‘It’s very needed’ Third Ward community reacts to plans for historic Riverside General Hospital building
“Every time I walk into that house I get that warm fuzzy feeling because that was my house and now it’s my daughter’s house,” Landa Harris said.“Houston Negro Hospital... I was born there,” she said.
Years later, the hospital became Riverside General Hospital, which shut down in 2015 after a Medicare scandal, leaving many people in the Third Ward neighborhood shut out of accessible healthcare.City leaders announced a new plan for the building on Monday. According to Episcopal Health Foundation’s Life Expectancy Map, the Life expectancy rate in the 77004 zip code is between 68-72 years old, which is the bottom 5% and the lowest across the state.
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