Located in the Southwestern Medical District in the heart of Dallas, Children's Medical Center Dallas is home to the only academic health care system in North Texas that is dedicated exclusively to the comprehensive care of children from birth to age 18. Children's Health℠ is one of the largest and most prestigious pediatric health care providers in the country and the leading pediatric health system in North Texas.
The Dallas campus, like all of our locations, has been built with patients and visitors in mind. In addition to care tailored especially for children, it offers families and visitors the services and support they need. The campus includes the tranquil Haggerty Chapel, a cafeteria with multiple dining options, family resource libraries, a coffee shop, ATMs and a full-service gift shop. Services such as child life, service excellence, pastoral care and social work help families cope with the issues and concerns that come with having a child in the hospital.
Coming 2031: A new home for pediatric care in Dallas
Children’s Health, together with UT Southwestern, announced plans to build one of the nation’s largest and most transformative new children’s hospitals in Dallas’ Southwestern Medical District. Once complete, this nearly two-million-square-foot hospital will replace the existing Children’s Medical Center Dallas. Learn more about our growth.
Since our humble beginnings in 1913 as a “baby camp,” we have had a long-standing commitment to our community that includes not only high-quality patient care but also advocacy, education and preventive care with an unwavering focus on our mission. More than 110 years later, Children’s Health has grown to become the only academic health care system in North Texas dedicated exclusively to the care of children from birth to adulthood through our 60-year affiliation with a world-class medical school and research institute at UT Southwestern.
Children and families facing complex medical conditions travel from all over the world to visit our Dallas campus, which includes Children’s Medical Center Dallas, one of the top pediatric hospitals in the nation.
By the numbers*
|
Patient Visits
(Unique patients)
|
545,776
(169,665)
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| Emergency Room visits |
96,253 |
| Surgeries |
16,472 |
| Employees |
5,287 |
| Licensed beds |
490 |
| Square Feet |
1.89 million |
*Numbers as of December 31, 2023
Campus and facilities
- Two-story, 50,000-square-foot Emergency Department, the only pediatric Level I Trauma Center in North Texas
- 47-bed Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- State-of-the-art Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
- Level I Children's Surgery Center, designated by the American College of Surgeons
- Integrated Therapy Unit with a comprehensive unique model of care for inpatient feeding, pulmonary and rehabilitation
- The only pediatric heart transplant program in North Texas. In 2023, our teams performed 36 heart transplants, the most for a pediatric system
- Leaders in pediatric transplants, having performed the states first combined heart-liver transplant
- The only dedicated pediatric sleep center accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine in Dallas
- On-site Children’s Health PM Pediatric Urgent Care
- Extensive Social Work, Child Life and Pet Therapy programs
- Advanced simulation laboratory used to train care teams on complex patient scenarios
- Comprehensive outpatient behavioral health treatment and services
- Children’s Health Specialty Center Dallas Campus, a six-story facility with a wide array of outpatient services in one convenient location
Expanding to help more kids in more places
North Texas is facing unprecedented growth, and our pediatric population is expected to double by 2050. To meet this growth and care for future generations of children, Children’s Health is partnering with UT Southwestern to build a transformative new campus to replace the existing Children’s Medical Center Dallas. The $5 billion dollar campus will be a hub of research, education and innovation. It will be a destination for leading-edge patient care, emerging treatments and provide the infrastructure to transform health care for the region and nation’s most complex pediatric patients.
Learn more: childrens.com/watchusgrow.
Our new pediatric campus will include:
- Three towers, including two 12-story towers and one eight-story tower
- 4.5 million square feet of constriction space
- Two helicopter pads
- 552 inpatient rooms (38% increase) with space for future expansion
- 122 pre-/post-operative rooms
- Two-story surgical suite with 20 operating rooms
- 6,000+ parking spaces
- A comprehensice Fetal Care Center
- Largest Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in Dallas
- Increased Emergency Department space (15%) and operating rooms (22%)
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