Legacy Community Health

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Legacy Community Health is a full-service, Community Health Center that provides comprehensive, primary healthcare services to all Houstonians in a culturally sensitive, judgment-free and confidential environment. Legacy has specialized in HIV/AIDS testing, education, treatment and social services since the early 1980s.We also provide care for other chronic health conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. Generous financial support from individuals, businesses and charitable foundations allows Legacy to provide no-cost or low-cost healthcare services to nearly 85,000 men, women and children each year.

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United States, Texas, Houston

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Founded date

1981

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Oct 29, 2021	5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week	Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, a new partnership between The Ion and Ca...
Oct 27, 2021	Houston university's MBA program claims coveted top spot of annual ranking	Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business has raked in yet another top spot on an annual list of top MBA programs. A new ranking from Poets & Quants, which covers news about business schools, puts Rice at No. 3 among the world...
Oct 26, 2021	Greentown Labs hires former Houston sustainability exec	The country's largest climatetech startup incubator has made a strategic new hire. Lara Cottingham is the new chief of staff for Greentown Labs, a Boston-area company that opened in Houston earlier this year. Cottingham previously served as...
Oct 26, 2021	Renewables are Houston's next chapter, says this expert	Houston has long been known as an innovative city — from medicine to technology to creative cuisines (see Viet-Cajun). I am always proud to see how cultures, education, and change come together to build the fabric of our city. As we look fo...
Sep 27, 2021	3 Houston innovators to know this week	Editor's note: In this week's roundup of Houston innovators to know, I'm introducing you to three local innovators across industries — from space health to virtual collaboration — recently making headlines in Houston innovation. James Hury,...
Sep 24, 2021	Rice University rises with massive $100M gift for innovative new student center	Rice University's Owls are soaring of late, with the school just being named the top in Texas and No. 7 in the U.S. Now, the institution known as the "Ivy League of the South" is the recipient of a mammoth gift aimed at a game-cha...
Sep 24, 2021	City launches public dashboard for tracking COVID-19 in Houston's wastewater	In 2020, a group of researchers began testing Houston's wastewater to collect data to help identify trends at the community level. Now, the team's work has been rounded up to use as an online resource. The Houston Health Department and Rice...
Sep 17, 2021	5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week	Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included new hires at Houston startups, photos from the InnovationMap...
Sep 16, 2021	Houston expert: Texas energy customers deserve transparency	As Texas continues to grapple with fallout from Winter Storm Uri and state regulators determine the next steps forward to strengthen the electricity grid, protecting consumers and providing transparency regarding their energy bills must be ...
Sep 13, 2021	Photos: InnovationMap shares scenes from its inaugural awards celebration	Last week, the inaugural InnovationMap Awards presented by Techwave honored 28 companies across eight categories. The hybrid event, which took place on September 8, was hosted at The Cannon West Houston as well as streamed online. The in-pe...
Sep 13, 2021	University of Houston prescribes homeless relief with new free clinic	Houston is no stranger to the plague of homelessness and now, a major university has a prescription for some relief. The University of Houston College of Nursing will open its new Nursing Health Clinic in Midtown on September 13, the school...
Sep 10, 2021	Editor's note: Celebrating 100 episodes of the Houston Innovators Podcast and the InnovationMap Awards	Editor's note: It's been a big week for InnovationMap. Not only did we celebrate our inaugural awards program on Wednesday, September 8, but, coincidentally, this week marked the 100th episode of the Houston Innovators Podcast. The podcast,...
Sep 10, 2021	5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week	Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap overwhelmingly included coverage of the inaigural InnovationMap Award...
Sep 8, 2021	Watch the InnovationMap Awards livestream honoring Houston tech and innovation	Who are Houston's rising stars across energy transition, sports tech, health, and more? Watch the livestream to find out. Click play on the video above, or join the conversation on YouTube by clicking here. We are also honoring our 2021 Tra...
Sep 8, 2021	Rice University named one of the greatest schools in U.S. in prestigious new report	Just mere weeks after being named the No. 7 university in the nation, a local hall of higher learning has just landed on yet another prestigious list. Rice University has scored high marks in the Princeton Review's annual survey on the nati...
