Texas Children’s
Hospital
West Campus
- By 2010, Texas Children’s Hospital will be one of the largest suburban pediatric medical centers in the nation. It will sit on a 55-acre tract in West Houston, at I-10 and Barker-Cypress.
- The hospital will be licensed for 96 intermediate and acute beds, an emergency center, inpatient and outpatient operating rooms, an ambulatory care facility, diagnostic imaging, physical medicine and rehabilitation services, medical subspecialty care and physician office space.
- The creation of the West Houston hospital is a direct response to real need for the highest quality pediatric care in the area. Research estimates as many as 400,000 children are underserved by pediatric medical care in a broad area stretching from Sugar
Land to Bryan-College Station.
- Expansion will address the growing need to alleviate emergency room overcrowding by providing immediate access to care at the community level.
- Texas Children’s Hospital is following the growth of the community. Research projects explosive population will make West Houston the epicenter of Houston by the year 2010 (an estimated
51 percent of pediatric population growth between 2000 and 2015).
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Texas Children’s breaks new ground
Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus is Houston’s
first community hospital just for kids.
News Release
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