Best Pediatric Hospital in Texas?

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I'm from maryland, and am a new nurse working in Washington DC on a general medicine floor. However my dream job is a pediatrics unit/hospital, and I keep hearing great things about Texas. What are some of the top Pediatric Hospitals (or hospitals with a peds unit)?

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Specializes in AA&I, research,peds, radiation oncology.

Children's Medical Center in Dallas, TX and Cook Childrens' Medical Center in Ft. Worth, TX are the two that I am most familiar with. Children's Medical Center is ranked among #1 hospitals in the nation!!! HTH:D

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Christus Santa Rosa and Methodist Children's in San Antonio are also both very good.

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How about Texas CHildren's Hospital in Houston?

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Dell Children's Hospital is a beautiful new facility in Austin, TX, considered an excellent hospital.

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Dell Children's is great but very small, and they rarely hire at all. you might have a chance though, having experience but the hiring people there only hire to replace people anymore.

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Specializes in School Nursing.
Children's Medical Center in Dallas, TX and Cook Childrens' Medical Center in Ft. Worth, TX are the two that I am most familiar with. Children's Medical Center is ranked among #1 hospitals in the nation!!! HTH:D

I second both of these. The Diabetes/Endocrine dept and Cook's is stellar.

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Specializes in trauma ICU,TNCC, NRP, PALS, ACLS.

Children's medical center in dallas and texas childrens in houston is among the top 10 pediatric hospitals in the nation.

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Specializes in NICU.

Christus Santa Rosa in San Antonio is great!

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I've worked at Cook Children's in Ft Worth for 10yrs, and I can definitely say it is the top peds hospital in Texas!

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Specializes in IR.

oops i don't know how to delete that other post but here's what I meant to put:

Both Texas Children's Hospital and Children's Medical Center made the honor roll in the US News & World Report rankings. The honor roll meant that the hospital ranked in each of the 10 specialties (only 10 out of 160 hospitals made the list).

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/best-childrens-hospitals/2009/06/17/best-childrens-hospitals-honor-roll.html

Go to the bottom of the page and click on the hospital you want to see and they'll show where each specialty ranked.

I work at TCH and it's been such a great experience for me so far. And I must say our individual rankings are far higher than Childrens Medical =)

Good luck with your choice!

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