They have successfully mirrored the growth of the surrounding community by expanding their services and capabilities to match the needs of southwest Houston. The Asian Care Unit, Senior Services, Level III NICU and expanded emergency capabilities exemplify their vigilance in ensuring the community’s needs are met. When they opened the hospital’s doors 35 years ago they made a commitment to their neighbors that they would make their health and well-being their highest priority. Today, they proudly honor this commitment through their wealth of services and will continue to be committed and expand with the community for the next 35 years and beyond.

This video showcases the hospital’s commitment to making a difference in the lives of the ever-changing community they serve. It highlights key employees and physicians who exemplify the servant leadership spirit that make Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital special.

Has Memorial Hermann Southwest been a part of your life? We would also like to invite you to be part of our celebration by sending your photos to gerrit.vonwenckstern@memorialhermann.org to be included in the 35th Anniversary Poster*. Include your mailing address and you will receive a copy of this poster as a token of our appreciation.

*By submitting your photographs you agree to the following:

I consent to photographs or recordings of me as described below (see section 1), and irrevocably grant to Memorial Hermann Healthcare System/Memorial Hermann Hospital System, their affiliates, nominees, licensees, successors and assignees, and those acting with its permission or authority (hereinafter collectively referred to as “MH”), with respect to the photographs, film, audio, electronic media or tape taken of me by, or on behalf of MH, (the “Pictures or Works”), the unrestricted absolute, perpetual, worldwide right to:

1. Create the Pictures or Works for the following specific circumstance: Memorial Hermann Southwest 35th Anniversary Video; and,
2. Reproduce, copy, modify, create derivatives in whole or in part, or otherwise use the Pictures or Works, or any part thereof in combination with or as a composite of other matter, including, but not limited to, text, data, images, photographs, illustrations, animation and graphics, video or audio segments of any nature, in any media or embodiment, now known or hereafter to become known, including, but not limited to, all formats of computer readable electronic magnetic, digital, laser or optical-based media;
3. Use and permit to be used my name in connection with the Pictures or Works as MH may choose;
4. Display, perform, exhibit, distribute, transmit or broadcast the Pictures or Works by any means now known or hereafter to become known.

Waiver and Release

I hereby waive all rights and release MH, its Board of Directors, officers, managers, employees and agents from any claim or cause of action, whether now known or unknown, for invasion of right to privacy, publicity or personality or any similar matter, or based upon or relating to the use and exploitation of the Pictures or Works.

I agree that there shall be no obligation to utilize the authorization granted by me hereunder. The terms of this authorization shall commence on the date hereof and be without limitation except as stated below.

I agree to execute Memorial Hermann Healthcare System’s Authorization for Disclosure of Protected Health Information as it applies to this release. I am aware of my privacy rights.

I warrant and represent that I am over the age of eighteen years and that I am free to enter into this agreement.

2012 CIP Public Meetings Schedule

Parker Elementary is raising $80,000 to send almost 75 students to Minneapolis, MN for the Performing Strings group to perform at the Suzuki of the Americas International Conference in May.

You can donate via their website: www.parkerelementary.com or by contacting the magnet office at (713) 726-2122

Parker Elementary School’s performing strings group will perform for music educators from around the world this May during the Suzuki Association of the Americas conference in Minneapolis.

View the article from the Houston Chronicle

Please join us Monday night, February 20 at Luby’s (by the Randall’s on S. Post Oak) for the Parker Café! Bring the attached voucher with you and give to your server when you pay the bill. 15% of all proceeds will go towards the Performing Strings trip to Minneapolis, MN in May.

Download Voucher

ECHOS
9600 S Gessner @ Bissonnet Bldg. E

Hours of Operation:
8:00 am – 2:00 pm Monday – Thursday

Phone: 713.270.0369
www.echos-houston.org

Here is their February 2012 Calendar:

Spanish Version February 2012 Calendar:

Candidates Forum 2011 from e-Vision 1 Productions on Vimeo.

Real Estate Forum 2011 from e-Vision 1 Productions on Vimeo.

PAIR has been fortunate to receive tremendous community support this year, including local and national awards to fund our rapidly growing programs. But in order to continue its growth, PAIR requires matching funds for expansion projects.

When you become a Friend of PAIR, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar up to $30,000. Their goal is to raise at least $10,000 this holiday season to provide critical funding for expansion.

