Texas Children's Hospital
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Texas Children's Hospital is an internationally recognized pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. With 639 licensed beds and 465 beds in operation, Texas Children's is the largest children's hospital in the United States. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine and is its primary pediatric training site.
Texas Children's has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise and breakthrough developments in the treatment of pediatric cancer, diabetes, asthma, HIV, premature birth, attention-related disorders, organ transplants and cardiogenic disorders.
More than 42 pediatric subspecialties are available to patients at Texas Children’s.
The hospital's medical staff includes more than 1,580 board-certified, primary-care physicians, pediatric subspecialists, pediatric surgeons and dentists. In 2003, Texas Children's more than 1,000 highly skilled nurses achieved national Magnet Recognition, one of the highest honors in nursing. Only 1 % of hospitals in the nation receive this distinction.
Since opening its doors in 1954 under Physician-in-Chief Russell Blattner, Texas Children's Hospital has cared for more than 1 million children from every corner of the world in a family-centered environment. (The hospital is ranked among the top five pediatric hospitals nationwide by Child magazine and U.S. News & World Report.)
Texas Children's Hospital is dedicated to a community of healthy children by providing the finest possible pediatric patient care, education and research.
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- Texas Children’s Cancer Center and Hematology Service®
- Texas Children's Fetal Center
- Texas Children's Heart Center®
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
- Texas Children's Pediatric Lung Transplant Program
- Blue Bird Circle Clinic for Pediatric Neurology at Texas Children’s Hospital
- Texas Children’s Newborn Center®
- Texas Children’s Renal Center
