troubleshooters Program Offers $10 Flu Shots and $3 Immunizations

January

• HCHD Board Appoints Ken Janda as President and CEO of Community Health Choice, Inc.

• Hospital District's Troubleshooters Program Offers $10 Flu Shots and $3 Immunizations

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