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.
As of the 2016-17 rankings report, U.S. News & World Report ranks it #4 amongst 200 pediatric hospitals in the nation for eight consecutive years.
It uses an enterprise data warehouse to monitor and report adherence to evidence-based guidelines and order sets on an ongoing basis.
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Rankings and recognition
In 2016-2017 U.S. News & World Report ranked Texas Children's Hospital among the top children's hospitals nationwide. 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 2016-2017.
Texas Children's national rankings for each subspecialty area for 2016-2017 are:
- #2 Pediatrics: Cancer
- #2 Pediatrics: Cardiology & Heart Surgery
- #11 Pediatrics: Diabetes & Endocrinology
- #6 Pediatrics: Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
- #14 Pediatrics: Neonatology
- #3 Pediatrics: Nephrology
- #2 Pediatrics: Neurology & Neurosurgery
- #21 Pediatrics: Orthopedics
- #1 Pediatrics: Pulmonology
- #5 Pediatrics: Urology
Notable people
Physicians-in-Chief
- Ralph Feigin, M.D. - Physician-in-Chief, 1977-2008, Texas Children's Hospital
- Mark Kline, M.D. - Physician-in-Chief, 2008-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. - Director, Texas Children's Cancer Center, Professor of Pediatrics.
- Jennifer Arnold, M.D. - neonatologist on staff, profiled on the television series The Little Couple
- Charles Fraser, Jr., M.D. - Surgeon-in-Chief, 2010-present
- Charles Mullins - TCH cardiologist (1970-2006); has been called "the father of modern interventional pediatric cardiology"
Patients
- David Vetter (1971-1984) - Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Syndrome (a.k.a. The Bubble Boy)
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