About the Partnership

Baylor College of Medicine Affiliation

Texas Children’s Hospital has long been affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine, joining forces with this leading medical school in the areas of pediatrics, pediatric surgery and obstetrics and gynecology to achieve healthier mothers and children.

Texas Children's Hospital is an internationally recognized children's hospital and the primary pediatric training site for Baylor College of Medicine, which has one of the largest pediatric residency programs in the country. Baylor faculty also are the service chiefs and staff physicians of Texas Children’s. Texas Children’s is ranked in all ten subspecialties in U.S. News & World Report’s list of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals and earned a top spot in Parents magazine's 10 Best Children's Hospitals.

With our shared commitment to improving maternal and pediatric outcomes through research, education and health care, we are creating a healthier, brighter future for children and women around the world.

Research

Ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s top 25 medical schools for research, Baylor College of Medicine is known for advancing the health of women, children and families through scientific discovery.

Baylor faculty conduct basic, translational and clinical research focused on improving the health of children. Texas Children's houses several outstanding research entities run by Baylor faculty, including the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, the Texas Children's Center for Vaccine Development and the Texas Children's Cancer Center.

Funding awarded to Baylor by the NIH, as reported by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, reflects the depth and breadth of the college’s research enterprise, and the progress being made. Highlights in 2023 include:

• More than $420 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health to Baylor, including sub-awards from other institutions for BCM FY23
• No. 20 – Baylor's rank among U.S. medical schools in direct NIH funding for federal FY23
• No. 1 – Baylor's rank among Texas medical schools in direct NIH funding for federal FY23 (Baylor has ranked first in Texas since at least 1992)
• Ranked No. 3 in pediatric research funding

Through our collaboration with Baylor physicians and researchers across hundreds of projects, we are continually improving treatments and outcomes for our young patients.

Education

For more than 60 years, Texas Children’s Hospital has served as Baylor College of Medicine’s primary pediatric training site, creating the next generation of leaders in pediatric care.

As the largest pediatric hospital in the nation, providing medical care across more than 40 pediatric subspecialties, Texas Children’s offers a rich learning environment for Baylor’s medical students, residents and fellows. Texas Children's also serves as a primary referral site for some of the world’s most challenging pediatric patients, providing these Baylor learners an opportunity to routinely care for patients with conditions rarely seen in most training programs.

Medical student rotations and residency program training at Texas Children’s include general medical and surgical inpatient services, subspecialty inpatient services, gynecology, obstetrics, nurseries, neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, an intermediate care unit and the outpatient and emergency departments. The various facilities also offer longitudinal assignments that provide opportunities for residents to follow a panel of patients during their three years of training.

The two institutions operate the Children's Nutrition Research Center, a U.S. Department of Agriculture facility that conducts research on the nutritional needs of pregnant and nursing women and their children.

Health Care

Staffed primarily by Baylor College of Medicine physicians, Texas Children’s provides medical care in more than 40 pediatric subspecialties. Texas Children's facilities include the Emergency Center, pediatric surgery suites, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Texas Children's Cancer Center is one of the largest pediatric cancer and hematology research and treatment centers in the country and includes an inpatient unit and a bone marrow/stem cell transplant unit.

Within the Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, Baylor physicians provide continuum of care from preconception through post-delivery as well as specialized services in high-risk obstetrics, including a full spectrum of fetal therapies available in only a handful of centers worldwide.

Together, We Are Changing More Lives

Highlights from the long and productive history of collaboration between Baylor and Texas Children’s include:

• The creation of the Emergency Medical Services for Children Innovation and Improvement Center to enhance pediatric emergency medical services in the U.S., both in the pre-hospital and hospital settings, improving outcomes for children in need of urgent or emergency care.
• The Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Texas Children’s Hospital (BIPAI), a pioneering program to improve global pediatric health by providing high-quality, high-impact and highly ethical pediatric and family HIV/AIDS care and treatment, health care education and clinical research in resource-limited settings.
• The Texas Children’s Center for Global Health, focused on addressing major causes of diseases and conditions impacting pediatric health and survival globally, such as tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition and cancer, changing the outlook for children affected by life-threatening but treatable diseases.
• Joint operation of The Children’s Nutrition Research Center, a U.S. Department of Agriculture facility that conducts research on the nutritional needs of pregnant and nursing women and their children to improve the health of future generations.
• Collaborative membership in NIH’s Undiagnosed Diseases Network, a national network of clinicians and scientists established to help address the most rare and difficult-to-solve medical cases from around the country and develop effective approaches to diagnose them.
• The Network of Practice in Health Sciences Scholarship, a consortium of Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and the Baylor College of Medicine children’s foundations in nine countries across Eastern Europe, Latin America and Africa.