Harris County to Turn Riverside Hospital into a Mental Health Facility

Style Magazine Newswire | 3/23/2018, 8:38 a.m.
The former Riverside General Hospital will get a new lease on life. Harris County will purchase the building in Houston’s …
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Source: HoustonPublicMedia.org

The former Riverside General Hospital will get a new lease on life. Harris County will purchase the building in Houston’s Third Ward, to revive it as a mental health facility. Harris County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to purchase Riverside out of federal bankruptcy. That’s the first step in what’s expected to be a seven-year process. Houston Endowment will help raise the $18 million the county will need to refurbish the building. In its new incarnation, Riverside will house a clinic for the underserved Third Ward. It will also let Harris County divert some mentally ill individuals out of the jail system. Judge Ed Emmett said, though, that this will do little to relieve the pressure on the jail, considered one of the largest mental health providers in Texas.

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