Health care
BY COMMUNITY IMPACT STAFF
BY RACHEL LELAND
Hospitals
Nonprofit health care clinic for uninsured patients relocates Taylor Barrett is the director of operations at SEVA Clinic, a nonprofit, low-cost clinic that has served uninsured patients in Pearland since 2017. It covers primary care cases and does not pre- scribe controlled substances or pain medication. The clinic is relocating in July to expand its capabilities and services. It will share a location with food bank Christian Helping Hands at 3402 Swensen Road, Pearland. To keep the care low-cost, all medical person- nel at SEVA Clinic are volunteers. Barrett spoke to Community Impact about what the clinic offers to patients in Pearland and what its new facility will bring. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
What does SEVA Clinic provide to the Pearland community? We provide primary care services. ... We have the ability to do EKGs, so we can look for arrhyth- mias. We have the ability to do lab work [at] a very decreased cost. We can do more extensive work here but only a couple of patients at a time. What services will SEVA Clinic offer in the future that it doesn’t currently offer? We will be adding a lot more when we have the new clinic open. We’ll have a medical device and safety device rental program. ... We will have health coaches and nurses [who] will provide education and mentoring, and counseling for healthier lifestyles. ... We’re also going to be pairing up with dietitians and nutritionists to create an entire bundle of culture-based nutrition plans. Why is SEVA Clinic relocating? We have never had enough room. We currently work out of two storage rooms that we converted into clinic rooms. ... It’s to have a bigger space and the ability to standardize and make our processes more efficient.
Level III: neonatal intensive care unit that can care for mothers and infants of all gestational ages with mild to critical illnesses Level IV: advanced NICU that can care for mothers and infants of all gestational ages as well as the most complex, critically ill infants
Levels of care
Pearland
Trauma levels Level I: highest level of care with a full range of specialists and equipment in-house 24/7 Level II: offers specialists on call 24/7 and can transfer to Level I facilities Level III: offers resources for emergency surgery and intensive care but may have to transfer to higher-level facilities for more serious issues Level IV: provides initial evaluation, stabilization and diagnostic capabilities but may have to transfer to higher-level facilities for more serious issues Neonatal intensive care unit levels Level I: newborn nursery that can care for mothers and infants at 35-plus weeks of gestation with routine prenatal problems Level II: specialty care nursery that can care for mothers and infants at 32-plus weeks of gestation with problems to be resolved rapidly
Memorial Hermann Pearland Hospital Trauma level: IV NICU level: N/A Number of beds: 64 Number of physicians: 1,490 (Southeast and Pearland) Number of nurses: 279 • 16100 South Freeway, Pearland • 713-413-5000 HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland Trauma level: IV NICU level: N/A Number of beds: 48 Number of physicians: 476 Number of nurses: 488 New program or procedure: Aquablation—robotic
Houston
Memorial Hermann Southeast Hospital Trauma level: III NICU level: III Number of beds: 295 Number of physicians: 1,490 (Southeast and Pearland) Number of nurses: 709 New program or procedure: Mako robotic orthopedic surgery • 11800 Astoria Blvd., Houston • 281-929-6100
COURTESY TAYLOR BARRETT
What is SEVA doing to train its all-volunteer staff? We have an entire health care leadership program called SEVA Leaders where we have three different pathways between clinical care technicians. We’re about to onboard for that right now. So they get trained to do vital signs, urinalysis, EKG and blood glucose.
procedure for benign prostatic hyperplasia • 11100 Shadow Creek Parkway, Pearland • 713-770-7000 This list is not comprehensive.
SHADOW CREEK 11023 Shadow Creek Pkwy (281) 977-1027
PEARLAND 10555 Pearland Pkwy (713) 987-9205
ALMEDA 11130 Gulf Fwy (713) 910-3941
FRIENDSWOOD 3126 FM 528 (281) 648-5473
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