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Children's Hospital

Texas Children's Hospital celebrates 50 years
Fact Sheet

Happy Birthday, Texas Children’s

  • Texas Children’s Hospital celebrates its 50th birthday in February 2004. Throughout the year, Texas Children’s will host various events to mark 50 years of children’s healthcare. Employee celebrations, a community birthday party and patient events at its satellite clinics are just a few of the events planned.

  • Texas Children’s officially was dedicated on May 15, 1953. At that time, the hospital had three stories and 106 beds. When it opened, the closest children’s hospital was two days away by train.

  • Today, Texas Children’s is the largest pediatric hospital in the nation, and has more than 2 million patient encounters annually.

About Texas Children’s

  • As the nation’s largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children’s is renowned for its expertise and breakthrough developments in the treatment of cancer, premature infants, cardiogenic disorders, diabetes, asthma, HIV/AIDS and attention-related disorders.

  • Texas Children’s is affiliated with and is the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Baylor College of Medicine, one of the nation’s top medical schools.

  • Texas Children’s participates with Baylor in approximately 400 research projects annually and receives more NIH research funding than any other pediatric hospital in the nation.

  • Texas Children’s medical staff consists of more than 1,625 board-certified, primary-care physicians, pediatric subspecialists, pediatric-surgical subspecialists and dentists. In addition, Texas Children’s offers a highly skilled nursing and support staff of more than 7,000.

  • Child magazine named Texas Children’s the No. 4 pediatric hospital in the nation, and U.S. News & World Report ranked it No. 5.

  • In addition to the main hospital, the Texas Children’s Integrated Delivery System includes Texas Children’s Pediatric Associates (TCPA), a network of more than 140 primary care pediatricians in 44 practices in the Houston area. The hospital also operates six Texas Children’s Health Centers® throughout the city.