Texas Children's Hospital is a pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
With 639 licensed beds and 465 beds in operation, it is the largest children's hospital in the United States and is affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine as that institution's primary pediatric training site.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Texas Children's Hospital #4 amongst 200 pediatric hospitals in the nation for nine consecutive years.
It uses an enterprise data warehouse to monitor and report adherence to evidence-based guidelines and order sets on an ongoing basis.
Rankings and recognition
This is Texas Children's Hospital - Texas Children's Hospital is ranked as one of the nation's top children's hospitals by U.S. News & World Report. Our mission is to create a healthier future for children and women throughout...
The 2017â€"2018 edition of U.S. News & World Report recognized Texas Children's Hospital as among the top 4 children's hospitals in the United States. It is designated on the U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll, which is reserved to those hospitals that rank in all 10 subspecialties surveyed. Texas Children’s Hospital is 1 of 10 hospitals on the Honor Roll for 2017â€"2018.
Texas Children's national rankings for each subspecialty area for 2017â€"2018 are:
- #4 Pediatric Cancer
- #1 Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery
- #6 Pediatric Diabetes & Endocrinology
- #4 Pediatric Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
- #11 Neonatology
- #4 Pediatric Nephrology
- #4 Pediatric Neurology & Neurosurgery
- #16 Pediatric Orthopedics
- #2 Pediatric Pulmonology
- #6 Pediatric Urology
Notable people
Physicians-in-Chief
- Ralph Feigin, M.D. â€" Physician-in-Chief, 1977â€"2008, Texas Children's Hospital
- Mark Kline, M.D. â€" Physician-in-Chief, 2008â€"Present, Texas Children's Hospital; Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine; President of the Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI)
Physicians
- David Poplack, M.D. â€" Director, Texas Children's Cancer Center, Professor of Pediatrics.
- Jennifer Arnold, M.D. â€" neonatologist on staff, profiled on the television series The Little Couple
- Charles Fraser, Jr., M.D. â€" Surgeon-in-Chief, 2010â€"present
- Charles Mullins â€" TCH cardiologist (1970â€"2006); has been called "the father of modern interventional pediatric cardiology"
Patients
- David Vetter (1971â€"1984) â€" Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome (a.k.a., The Bubble Boy)
- The Mata Twins (2014-present) - Formerly conjoined twins that underwent a 26 hour operation to be surgically separated
References
External links
- Official website
