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Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital (CMHH) is a nationally ranked women's and pediatric acute care
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located in
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,
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. The hospital has 234 pediatric beds and 76 beds for women. CMHH is affiliated with the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School at
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and is a part of the
Memorial Hermann Health System Memorial Hermann Health System is the largest not-for-profit health system in southeast Texas and consists of 17 hospitals, 8 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other ...
. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens, and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Houston and surrounding regions. Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital also sometimes treats adults that require pediatric care. CMHH also features an
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designated Level 1 Pediatric Trauma Center, 1 of 5 in the state. The hospital is located within the vast
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About

Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital is located inside Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center and is a member institution of the
Children's Hospital Association The Children's Hospital Association (CHA), is an organization of children's hospitals with more than 200 members in the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Mexico and Puerto Rico. CHA has offices located in Lenexa, Kansas Lenexa is a ...
. It houses one of the nation's largest neonatal intensive care units (
NICU A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. Neonatal refers to the first 28 days of life. Neonatal care, as kn ...
s) and is one of only two Level IV NICUs in Southeast Texas. The NICU at Children's Memorial Hermann treats more than 1,000 premature infants each year. The hospital is nationally recognized for The Fetal Center, a subspecialty center made up of maternal-fetal medicine specialists that perform
in utero surgery Fetal surgery also known as antenatal surgery, prenatal surgery, is a growing branch of maternal-fetal medicine that covers any of a broad range of surgical techniques that are used to treat congenital abnormalities in fetuses who are still in ...
to treat fetuses with birth defects inside the mother's womb before they are born. Affiliated physicians performed the first in utero
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surgery in Texas after the
MOMS trial The MOMS Trial was a clinical trial that studied treatment of a birth defect called ''myelomeningocele'', which is the most severe form of spina bifida. The study looked at prenatal (before birth) and postnatal (after birth) surgery to repair this ...
, an NICHD-sponsored study of prenatal and postnatal closure of
myelomeningocele Spina bifida (Latin for 'split spine'; SB) is a birth defect in which there is incomplete closing of the spine and the membranes around the spinal cord during early development in pregnancy. There are three main types: spina bifida occulta, men ...
.


Patient care units

The hospital has a variety of patient care units to care for pediatric patients from 0-21, and women requiring
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or
gynecological Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined a ...
care. * 30-bed pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) * 38-bed neonatal special care nursery * 90-bed neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) * 76-bed general pediatrics * 73-bed women's/obgyn


Ronald McDonald House

The hospital has a Ronald McDonald House located within the hospital that has 14 rooms for families of children that are in the PICU and the NICU. The house originally opened in 2007 on the 7th and 9th floors, and is affiliated with the Ronald McDonald House of Houston. In addition to the house located within the hospital, CHMM families can stay at the nearby 70-bedroom Holcombe House.


Awards

On the 2018-19 ''U.S. News & World Report: Best Children's Hospitals'' rankings CMHH ranked as #45 in Pediatric Cardiology & Heart Surgery and #41 in pediatric neurology and heart surgery. The hospital was ranked nationally in two pediatric specialties on the 2020-21 '' U.S. News & World Report: Best Children's Hospitals''. The hospital ranked #22 in pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, and #31 in pediatric neurology and heart surgery. In addition, CMHH is ranked as the #3 best children's hospital in Texas behind Texas Children's Hospital and
Children's Medical Center Dallas Children's Medical Center Dallas is a nationally ranked pediatric acute care teaching hospital located in Dallas, Texas, USA. The hospital has 496 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. It provide ...
.


See also

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University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is a public academic health science center in Houston, Texas, United States. It was created in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents. It is located in the T ...
* Texas Children's Hospital *
Texas Medical Center The Texas Medical Center (TMC) is a medical district and neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States, immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. Over 60 medical institutions, largely concentrat ...
*
List of children's hospitals in the United States A children's hospital is a medical facility that offers its services exclusively to children and adolescents. Most children's hospitals can serve children from birth up to the age of 21. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th ...


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