To donate, visit www.pairhouston.org/friendsofpair. More information on what the expansion entails may be found in the Friends of PAIR booklet.

Quick facts:

• PAIR is serving twice the number of refugee youth in fall 2011 than we served in fall 2010, with twice the number of volunteers.
• PAIR is operating a greatly expanded summer program and Explorers Saturday program through a partnership with the Neighborhood Centers Inc. Baker-Ripley campus.
• PAIR Learners after-school program days have tripled in the last year, increasing from two to six per week.
• PAIR Leaders program added an additional program day each week at Westbury High School and served over 100 students just this fall.

Become a Friend of PAIR today: www.pairhouston.org/friendsofpair

During the year we reported on the District expansion to include the remainder of the Braeburn Super Neighborhood and the entirety of the Westbury Subdivision. This change added a new board member, Ms. Cindy Chapman, who you will learn more about in this edition. The expansion will also require updates to our Service and Assessment Plan which was up for renewal in 2012. Through this expansion, new services and plans will grow over time and we invite all of our new community partners in Braeburn and Westbury to attend upcoming board and/or committee meetings and get involved in the District.

If I had to choose one word to express 2011’s advances in Public Safety it would be “Watershed”. Watershed in that it marked a clear division between the days and perception of Fondren SW and the rebirth and realization of the phoenix now established as Brays Oaks. In October we celebrated the grand opening of the South Gessner Patrol Station. We continue to expand our public safety program through creative collaboration and we have partnered with the County Attorney to create a unique partnership that assists us in prosecuting undesirable nuisance businesses who try and operate in the District. We also expanded our after school bus program to include Westbury Christian and the India House. The good news which began in July of 2010 when the Heart of our District – 77071 was named one of the “Top 10 Safest Zip Codes” in Houston continued through 2011 with crime at a six year low.

In environmental and urban design we created a new litter abatement program. In keeping with our promise to make this the best District in Houston, we recognized that additional services were required in terms of litter abatement and general cleaning of the public rights-of-way. In business development we have created the Relocation Houston Program which is an initiative to showcase the District and Houston as an ideal place to work and live. We have hired a professional consultant, Davis Consulting, to assist with this outreach program. As we move forward into 2012 our comprehensive strategy will be tracked to gauge successes of the programs developed.

We hope that you will enjoy reading of all of our successes in this 2011 year in review and look forward to sharing even more good news in the coming year. Our best wishes for a safe and wonderful holiday season and a blessed New Year.

Employment Opportunities

The Brays Oaks District’s economy is very diverse with a mix of public and private employment, companies of all sizes and a very dynamic not-for-profit community.

• 8 miles from the Texas Medical Center – the Largest Employment Center in the City.
• Access to the Three Largest Major Highway Arteries in the City.
• The District’s Advisory Committee has access to the Texas Medical Center’s HR Director for Job Referrals.

Top Houston Medical Related Employers

Sharps Compliance Corp. | Memorial Hermann Healthcare | UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Methodist Hospital System | US Oncology | Texas Children’s Hospital

Health Care

Houston offers the world-renowned Texas Medical Center which is less than 8 miles from the Brays Oaks District. It is the world’s largest concentration of expertise in medical treatment and care, medical research and medical tech- nology. Houston also offers the Harris County Hospital District and eight specific facilities ranked among the top 50 in the U.S.

Housing

The Brays Oaks area excels at providing a broad range of very cost-competitive housing options with beautiful, multi-family housing complexes with first class amenities.; in fact Houston’s housing costs are the lowest among the 27 metro areas with more than two million residents.

• Stable Deed Restricted Single Family Communities
• Over 17,000 Single Family Homes in the District
• Plans for New Single-family Residential Development
• Relocation Assistance through the Brays Oaks District

With the rapid growth over the past ten years, there were so many new and revitalized areas that they felt clarification was needed. To that end the District hosted meetings of real estate professionals to work with HAR to assist with the reclassification. The District had long maintained that Brays Oaks should be its own designated area in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) and not a part of Zone 20, Bellaire South.

In October we were notified that HAR had accepted our recommendations and Brays Oaks will appear as its own designation in the near future and no longer be known commonly as Fondren Southwest. As a part of our rebranding efforts this is another significant step in the right direction or as our Chairman, Etan Mirwis said, “absolutely awesome”.