2023 ANNUAL COMMUNITY GUIDE
Magnolia emergency care clinic aiming for rst quarter opening
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New maternal mortality report highlights disparities, gaps in Texas
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have six beds with the potential to expand, Glazer said. The clinic will be open 24/7. “It will have full capabilities, which means, like any ER, it’s going to have CT, X-ray [and] an on-site lab,” she said. “All of our rooms are equipped like our [emergency clinics] and [emergency departments], so any medical emergency that you’re
Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital’s emergency care clinic in Magnolia will open by the end of the rst quarter of 2023, Serenity Glazer, director of emergency services at Houston Methodist Willowbrook, said in a Jan. 4 interview. The clinic, located in the Magnolia Landmark building o FM 1488, will
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In 2019, at least 118 Texas women died while pregnant or within one year after childbirth, leaving over 180 children without mothers. Fifty-two, or nearly half, of these deaths were caused by pregnancy- related complications. But 90% of pregnancy-related deaths that occurred in 2019 were preventable, according to a new Dec. 15 report from the Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee. The committee shared 11 recommendations, led by a push to expand access to comprehensive health services during and one year after pregnancy. The report will be available to lawmakers during the 88th Texas Legislature.
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Houston Methodist Willowbrook to expand Tomball primary care clinic
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strong presence,” Cole said. With the expansion, the clinic will grow from around 6,000 square feet to nearly 14,500 square feet, and full-time orthopedics and sports medicine specialists will be added alongside rotating specialists in elds, such as cardiology, oncology and endocrinology. Imaging services, such as X-rays and mammography, will also be added, Cole said.
The expansion of Houston Meth- odist Willowbrook Hospital’s primary care clinic located o FM 2920 is set to be complete by this summer, Andrew Cole, a regional adminis- trator with the Houston Methodist physician organization, said in a Jan. 6 interview. “We have had a few specialists rotate out there but really not a
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pregnant or within one year after childbirth in 2019.
“We just want to make it easier for the community [and] get the physi- cians that they can trust from us out closer to them,” Cole said.
SOURCE: TEXAS MATERNAL MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY REVIEW COMMITTEE COMMUNITY IMPACT
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