Texas Children's Hospital


Texas Children's Hospital is a nationally ranked freestanding 724-bed, pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Houston, Texas. It is affiliated with the Baylor College of Medicine and is located within the Texas Medical Center. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Texas and features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center. Its regional pediatric intensive-care unit and neonatal intensive care units serve the Southern United States region and also has programs to serve children from around the world. With 724 beds, it is the largest children's hospital in the United States.
U.S. News & World Report ranked Texas Children's Hospital #4 amongst 200 pediatric hospitals in the nation for ten consecutive years and #3 in 2019-20.
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Rankings and recognition

The 2019–2020 edition of U.S. News & World Report recognized Texas Children's Hospital as among the top 3 children's hospitals in the United States. Texas Children’s Hospital is 1 of 10 hospitals 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 national rankings for each subspecialty area for 2019–2020 are:
In 2021 the hospital was ranked as the #4 best children's hospital in the United States by U.S. News and World Report on the publications' honor roll list.

Notable people

Physicians-in-Chief