As part of Community Impact Newspaper's annual health care edition, staff collects information about the hospitals providing care to local residents, including each facility's trauma and NICU level, number of beds and staffing. This list is noncomprehensive.

The Heights Hospital by Village Health
  • Trauma level: IV
  • NICU level: N/A
  • Number of beds: 40 medical-surgical beds, 4 intensive care unit beds
  • Number of physicians: 156
  • Number of nurses: around 40
  • 1917 Ashland St., Houston
  • https://village-health.care
Memorial Hermann Greater Heights HospitalRiver Oaks Hospital & Clinics
  • Trauma level: N/A
  • NICU level: N/A
  • Number of beds: emergency room with 19 rooms and 20 bays, 11-bed intensive/intermediate care unit, 32-bed medical-surgical/telemetry floor
  • Number of physicians: 300 (doctors are credentialed to provide care at both River Oaks Hospital & Clinics and East Houston Hospital & Clinics)
  • Number of nurses: more than 95 (between both River Oaks Hospital & Clinics and East Houston Hospital & Clinics)
  • One unique program or feature: When a patient is admitted to the hospital, staff provides flowers and complimentary valet, and offers a patient-centered concierge services in an effort to optimize health and wellbeing. Staff also seeks to connect with the community through events designed to support the health of residents.
  • 4200 Twelve Oaks Place, Houston
  • www.rohc.care
What is means

A hospital's trauma levels is set on scale of Level I through Level IV, with Level I trauma centers offering the highest level of care.
  • Level I: highest level of care with a full range of specialists and equipment in-house 24/7
  • Level II: offers specialists on call 24/7 and can transfer to Level I facilities
  • Level III: offers resources for emergency surgery and intensive care but may have to transfer to higher-level facilities for more serious issues
  • Level IV: provides initial evaluation, stabilization and diagnostic capabilities but may have to transfer to higher-level facilities for more serious issues
Neonatal intensive care unit levels are also determined on a four-level scale, but the highest NICU level is Level IV.
  • Level I: newborn nursery that can care for mothers and infants at 35-plus weeks of gestation with routine prenatal problems
  • Level II: specialty care nursery that can care for mothers and infants at 32-plus weeks of gestation with problems to be resolved rapidly
  • Level III: neonatal intensive care unit that can care for mothers and infants of all gestational ages with mild to critical illnesses
  • Level IV: advanced NICU that can care for mothers and infants of all gestational ages as well as the most complex, critically ill infants