{"id":4685,"date":"2017-08-28T23:52:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T05:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4685"},"modified":"2017-08-28T23:52:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T05:52:42","slug":"on-site-medical-care-at-george-r-brown-convention-center-shelter-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4685","title":{"rendered":"On-site medical care at George R. Brown Convention Center shelter in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2017\/08\/28\/hhs-establishing-medical-shelter-to-aid-those-affected-by-hurricane-harvey.html\">According to a recent press release<\/a>, those sheltering at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston &#8220;will have medical care on-site through a 250-bed Federal Medical Station established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at the request of the State Department of Health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Federal Medical Station is scheduled to be operational Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;HHS has additional Federal Medical Stations available for patient care in Texas, and has positioned two 250-bed Federal Medical Stations in Baton Rouge ready to be deployed in Louisiana should state officials determine they are needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>HHS has also &#8220;activated its Disaster Distress Helpline, a toll-free call center, that is available at 1-800-985-5990 to aid people in coping with the behavioral health effects of the storm and help people in impacted areas connect with local behavioral health professionals.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a recent press release, those sheltering at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston &#8220;will have medical care on-site through a 250-bed Federal Medical Station established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=4685\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hurricanes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-1dz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4686,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4685\/revisions\/4686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}