Children’s At A Glance
• Named one of the top children’s hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report. Specific clinical programs that are nationally ranked are Cancer, Endocrinology, Heart, Gastroenterology, Neonatology, Nephrology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology and Urology.
• Among only 6 percent of the nation’s hospitals to have Magnet Recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
• The only pediatric hospital in the nation with multiple disease-specific management program certifications by The Joint Commission.
• Serves children through nearly 570,000 patient visits every year.
• Primary pediatric teaching facility for The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
• Private, not-for-profit pediatric hospital system that receives no state or county tax dollars.
Our Facilities
• Campuses in Dallas and Plano, Texas; a new Specialty Care Center in Southlake, Texas; and outpatient centers across the Metroplex.
• Licensed for 559 inpatient beds.
• 71 dedicated pediatric intensive care unit beds, making it one of the nation’s largest ICUs just for children.
• 28 of the largest, most technologically advanced operating rooms available in pediatrics today.
• 21¬bed Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.
• Serving patients through more than 50 specialty and sub¬specialty programs.
• The first pediatric hospital in Texas with a designated Level I Trauma Center. Last year, we saw 14,000 trauma patients in our Emergency Department.
• A major pediatric kidney, liver, heart and bone marrow transplant center.
Nearly 100 Years of Making Life Better for Children
History
Children’s traces its origins to the summer of 1913 when a group of nurses organized an open¬air clinic on the lawn of the old Parkland Hospital for infants suffering from dysentery. The nurses recognized that children received better care when it was focused on them. The clinic grew into the Bradford Hospital for Babies, which merged with Children’s Hospital of Texas and Richmond Freeman Memorial Clinic in 1948 to form what is now known as Children’s Medical Center.Facilities
Children’s is licensed for 559 beds at two campuses, including 487 beds at its main campus in the Southwestern Medical District near the heart of downtown Dallas, and 72 beds at Children’s at Legacy in Plano, which opened in 2008. Combined, both facilities receive nearly 570,000 patient visits annually. In 2009, Children’s opened a new 10¬story tower on the Dallas campus that includes the Annette Simmons Heart Hospital and an expanded pediatric cardiac intensive care unit.We see children from across the nation. Childrens has more than 50 outpatient specialty programs with specialty care centers in Dallas, Plano and Southlake. Other satellite clinics are located throughout the Metroplex.
Patient Care
Children’s is the only academic healthcare facility in North Texas dedicated to the comprehensive care of children from birth to age 18. Children’s provides patient care ranging from simple eye exams to specialized treatment in areas such as heart disease, hematology/oncology and cystic fibrosis. In addition, Children’s is a major pediatric kidney, liver, heart and bone marrow transplant center. In 2006, physicians at Children’s performed the first successful combined heart¬liver transplant.Research
Through an affiliation with The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, the physicians on the medical staff at Children’s conduct research that is instrumental in developing treatments, therapies and greater understanding of pediatric diseases. Research programs in cancer, neonatology, kidney disease, infectious disease, pharmacology, sickle cell disease and psychiatry are nationally recognized. New treatments discovered on researchers’ benches at UT Southwestern are applied directly to patient care at Children’s, offering patients and their families more options for recovery and direct benefit from leading¬edge medical science. Our doctors lecture and teach their groundbreaking procedures around the world.
