The hospital has pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. It provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens and young adults aged 0β21 [ 2 ] throughout Texas and surrounding regions.
It sometimes treats adults who require pediatric care as well. It has an ACS designated level 1 pediatric trauma center , one of five in Texas.
Children's Medical Center Dallas is the main hospital campus of Children's Health , the only academic healthcare system in Dallas-Fort Worth dedicated solely to the comprehensive care of children from birth to age Children's Health started with just the Dallas location, but has grown to include Children's Medical Center Plano as well as several other pediatric specialty, primary care and urgent care centers located throughout North Texas.
It is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US. Children's Medical Center Dallas traces its origins to summer , when a group of nurses organized an open-air clinic on the lawn of the old Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The original clinic was known as the Dallas Baby Camp and treated infants up to age 3. The nurses recognized that children received better care when it was focused only on them.
In , administrative structures strengthened and the new campus was opened at its current location. In , it expanded into Children's Health, a system dedicated to providing all types of care for children, as well as public education about health and wellness, across its several hospitals, specialty centers and pediatric clinics throughout North Texas. Located at Medical District Drive in the Southwestern Medical District of Dallas, the hospital is licensed for beds and recorded more than , patient encounters in It has 16 large, technologically advanced operating rooms, a bed level 4 neonatal intensive care unit and offers expertise in more than 50 pediatric specialties and the highest level of trauma care in North Texas as a pediatric level I trauma center.
