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April 2016

Community News HCC Campus

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Earth Day Chemical-Free Products

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Health Report

Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Specialists

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Back Pain Down to Level Zero... Pain Free!

Missouri City’s HCC Campus

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HEALTH MATTERS WITH DR. STEVE HARRIS WHERE PAIN RELIEF COMES NATURALLY

my Sharp

Community News

Health Report Houston Methodist

Health Mat ters with Dr. Harris Back Pain Down to Level Zero... Pain Free!

hen Ken Masaki’s close friends recommended chiropractor Dr. Steve Harris for his back pain, he was skeptical. “I had worked with a different chiropractor before,” says Ken, “and had a bad experience. Plus, I was seeking treatment at the with a nuero-spinal specialist and I wanted to continue that course of action.” e specialist discovered Ken had herniated discs. “The specialist did a good n helping me,”says Ken. “My constant pain went from a 10 down to a 3, occasional spikes of 5 to 7...and I was very happy. But I also hoped to go er. Since my friends had great success with Dr. Harris, I decided to give him I was really impressed. Unlike the other chiropractor—who immediately to work on me and my pain got worse—Dr. Harris didn’t touch me at the appointment. He did an evaluation, asked a series of questions, and looked MRI. He really wanted to figure out and understand my situation. Then vited myself and my wife back to a consultation, where he presented his mmendations and why. That really gave me confidence that we were not ing into this blindly...that Dr. Harris truly understood my situation. He me several options for treatment, and I chose the one I could work with. e my treatment plan was even complete, my pain level was at zero...with the ional spike of maybe 0.5!” ieving pain...it’s what Dr. Harris has been doing since 1976. Today he’s der in his field, and he trains other doctors in treating herniated discs spinal decompression techniques and laser. Dr. Harris says, “As Ken has ienced, spinal disc decompression traction is a breakthrough technology sc conditions. If we can get you out of pain without drugs or surgery, it’s a hier option. With new technology and techniques, we are more effective now

than ever before.” “I know I’m not cured in the classical sense, but I truly believe that if I do what I need to do and follow Dr. Harris’ maintenance plan, I will remain pain-free,” says Ken. “I highly, highly recommend Dr. Harris. I know there is some skepticism out there about chiropractors...I even had a bad experience myself. But given my friends experience with Dr. Harris, I figured I had nothing to lose...and it turned out to be the greatest thing for my pain.”

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Community News

An HCC Campus in Missouri City? Sounds great, but let’s do the math.

hen you think of Houston Community College, typically Missouri City does not come to mind. However, for the trustees and officers at HCC you can rest for sure that Missouri City has weighed heavy on their minds for quite some time now and well into the foreseeable future. In fact, HCC has burned through a substantial amount of money and a decade of time in an attempt to build up a successful satellite location in Missouri City. The school’s most recent arrangement requires taking an almost $10 million misfortune auctioning off a completely created facility in Fort Bend County and afterward will spend a least twice that amount on another school. HCC authorities say the school is just swapping an elusive rural grounds with sputtering enlistment for another simple to-access school close Missouri City

lobby. In other words, they are going for the long term investment. Very long term. Experts say that the move might turn out to be only the most recent in a string of barren wasteland bargains orchestrated by HCC authorities. HCC’s battle to assemble a Missouri City facility started in the mid-2000s when the school purchased a section of Sienna Plantation - an upscale neighborhood where authorities were convinced that a junior college could thrive. Its past site location, in a mall off Texas Parkway, had neglected to pull in the numerous understudies they hoped for. Throughout the following decade, the school burned through well over $20 million dollars on the Sienna Plantation grounds, which opened in 2008. It incorporates a close to a 50K square foot school building and a province library that the school constructed. Be that as

it may, the grounds, concealed in the conveniently manicured neighborhood, once again this investment hasn’t been as effective as authorities trusted. Only 1,000 understudies went to classes there the previous fall. In 2012, voters affirmed a $20 plus million dollar extension of the battling Sienna Plantation grounds, however the authorities soon would start wanting to spend that cash moving the grounds to another location. Records demonstrate a move was in progress as early as mid-2014. The arrangement includes offering the Sienna Plantation grounds and moving back to Texas Parkway in a confounded course of action including a private engineer, a neighborhood charitable, Fort Bend County and Missouri City. School pioneers as of now have affirmed offering 33 sections of undeveloped area

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back to the area’s designer at the same cost the school paid for it in the mid2000. What’s more, Fort Bend County will get HCC’s completely created grounds working to use for office space for a steal at $8 million. The cumulative for HCC is just marginally more than half of what they put resources into the grounds. Tallying the misfortune on the Sienna Plantation grounds and the expense of purchasing land and building the new school at the new area, HCC’s sticker price for the move is more than $30 million dollars. It didn’t bode well that a grounds in Fort Bend County - one of the country’s quickest developing regions - wouldn’t flourish, particularly when more than 14,000 understudies took classes at the adjacent Stafford grounds in 2014. By August 2014, HCC authorities had chosen the move and that may be a smart decision, however they never did any attainability or cost considerations. In September, the board collectively gave the higher learning overseers power to build up an idea for a “potential” migration. It was the first of numerous votes progressing and related area exchanges by the HCC board, Missouri City committee, Fort Bend magistrates and Fort Bend voters. These are the same voters who in November gave the district authorization to utilize security cash to purchase the Sienna Plantation grounds building in the first place. Perhaps the voters are not at fault here since when it’s all added up it wasn’t a matter of who did the math, the math was never done.

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Health Report

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HEALTH MATTERS WITH DR. STEVE HARRIS WHERE PAIN RELIEF COMES NATURALLY

Back Pain Down to Level Zero... Pain Free! by Amy Sharp

hen Ken Masaki’s close friends recommended chiropractor Dr. Steve Harris for his back pain, he was skeptical. “I had worked with a different chiropractor before,” says Ken, “and had a bad experience. Plus, I was seeking treatment at the time with a nuero-spinal specialist and I wanted to continue that course of action.” The specialist discovered Ken had herniated discs. “The specialist did a good job in helping me,”says Ken. “My constant pain went from a 10 down to a 3, with occasional spikes of 5 to 7...and I was very happy. But I also hoped to go further. Since my friends had great success with Dr. Harris, I decided to give him a try. I was really impressed. Unlike the other chiropractor—who immediately went to work on me and my pain got worse—Dr. Harris didn’t touch me at the first appointment. He did an evaluation, asked a series of questions, and looked at my MRI. He really wanted to figure out and understand my situation. Then he invited myself and my wife back to a consultation, where he presented his recommendations and why. That really gave me confidence that we were not jumping into this blindly...that Dr. Harris truly understood my situation. He gave me several options for treatment, and I chose the one I could work with. Before my treatment plan was even complete, my pain level was at zero...with the occasional spike of maybe 0.5!” Relieving pain...it’s what Dr. Harris has been doing since 1976. Today he’s a leader in his field, and he trains other doctors in treating herniated discs using spinal decompression techniques and laser. Dr. Harris says, “As Ken has experienced, spinal disc decompression traction is a breakthrough technology for disc conditions. If we can get you out of pain without drugs or surgery, it’s a healthier option. With new technology and techniques, we are more effective now

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