Sep 1, 2021	10+ can't-miss Houston business and innovation events in September	This month, Houstonians have yet another good batch of in-person and online innovation events, including the inaugural InnovationMap Awards, and you and your tech network need to know about them. Here's a roundup of virtual events not to mi...
Aug 30, 2021	Houston-based research organization teams up with SpaceX for historic mission	The world's first all-civilian human spaceflight mission to orbit will be participating in health-related research projects sponsored by a Houston organization. The crew of Inspiration4 will contribute to research projects that the Translat...
Aug 30, 2021	Houston startup addresses gaps in the gig economy with new app	Two Houstonians are making student side hustles on college campuses a whole lot safer and easier. When Madison Long and Simone May were undergraduate students at Purdue University, their only option for scoping out basic services — like get...
Aug 27, 2021	5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week	Editor's note: Another week has come and gone, and it's time to round up the top headlines from the past few days. Trending Houston tech and startup news on InnovationMap included innovators to know, 28 companies being named as finalists in...
Aug 27, 2021	Houston-based composting startup grows commercial and residential subscribers amid pandemic	From landfills leaking into the water supply to reports of recycling being dropped in landfills, Houston's sustainable future has been mired by waste management faux-pas. According to a fact sheet from the City of Houston, 81 percent of tra...
Aug 27, 2021	Here's which of the InnovationMap Awards finalists are hiring	After scouring Houston for the best of the Houston innovation ecosystem and evaluating dozens of companies, InnovationMap has announced the finalists in its inaugural awards. But which of these companies are growing their teams? Turns out, ...
Aug 26, 2021	Houston expert shares tips for shrinking your lab's carbon footprint	Trying to make your lab greener? Here are some practical examples of how to reduce your lab's carbon footprint and increase sustainability. Since China stopped accepting certain types of plastic waste from the United States and Europe in 20...
Aug 26, 2021	Innovative Houston-based pharmacy debuts new $55M facility	Adding heft to Houston's health care economy, Empower Pharmacy on August 26 publicly debuted what the company bills as North America's most technologically advanced compounding pharmacy. Highlights of the new $55 million, 86,000-square-foot...
Aug 25, 2021	Halliburton company raises $10M, gBETA opens apps, Houston coworking space expands, and more innovation news	It's been a busy summer for the Houston innovation ecosystem, and for this reason, local startup and tech news may have fallen through some of the cracks. In this roundup of short stories within Houston innovation, a Halliburton Labs member...
Aug 25, 2021	Houston investor shares why she's focused on funding the future of femtech	Successful investors find gaps in the marketplace and direct funds into startups and technologies resolving those gaps. For Kyra Doolan, managing director at Houston-based Texas HALO Fund, femtech represents a huge opportunity for innovatio...
Aug 17, 2021	Impact-driven Houston fintech startup officially launches after successful beta	Today is National Nonprofit Day, and there are a lot of ways to celebrate it — sign up to volunteer, donate to your favorite organization, and more. But Andrea Young is celebrating by officially launching her fintech startup. After going th...
Aug 17, 2021	Annual report ranks Houston university as the best in Texas	There's something to be said for consistency. In a new report card from Niche.com, Rice University retains its No. 7 ranking among the best colleges in the U.S. and its No. 1 ranking among the best colleges in Texas. Niche.com, which helps ...
Jun 10, 2021	Legacy Community Health And Canton & Company Launch Joint Venture To Advance Community Health And Wellness	Monarch Health Solutions aims to be a catalyst for progress by providing support for Community Health Centers with first-of-its kind suite of proven managed services Legacy Community Health, the largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQ...
Mar 9, 2021	Testing.com Announces Best Free STD Testing Organizations in Baytown, TX	SEATTLE (PRWEB) March 09, 2021 Testing.com, a trusted informational guide for medical lab testing and at-home screening, has published a report on the increasing STD cases and resources for addressing this issue in Baytown. Research experts...
Jan 18, 2021	Wellness4Humanity: Biotechnology Meets The Live Event Space. New York City Flagship Store Opens January 25th, 2021	Wellness4Humanity's COVID-19 test kit vending machines (FDA EUA approved) As approved COVID-19 vaccines slowly become available to the public, it’s a fact that a substantial portion of the general population will continue to refuse vaccinat...

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FAQ about Legacy Community Health

When was Legacy Community Health founded?

Legacy Community Health was founded in 1981.

What has the press written about Legacy Community Health?

Parsers VC has collected 31 articles mentioning Legacy Community Health, among them “5 most popular innovation stories in Houston this week” (Oct 29, 2021) and “Houston university's MBA program claims coveted top spot of annual ranking” (Oct 27, 2021).

Is Legacy Community Health still active?

Yes, Legacy Community Health is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 1, 2021.