Harris Health System offers specialty and acute care at two hospitals. Ben Taub Hospital is located in the Texas Medical Center and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital is situated in the northeast quadrant of Houston.
Ben Taub Hospital is home to the Ginni and Richard Mithoff Trauma Center, a world renown Level I trauma center. Ben Taub Hospital is a 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. Ben Taub is also a designated Chest Pain Center and a Mission: Lifeline© Gold Plus Receiving Center for STEMI (heart attack) care. The hospital is staffed by physician faculty and residents of
Baylor College of Medicine.
Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital is known for its neonatal intensive care services and Level III trauma center, and serves as one of the few full-service hospitals in the northeast area of the city. Physician faculty and residents with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) oversee the provision of medical care to patients at LBJ Hospital.