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Spina Bifida Association of Texas, Inc.-Houston Chapter

  • Corporate body
  • 1975-

This is now Spina Bifida Houston Gulf Coast. They are no longer associated with the national organization and have changed their name to reflect that. Their primary focus now is The Camp That Love Built, a camp for children with spina bifida. This started in 1975 as a camp for special-needs children and moved to Burton, Texas, in 1998

Stroke Group of Texas

  • Corporate body

History unclear: The material in the collection begins in the early 1980s and the group appears to have been in existence as late as 1995 and possibly as late as 2006.

Harris County Psychiatric Center

  • Corporate body
  • 1986-

The Harris County Psychiatric Center opened in 1986 and became the psychiatric wing of the UT Health Science Center at Houston in 1990; it serves as the teaching hospital for the McGovern Medical School. Except for the outpatient ECT clinic, it provides inpatient care only and runs specialized programs to address a long list of concerns. Outpatients are referred to the NeuroPsychiatric Center at Ben Taub Hospital or to a Mental Health and Mental Retardation Association clinic. It serves the community both directly and through the Harris County jail and juvenile detention systems, school districts, and many other educational, legal, and health and development-focused institutions.

Ronald McDonald House (Houston, Tex.)

  • Corporate body
  • 1981-

Ronald McDonald Houses provide a home-like place for families to stay while their children are receiving treatment in the hospital. The Houses were the idea of Fred Hill of the Philadelphia Eagles football team, when he and his wife needed a place to stay while their daughter Kim underwent treatment for leukemia at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The first Ronald McDonald House opened in Philadelphia in 1974. Houston’s first Ronald McDonald House, funded in part by the Houston Oilers, opened at 1550 La Concha lane, near the Astrodome, in 1981. It had 21 bedrooms but was soon outgrown and replaced with a 50-bedroom House nearer the Texas Medical Center, near Holcomb Boulevard and Cambridge Street, in 1997. There is also a 20-room House inside Texas Children’s Hospital (2002) and a 14-room one inside Children’s Memorial Hermann (2007).

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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) first appeared in the United States during the 1970s, and swept across the country and the rest of the world during the 1980s and 1990s, although the disease originated much earlier. Scientists have traced the origins of HIV back to chimpanzees and an HIV-like virus called simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV). Scientists identified HIV as the cause of AIDS in 1984, and developed a blood test for the disease. HIV/AIDS was originally thought to be a disease that only affected the homosexual community, but scientists soon discovered that the disease could be contracted through exposure to HIV-infected blood, including through blood transfusions and heterosexual sex. In the city of Houston, the Montrose Clinic opened its doors in 1978 as an STD testing center for gay men, with the first case of AIDS (then called Gay Related Immune Deficiency) diagnosed in Houston in 1981. Board members of the Montrose Clinic and Montrose Counseling Center established AIDS Foundation Houston in 1985 to assist individuals with services, such as food and a place to stay. That same year, as the fear of AIDS grew across the country, an initiative to prohibit the city of Houston from disciminating against homosexuals is defeated. In 1989, the Montrose Clinic became one of the American Foundation for AIDS Research’s test sites, which allowed greater access to recently discovered experimental treatments, and the Thomas Street Clinic opened two years later as a publicly funded outpatient clinic for those infected. The Ryan White Care Act was signed by President Bush in 1990, which provided funds to counties around the country, with Harris County receiving $3.7 million the following year. Treatments were developed to treat HIV/AIDS and have progressed through the decades with more than half of those currently infected with HIV receiving antiretroviral treatment, but a cure has not been found.

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The Institute of Religion, now known as the Institute of Spirituality and Health, was founded in 1955 by members of the Houston medical and religious communities. The Institute established the first medical ethics center and one of the first hospital chaplaincy programs in the United States. The Institute conducts lectures on subjects related to medical ethics, healthcare, spirituality and well-being.

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Joseph P. Maurer was a photographer in the Houston-area. He was the photographer credited in the 1960 edition of the Harris County Medical Society Pictorial Roster and Handbook. He was one of five photographers acknowledged in the annual publication from 1954-1968. Other photographers include Gorndon Conner (1954-1958), Arch Hetherwick (1959), Roulande (1961-1962), and Foley’s department store (1965). Photographer appeared to take portrait of new members as well as prepare photographs for print.

The first Harris County Medical Society Pictorial Roster and Handbook of the was published in 1954. Patterned after a similar publication by the Jackson County Medical Society of Missouri (Kansas City), it provided portraits of Harris County Medical Society current members in the year of publication along with medical specialty and biographical information. Dr. Wendell H Hamrick was the first editor.

Hickey, Lela Smith

  • circa 1910-1970

Lela Smith Hickey (Mrs. H. H.) graduated from the Lillie Jolly School of Nursing in 1933. She donated a collection of about 31 photographs that depict the nurses, nursing students, physicians, and facilities of Memorial Hospital in 1932, including the operating room supervisor “Birdie” Byrd. According to a note found in the collection, she was a distant cousin of D. R. Pevoto, founder of Memorial Hospital, and worked “CU” [perhaps, Intensive Care Unit] until early 1960s. Lela Smith Hickey died May 7, 1970.

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