Harris Health board terminating contract with Baylor, UT

The board of the Harris Health System, the county's safety-net hospital district, voted Thursday to give its two Houston medical school partners notice it is terminating its existing agreement "without cause." The action triggers a five-year wind down of the existing contract, during which Harris Health and Baylor College of Medicine and McGovern Medical School at UTHealth will work to negotiate a new contract with updated terms, according to a Harris Health news release.