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Facts and Figures

Harris Health is a fully integrated healthcare system that cares for all residents of Harris County, Texas. We are the first accredited healthcare institution in Harris County to be designated as a Medical Home and one of the largest in the country. Our system includes:

Harris Health Ben Taub Hospital (Est. 1963)
  • ​402 licensed beds
  • Level I trauma center
  • Comprehensive Stroke Center (DNV) and recipient of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines©- Stroke Gold Plus Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Plus Award
  • Designated Chest Pain Center and a Mission: Lifeline© Gold Plus Receiving Center for STEMI (heart attack) care     
Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Est. 1989)
  • Staffed by physicians from UTHealth and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • 215 licensed beds
  • Level III trauma center
  • Regional center for neonatal intensive care 
Outpatient/Ambulatory Care Services
  • ​Staffed by physicians from Baylor College of Medicine and UTHealth
  • 16 community health centers, including the nation's first free-standing HIV/AIDS treatment center
  • Four large multi-specialty clinics
  • Four same day clinics
  • One free-standing dental center
  • One ambulatory surgical center center
  • Eight homeless shelter clinics and four homeless eligibility service locations
  • Mobile immunization and medical outreach program  
Volume Statistics - FY2023
Cases occupying hospital beds - 41,604
Births - 5,494
Emergency visits - 155,570
Outpatient clinic visits - 1,488,884
Total surgery cases - 20,704

Finances - FY2023
Property Taxes - $822.8 million
Net Patient Service - $753.6 million
Medicaid Supplemental Programs - $719.3 million
Investment and other revenue - $226.2 million
Total Net Revenue: $2.52 billion

Charity Care
Harris Health provided $688.8 million in charity care in Fiscal Year 2023.

Patient Payor Mix
Uninsured – 44.3%
Medicaid and CHIP – 22.6%
Commercial and other funding - 21.7%
Medicare and Medicare managed – 11.4%

Patient Demographics
Hispanic - 52.3%
African American – 22.5%
Caucasian - 17.9%
Asian and other - 7.3%