Memorial Hermann News & Updates

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Memorial Hermann Life Flight Soars to New Heights with $5 Million Donation from ExxonMobil
Houston, March 20, 2024

https://memorialhermann.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/memorial-hermann-life-flight-soars-new-heights-5-million-donation-exxonmobil

The Memorial Hermann Foundation is pleased to announce that ExxonMobil has generously donated $5 million to Memorial Hermann Life Flight to support a newly launched $55 million campaign to fund the purchase of four new helicopters and a specialty aircraft to replace the current, aging fleet.

The new fleet – expected to take flight in 2025 – will expand Life Flight’s service area to a 250-mile radius of Houston’s Texas Medical Center (TMC) to serve more people in need of critical air ambulance transport.

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Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants
April 11, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/us/organ-transplants-houston.html

A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new organs.

For decades, Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr., a transplant surgeon in Texas, gained accolades and national prominence for his work, including by helping to enforce professional standards in the country’s sprawling organ transplant system.

But officials are now investigating allegations that Dr. Bynon was secretly manipulating a government database to make some of his own patients ineligible to receive new livers, potentially depriving them of lifesaving care.

Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, where Dr. Bynon oversaw both the liver and kidney transplant programs, abruptly shut down those programs in the past week while looking into the allegations.