Texas Children's Hospital
Texas Children's Hospital, licensed for 737 beds, is the nation's largest pediatric hospital. Its physicians treat infants, children, and adolescents, and its units specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of rare disorders. Almost all of the geographically based physicians at the hospital are members of the full-time faulty of Baylor. More than 40 medical and surgical outpatient services are available to children.
Texas Children's Hospital and its Integrated Delivery System of primary care and sub-specialist pediatricians, nurses, pharmacists, and other specialists have extended the hospital's care to more than 1.8 million patient visits annually. Facilities include the Gordon Emergency Center , 21 pediatric surgery suites, a 30-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, and a 56-bed Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Texas Children's Cancer Center, housed at the hospital, is one of the largest cancer research treatment centers in the country and includes a 36-bed inpatient unit and a 15-bed bone marrow transplant unit.
With Baylor , Texas Children's participates in approximately 400 research projects and receives more NIH research funding than any other pediatric hospital in the nation. Current projects include testing of medications to improve the quality of life for patients with HIV infection and AIDS, diagnostic methods based on DNA analysis for cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and other genetic disorders, development of treatments through human gene therapy and other basic and applied research studies. The two institutions operate the nation's first Children's Nutrition Research Center , a U.S. Department of Agriculture facility that conducts research on the nutritional needs of pregnant and nursing women and their children.
In 2004, Texas Children's Hospital will complete its $345 million expansion project, one of the nation's largest pediatric expansions. It includes a new 20-story inpatient facility, the West Tower and a 16-story Clinical Care Center for outpatient clinics. A $40 million renovation of the former outpatient facility, the Feigin Center , has rendered more than 200,000 feet of bench laboratory research space and houses more than 700 employees dedicated to pediatric research.