Topic: Memorial Hermann Healthcare System

A 16-month-old boy was dead and his mother's fiance facing charges Monday after investigators said the child suffered severe head trauma while in...

Giffords recovering from cranioplasty in Houston: report

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was recovering on Wednesday from a successful cranioplasty in Houston, a critical step in her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head, according to a report by the Houston Chronicle.Giffords was in Memorial Hermann ...

Aide: Giffords doesn't know details of shootings

0 . U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has not yet been given details of the Jan. 8 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that wounded her and 12 others and killed ...

Shot US lawmaker transferred to rehab center

The US lawmaker shot in the head in an Arizona shooting rampage was moved to a rehabilitation hospital Wednesday, doctors said, continuing her stunning recovery from the horrifying attack.Gabrielle Giffords' condition was upgraded from "serious" to "good" before her transfer from ...

Giffords expected to move to rehabilitation hospital

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Representative Gabrielle Giffords was expected to be moved to a long-term rehabilitation hospital on Wednesday after doctors upgraded her condition from serious to good.Giffords will enter The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research at Memorial Hermann (TIRR), where she will ...

The Least Deadly Hospitals

The following hospitals were designated as among the best hospitals in the country by HealthGrades, a hospital rating company based in Golden, Colo. Their low complication and mortality rates for a variety of procedures place them in the top 5% of hospitals ...

Texas hospital settles charges of boycotting physician-owned hospital

Memorial Hermann, Houston's largest hospital system, allegedly used its leverage to punish -- with threats of contract terminations or rate increases -- insurers that signed on with what used to be Town & Country Hospital. Memorial Hermann denied any wrongdoing but agreed to pay ...
Authorities in Texas say an 11-year-old girl was run over by a train that severed one of her legs and seriously injured the other.Officers said Gisselle Marroquin was playing with friends on railroad tracks behind their homes east of Houston on ...

All in the Family

Nobody wants to be there. It is the waiting room of the Neuro Trauma Intensive Care Unit (NTICU) at Memorial Hermann Hospital, one of only two Level I trauma hospitals in . Then she saw another mother in the waiting room, whose daughter ...