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29-472: Harris Health System is an integrated delivery system that provides healthcare services open to all residents of Harris County , Texas . It is the first accredited healthcare institution in Harris County to be designated as an NCQA Medical Home and one of the largest in the country. The Harris County Hospital District was created by voter referendum on November 20, 1965 and was formally designated as

58-412: A federal court, arguing that the city could not legally annex areas if it did not provide certain services to some of its existing areas, including Bordersville. In 1998 Phillips advocated for the annexation of Humble Heights, an area around Carver Avenue, Dunbar Avenue, and Granger Street, into Houston; if the residents are annexed they would use the city sewer system instead of septic tanks . As of 2008

87-799: A health clinic in Bordersville. In 1991 the E. A. Squatty Lyons Health Center opened in Humble , replacing the Bordersville clinic. The Harris Health System (formerly Harris County Hospital District) designated the Lyons clinic for the ZIP code 77338. The designated public hospital is Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in northeast Houston. Bordersville is located in District 141 of the Texas House of Representatives . As of 2008, Senfronia Thompson represents

116-569: A political subdivision with taxing authority on January 1, 1966. Its creation is largely attributed to the publication of Jan de Hartog 's novel The Hospital , which described the horrific conditions of the Jefferson Davis Charity Hospital . The new district replaced an existing city-county system in which the two governmental bodies shared funding responsibility. Quentin Ronald Mease was a founder and chairman of

145-497: A rebranding to Harris Health System. The rebranding became effective in promotion of the system starting September 6, 2012. Its two main hospitals serve approximately one million under-insured and uninsured people, nearly a quarter of the entire population of Harris County, the third most-populous county in the United States. Harris County includes Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States. Ben Taub General Hospital

174-568: A row; Ben Taub and Jefferson Davis were the sole Houston hospitals above their predicted mortality rates. Roger Widmeyer, the district spokesperson, said "We are a very unique hospital because of the number of acutely ill patients we receive. We think the taxpayers understand that we handle a lot of sick people here. A lot of the people we treat don't come to the hospitals until they are very, very sick." By 1990, when Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital (LBJ) received an emergency room and Ben Taub General Hospital received an emergency care facility,

203-499: A senior citizen center, literacy classes, youth and elderly employment, and summer recreational activities. In 1975, Bordersville had 550 residents. Residents earned annual incomes averaging to between $ 2,500 and $ 3,500 United States dollars . Fire trucks of the Houston Fire Department delivered water for bathing, cooking, and drinking on a twice-weekly basis during 1975. Water service lines opened in 1981. In

232-610: A site in southern Houston, on Swingle Road. Acres Homes clinic got a $ 3.5 million expansion that broke ground in 1999. As of 2011 the dental centers take patients of ages 16 and up with patients under that age referred to the City of Houston's dental clinics. Its current administrative office is the Fournace facility in Bellaire, Texas . The facility has ten floors, of which the district occupies seven. The district moved employees from

261-537: A variety of nutrition, health education and social services. Thomas Street Health Center was the first freestanding HIV/AIDS clinic in the United States, and today treats nearly a third of all HIV/AIDS patients in Harris County. Community-based health care centers include: Prior to 1991 the county operated a clinic in the Bordersville area of Houston . In 1991 the Lyons Clinic opened and the county closed

290-703: Is a level I trauma center with 650 licensed beds. It is located in the Texas Medical Center , the largest medical complex in the world, and is staffed by faculty, residents , and students of Baylor College of Medicine . Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital is a 332-bed general hospital with a level 3 trauma center located northeast of Downtown Houston . It is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center . After Jefferson Davis Hospital closed, LBJ opened in 1989. An outpatient center next to

319-497: The Aldine Independent School District , was five miles from the closest public schools. Bordersville was around thirty-five miles from Ben Taub Hospital , grocery stores, and libraries. Borders closed the mill in 1941. During the same year, he rented and sold the land within Bordersville to its residents. Borders died in 1963. Most Bordersville citizens did not own their land. No individuals forced

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348-605: The City of Houston and the rest in an unincorporated area . Bordersville was established in an unincorporated section of Harris County, Texas in 1927 after the closing of a sawmill in the nearby city of Humble . African-Americans formerly employed at the mill were forced to leave. A man named Edgar Borders opened a mill close in proximity to the closed sawmill and employed some of the former Humble sawmill workers. Borders created wooden shacks to house workers. In 1940, Bordersville contained 100 residents. Bordersville, served by

377-500: The United States Department of Commerce 's Economic Development Administration . Architect John Zemanek designed the facility, consisting of nine low-rise buildings. The Three H Service Center received funding from Houston and federal agencies and local churches. With a volunteer staff, the center established various services, including day care , tutoring, a health clinic, public bathing facilities for homeless ,

406-617: The 1980s, the Three H Service Center collaborated in an organization of funding to install sink, bathtub, and toilet facilities in Bordersville residences. In 1985, 700 citizens lived in 120 residences in Bordersville. By 1985 cooking and heating fires had ruined many of the original Bordersville homes. Maps in the 1980s revealed four churches in the Bordersville area. During the same year, most residents cooked food on wood stoves and with outdoor appliances. The community lacked public transportation access; this increased unemployment. Social Security

435-981: The 2525 Holly Hall, 9240 Kirby and 9250 Kirby facilities, all in the city of Houston, into Fournace. In addition to 2525 Holly Hall and 9250 Kirby, 2636 S. Loop in Houston once housed the Community Health Choice offices. In 1992 the district moved into the Holly Hall building, which has 110,000 square feet (10,000 m) of space. In 2017 the district named the Holly Hall building after Elvin Franklin Jr. See also: List of companies in Houston See: List of colleges and universities in Houston [REDACTED] Category [REDACTED] Texas portal Integrated delivery system Too Many Requests If you report this error to

