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The lung transplant program is established. Patient Shari visits
Dr. George Mallory,
director of Texas Children's lung transplant program and associate
professor ofS 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, receives 90 grants totaling more than $33 million from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
2003
Texas
Children’s history-making expansion is completed, bringing total of
licensed beds to 715.
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Totally renovated in-patient floors include family-friendly rooms and
the latest in technological advances.
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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.
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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.
2004
Texas Children’s surgeons perform the first pediatric double-lung and
liver transplant in the southern and southwestern United States on a
13-year-old from Austin, Texas. The procedure is only the 20th in the
world to be performed on a patient of any age.
Texas Children’s Hospital, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital and Baylor
College of Medicine open the
Texas Center for Fetal SurgeryTM,
the first center in the Southwest to offer comprehensive diagnosis and
surgery for fetal disorders. The Texas Center for Fetal SurgeryTM
is one of only four in the nation and a handful in the world.
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Texas Children’s Hospital ranks among the
nation’s top 4 pediatric hospitals in U.S.News & World Report
and Child magazine surveys.
2005
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Texas Children’s partners with Children’s Miracle
Network.
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