said it has completed the construction of a rehabilitation hospital in Texas.
The Birmingham-based general contractor recently completed the 64,000-square-foot Reliant Rehabilitation Hospital of North Houston, said a news release.
The three-story building includes 40 private rehabilitation rooms and 20 private skilled nursing rooms to serve patients in North Harris and Montgomery counties in Texas.
M.J. Harris said it encountered several obstacles Read the rest of this entry »

If you or someone you love had one of the 26 million colonoscopies performed last year, the recent news from Canada had to be disconcerting. A study of 10,000 patients found that the procedure, considered the gold standard for detecting colorectal cancer, just isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
Rather than helping reduce the risk of death by 90 percent, as once thought, the colonoscopy’s success rate was closer to 60 percent, the study found.
But Read the rest of this entry »

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth has renewed its credentials as a Level 2 trauma center equipped to treat victims of auto wrecks, gunshots and other serious injuries.
Harris Fort Worth, which first won the Level 2 designation in 1986, struggled with trauma care for several months last year when a shortage of neurosurgeons forced the hospital to turn away some emergency patients with brain and spine injuries.
At the time, ambulance Read the rest of this entry »

UK’s Ramon Harris has been released from a Tuscaloosa hospital and is returning to Lexington on the team’s charter plane.
Harris fainted outside UK’s locker room before the second half of the game against Alabama. He regained consciousness quickly, but was taken by ambulance to DCH Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, where he was alert while being checked out.
All test of his vitals were good and Harris was released at 5:00 central time. He’ll visit Read the rest of this entry »

Harris County M.E. counting 9 Ike deaths
The Harris County Medical Examiner says the deaths of at least six more people are being blamed on Hurricane Ike, bringing the total handled by the coroner’s office to at least nine.
The total includes five attributed to carbon monoxide poisoning caused by improper use of gasoline-powered portable generators. Two others have died in fires where evidence shows candles were in use because the power was out. Read the rest of this entry »

UK's Ramon Harris has been released from a Tuscaloosa hospital and is returning to Lexington on the team's charter plane.
Harris fainted outside UK's locker room before the second half of the game against Alabama.  He regained consciousness quickly, but was taken by ambulance to DCH Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, where he was alert while being checked out.
All test of his vitals were good and Harris was released at 5:00 central Read the rest of this entry »

Kentucky Guard Harris Collapses At Halftime, Later Released From Hospital
January 25, 2009 9:03 a.m. EST
Tuscaloosa, AL (AHN) – Kentucky guard Ramon Harris was released from the hospital and traveled home with the team after collapsing at halftime outside the Wildcats locker room during Saturday night’s game vs. Alabama.
Wildcats coach Billy Gillispie was concerned enough that he stayed with Harris even as second half play continued.
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Prior to joining Vigilant, Mr. Harris served as Senior Vice President
and Chief Financial Officer of Associated Press, the world’s
largest news organization. Past experience also includes serving as
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Remote Management
Systems, Inc. Previous positions span nearly 20 years in top posts with
AOL Time Warner Inc., including Chief Financial Officer of Time Warner Read the rest of this entry »

An estimated 1.1 million people living in Harris County in 2005, or 32 percent of the county’s population of 3.6 million, had no health care coverage, according to figures released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The estimates at the county level are the most extensive ever published, according to the bureau, which looked at people with and without health insurance across gender, age, income and race.
In the 10-county area surrounding Read the rest of this entry »