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The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), the most comprehensive survey of the health and nutritional status of the U.S. population, is coming once again to Houston/Harris County, starting January 7, 2022.
Work is officially underway on a new Houston Health Department facility to better serve the Sunnyside community, a focus of Mayor Sylvester Turner’s Houston Complete Communities Initiative.
Project Firstline offers free CDC infection control training for healthcare workers
The Houston Health Department launched today online registration allowing Houstonians at the highest risk of coronavirus disease to schedule appointments to receive free COVID-19 vaccinations. A Spanish version is anticipated to launch later in the day.
Medicare beneficiaries reviewing their 2021 health and prescription drug plan options can get free help from benefits counselors with the Harris County Area Agency on Aging, a division of the Houston Health Department.
Hundreds more Houston homes will be made lead safe thanks to a new grant awarded to the Houston Health Department. The $9.7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is the largest the federal agency has ever awarded to a local health department for home lead-based paint hazard reduction.
Medicare beneficiaries reviewing their 2020 health and prescription drug plan options can get free help from benefits counselors with the Harris County Area Agency on Aging (AAA), a division of the Houston Health Department.
Mayor Sylvester Turner and the Houston Health Department will celebrate the grand re-opening of the newly renovated J. W. Peavy Senior Center on Thursday, September 12 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
For the 30th year, the Harris County Area Agency on Aging, a division of the Houston Health Department, will deliver thousands of Thanksgiving meals to homebound older adults through its Houston Meals for the Elderly (HoME) project.
Medicare beneficiaries now reviewing their 2019 health and prescription drug plan options can get free help from benefits counselors with the Harris County Area Agency on Aging (AAA), a division of the Houston Health Department.