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 > 2002
Texas Children's
Pediatric Lung Transplant Program is established. Patient Shari visits
Dr. George Mallory,
director of Texas Children's lung transplant program and associate
professor of pediatrics at
Baylor College of Medicine.
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When
Governor Rick Perry visits the hospital to dedicate the new buildings,
he pauses to make bubbles with patients.
The $80-million Building for Children campaign is successfully completed.
Baylor
College of Medicine’s pediatric department, located at Texas
Children’s, ranks number one in funding from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH) for the fifth consecutive year. Ninety
grants, for a total of more than $33 million, were awarded.
 
2003
Texas
Children’s history-making expansion is completed, bringing total of
licensed beds to 715.
> Texas
Children’s is named among nation’s
top five pediatric hospitals by
US News and World Report and Child Magazine.
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Totally renovated in-patient floors include family-friendly rooms and
the latest in technological advances.
 < Lobby
areas in the new Clinical Care Center include brightly colored play
forms, high ceilings and plenty of light.
New
Ronald McDonald House opens on the fourth floor of the
Abercrombie building
with 20 sleep rooms available to families with children in the
pediatric intensive care unit
(PICU) and neonatal
Level II nursery.
 > Texas Children’s
Nursing
Service achieves prestigious
Magnet Recognition, becoming one of 67
Magnet hospitals in the nation. Only three other Texas Medical Center
institutions have achieved this distinction.
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