Press Releases and News

DALLAS (May 10, 2018) – Children’s Health℠ has announced the opening of Specialty Center 2 on its Plano campus. The 203,000-square-foot, four-story facility is the new home to the Children’s Health Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine and Sports Performance powered by EXOS, as well as the state-of-the-art Live Oak Surgery Center, Imaging Center and physician clinics.

DALLAS (March 8, 2018) – The Heart Center at Children’s Health℠, named one of the country’s top pediatric heart programs by U.S. News & World Report, today announced that it has performed 250 heart transplants in children, one of the largest volumes among hospitals nationwide. The milestone coincides with the 30th anniversary of the Heart Center’s pediatric heart transplant program, which began in 1988.

DALLAS (Nov. 14, 2017) – Children’s Health℠ today released the 15th edition of Beyond ABC: Assessing the Well-Being of Children in North Texas, a 98-page report examining the quality of life for children in Dallas, Collin, Cooke, Denton, Fannin and Grayson counties.

DALLAS – Through a collaboration with Toyota, Children’s Health℠, the leading pediatric health system in North Texas, announced today it has successfully reduced rates of central line-associated blood stream infections (CLABSIs) by 75 percent with patients in the gastroenterology unit.

Plano, TX [March 23, 2017] – In Texas, one motor vehicle crash occurred every 61 seconds in 2015.1 However, a properly installed car seat can help dramatically reduce injury and prevent death in the case of a crash. That’s why Toyota and Cincinnati Children’s are working with Children’s Health℠, the leading pediatric health care system in North Texas, to bring the national safety program Buckle Up for Life to families in North Texas.