Houston

==Infrastructure==

===Healthcare===
{{See also|List of hospitals in Houston|List of hospitals in Texas|Texas Medical Center}}
[[File:UTMDA1.JPG|thumb|right|[[MD Anderson Cancer Center]]]]
Houston is the seat of the Texas Medical Center, which is the largest medical center in the world,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.newsweek.com/texas-medical-center-largest-medical-complex-world-reaches-98-percent-icu-capacity-1526180 | title=Texas Medical Center, largest medical complex in the world, reaches 98 percent ICU capacity | website=[[Newsweek]] | date=August 19, 2020 }}</ref> and which describes itself as containing the world's largest concentration of research and healthcare institutions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Texas Medical Center – Largest Medical Center (Video HD (English)) |work=Texas Medical Center |access-date=March 28, 2009 |url=http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/GetToKnow/TMCVideo/Largest+Medical+Center+Video+%28HD-English%29.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100623134855/http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/GetToKnow/TMCVideo/Largest%2BMedical%2BCenter%2BVideo%2B%28HD-English%29.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 23, 2010}}</ref> All 49 member institutions of the Texas Medical Center are non-profit organizations. They provide patient and preventive care, research, education, and local, national, and international community well-being. Employing more than 73,600 people, institutions at the medical center include 13 hospitals and two specialty institutions, two medical schools, four nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and virtually all health-related careers. It is where one of the first—and still the largest—air emergency service, [[Memorial Hermann Life Flight|Life Flight]], was created, and an inter-institutional transplant program was developed.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}} Around 2007, more heart surgeries were performed at the Texas Medical Center than anywhere else in the world.<ref>{{cite web |title=Texas Medical Center |website=Visithoustontexas.com |url=http://www.visithoustontexas.com/media/statistics/Houston_Stats_Texas_Medical_Center |access-date=February 6, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208100707/http://www.visithoustontexas.com/media/statistics/Houston_Stats_Texas_Medical_Center |archive-date=February 8, 2007}}</ref>

Some of the academic and research health institutions at the center include [[University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center|MD Anderson Cancer Center]], [[Baylor College of Medicine]], [[University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston|UT Health Science Center]], [[Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center|Memorial Hermann Hospital]], [[Houston Methodist Hospital]], [[Texas Children's Hospital]], and [[University of Houston College of Pharmacy]].

The [[Menninger Clinic]], a psychiatric treatment center, is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and the Houston Methodist Hospital System.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quick Facts About The Menninger Clinic |work=menningerclinic.com, The Menninger Clinic |access-date=March 27, 2009 |url=http://www.menningerclinic.com/about/facts.htm}}</ref> With hospital locations nationwide and headquarters in Houston, the Triumph Healthcare hospital system was the third largest long term acute care provider nationally in 2005.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ta.com/news/news_detail.asp?id=102 |title=TA Associates – News |publisher=Ta.com |date=September 1, 2005 |access-date=November 4, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011022123/http://ta.com/news/news_detail.asp?id=102 |archive-date=October 11, 2011}}</ref>

[[Harris Health System]] (formerly Harris County Hospital District), the hospital district for Harris County, operates public hospitals ([[Ben Taub General Hospital]] and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital) and public clinics. The City of Houston Health Department also operates four clinics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://houstontx.gov/health/HealthCenters/index.html|title=Health Centers|publisher=City of Houston|access-date=April 9, 2021}}</ref> {{As of|2011}} the dental centers of Harris Health System take patients of ages 16 and up with patients under that age referred to the City of Houston's dental clinics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hchdonline.com/about/facilities/dental.htm|title=HCHD Dental Program|publisher=Harris County Hospital District|date=October 11, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011233437/http://www.hchdonline.com/about/facilities/dental.htm|access-date=April 6, 2021|archive-date=October 11, 2011}}</ref> Montgomery County Hospital District (MCHD) serves as the hospital district for Houstonians living in Montgomery County. Fort Bend County, in which a portion of Houston resides, does not have a hospital district. OakBend Medical Center serves as the county's charity hospital which the county contracts with.<ref>{{cite web|last=Knipp|first=Bethany|url=https://communityimpact.com/news/2016/11/02/fort-bend-county-lacks-hospital-district/|title=Fort Bend County lacks hospital district|newspaper=[[Community Impact Newspaper]]|date=November 2, 2016|access-date=October 18, 2021|quote=Despite being the fastest-growing county in the state, Fort Bend County&nbsp;... Harris and Montgomery counties have hospital districts, which provide a medical home}}</ref>