Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital

About Our Hospital

For 25 years, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital has been providing quality healthcare for women, children and teens.  We are a tertiary care facility with 240 beds for pediatric patients and an additional 68 beds in our Women’s Center.  Through our unique collaboration with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School, we offer our patients and families a comprehensive level of care and access to state-of-the-art technology and research, the most advanced treatment therapies and highly specialized surgeries unavailable at other hospitals.

Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital provides a high level of excellence in pediatric trauma medicine and was the first to receive the Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center designation in the Gulf Coast Region.  Additionally, we provide comprehensive expertise and services in epileptology, neurosurgery, cardiovascular surgery, general surgery, plastic surgery, otolaryngology, neonatal intensive care and women’s services.

What Makes the Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital Special?

• Comprehensive women’s program including specialized gynecology services and maternal-fetal medicine specialists for high-risk pregnancies
• National leadership in diagnosis and treatment of abnormalities in unborn and newborn infants including fetal intervention and fetal surgery at our Texas Fetal Center
• Full range of expertise in our Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for babies born prematurely (as early as 23 weeks) or for babies with congenital birth defects, infection, metabolic problems or other medical and surgical needs
• Renowned pediatric programs in cardiovascular surgery, epileptology, general surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, pulmonology,  neurosurgery, transplantation, and trauma
• One of only six organizations in the world to receive the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization’s Award for Excellence in Life Support for 2006-2008 and earning global recognition as a “Designated Center of Excellence” by the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization for 2010 through 2012
• Access to more than 120 research studies and clinical trials in the areas of neonatology, pediatrics and women’s services.
• As one of 14 member hospitals in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network, CMHH  provides access to state of the art clinical trials and research aimed at improving outcomes for high-risk mothers and their infants.
• A dedicated pediatric emergency center and the largest level I trauma center in Houston fully equipped to treat pediatric patients
• Specialized emergency pediatric and neonatal transport services, equipment and personnel through the Children’s Transport Team, ensuring that critical patients all over the region are transferred quickly and safely to CMHH by ground or air ambulance
• Child Life specialists working to make each child’s healthcare experience less frightening by explaining to children what to expect during hospitalization or how to cope with the illness or injury of a family member
• Ronald McDonald House on site to service families of patients in the pediatric and neonatal intensive care units, creating a comfortable “home away from home” environment that includes Internet service, refreshments, books, games and other services

Founded in 1925, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center (TMC) was the first hospital to open in the world-renowned Texas Medical Center. For nearly a century, the hospital has set new standards of care in Texas and the nation through advances in the practice of medicine.

As the primary teaching hospital for The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Memorial Hermann provides exceptional care in heart, neuroscience, orthopedics, women's health, general surgery and organ transplantation.

As one of only two certified Level I trauma centers in the greater Houston area, the hospital provides 24-hour emergency and trauma care to more than 40,000 patients a year. Memorial Hermann Life Flight® air ambulance service operates a fleet of three helicopters, providing emergency rescue and air transport services to a multi-county area.

The 165,000-square-foot Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute-TMC offers the latest innovations in cardiology programs and treatment.

The new Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza, a 30-story medical office building, supports the Institute and other services with additional physician office space, an Ambulatory Care Center and two floors dedicated to retail shops, services and restaurants.

Memorial Hermann-TMC also offers wireless Internet access in the Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza, with plans to add it throughout the hospital in early 2008.