464-693: The Bordersville clinic. The county's Ripley clinic closed as a result of the opening of the Gulfgate clinic in 2000. The Martin Luther King Health Center first opened on April 28, 1972. Quentin Mease opened in 1983. At one point, the MLK health center was located on the first and third floors of Quentin Mease. MLK's standalone facility on Cullen Boulevard was scheduled to open in 2009 and free space at Quentin Mease. On May 14, 2010, MLK relocated to

493-565: The Bordersville residents out of their homes. Throughout the 1960s, A. W. Jones and other residents founded a civic club which became the Bordersville Neighborhood Council. Many citizens became members of the Houston Junior Chambers of Commerce. Some citizens created a water well, and others painted area houses. The City of Houston annexed about 80% of Bordersville in 1965. During that year,

522-706: The Harris County Hospital District and chaired the Harris County Hospital Foundation. A Hospital District is a governmental entity in Texas , established pursuant to the Texas Constitution or the general statutes of Texas, and its purpose is to provide medical care to the needy residents of a particular county. By 1989, the hospital had exceeded U.S. federal patient mortality rates for two years in

551-692: The Harris Health System, which, if purchased would make the hospital its third general hospital. The county withdrew its bid in September 2009. Harris Health System operates 12 Community Health Centers, a dental center, eight School-Based Clinics, 13 homeless shelter clinics and four mobile health clinics. These clinics offer primary care as well as a variety of specialty care such as psychiatry, dentistry, obstetrical/gynecological, podiatry, ophthalmology, pharmacy, psychiatry and counseling, laboratory and x-ray services, HIV/AIDS case management, and

580-542: The Houston section of Bordersville. As of 2008 Jarvis Johnson represents the district. Bordersville is within Harris County Precinct 4. As of 2008 Jerry Eversole heads the precinct. The unincorporated part of Bordersville is served by Harris County Sheriff's Office District II Patrol, headquartered from the Humble Substation at 7900 Will Clayton Parkway in Humble . The county operated

609-642: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 924638505 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:32:36 GMT Bordersville, Houston, Texas Bordersville is a predominantly African American community on Farm to Market Road 1960 in northeast Harris County , Texas , United States. The community, located less than one half-mile from George Bush Intercontinental Airport , has about 80% of its territory in

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638-413: The annexation plan of 1965 and that it did not intentionally exclude any part of Bordersville. The city of Houston stated that Bordersville was "the worst pocket of poverty in the city." The Three H Service Center, referring to Houston, Humble, and Harris County, opened in 1974. The center, serving people living within a twenty-mile radius, opened partly due to a $ 196,000 United States dollar grant from

667-526: The area remains unincorporated. A Lone Star College–Kingwood presentation about Bordersville states that the community "may possibly disappear as commercial development claims much of the land." Bordersville is served by the Houston Police Department 's Northeast Patrol Division, with headquarters at 8301 Ley Road. The Houston Fire Department serves the Houston portion and the unincorporated portion. City Council District B covers

696-501: The basic housing and the lack of paved streets, running water, and sewers convinced some Houstonians that Bordersville had the most severe poverty in the city limits. Residents paid city taxes and did not receive city utilities. Jerry Wood, executive assistant in the Planning and Development Department of the City of Houston, said in a 1998 Houston Chronicle article that the city followed easily tracked survey lines when it adopted

725-546: The district began to assign county residents to each hospital depending on zip code. Residents of northern areas in the county, including patients treated at Acres Home, Settegast, Bordersville and Baytown clinics were assigned to LBJ. Residents of southern areas, including patients at Casa de Amigos, Martin Luther King, Ripley House, Strawberry Road, and West End county clinics were assigned to Ben Taub. In January 2012, board members of Harris County Hospital District approved

754-1052: The district. Bordersville is within District 15 of the Texas Senate ; as of 2008 John Whitmire represents the district. The community is within Texas's 18th congressional district . As of 2008 the representative is Sheila Jackson-Lee . Residents are served by the Aldine Independent School District and the Lone Star College System (formerly the North Harris Montgomery Community College District). Residents are zoned to schools outside of Bordersville in unincorporated areas , including Jones EC/PK School for early childhood education and Pre-Kindergarten, A. W. Jones Elementary School for Pre-Kindergarten through 5th Grade, Townsen Middle School in Humble for grades 6–8, and Nimitz High School and Nimitz Ninth Grade School for grades 9 through 12. Jones Elementary

783-585: The hospital opened in 2013. Quentin Mease Community Hospital has 25 beds for long-term physical rehabilitation and 24 beds in its geriatric services program. It is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students of The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine . In August 2009 Memorial Hermann Hospital announced possible plans to sell its Southwest Hospital in Greater Sharpstown to

812-420: Was dedicated on Sunday November 2, 2008. Prior to the opening of Jones, De Santiago EC/PK & Head Start Center and Magrill Elementary School served Bordersville. Parker Intermediate School formerly served Bordersville for grades 5 and 6, and Teague Middle School formerly served Bordersville for grades 7–8. Lone Star College System (formerly the North Harris Montgomery Community College District) serves

841-412: Was the main source of income for the community, which had a disproportionate population of very young and very elderly residents. In 1985 some residents still used outhouses and some residents did not have bathtubs, sinks, and toilets in their residences. In 1996 Thomas Phillips, a retired longshoreman and Bordersville resident, joined with representatives of Kingwood and sued the City of Houston in

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