Latest Texas Children's Pavilion Stories
Generosity furthers mental health treatment and research initiatives at The Women's Place - Center for Reproductive Psychiatry HOUSTON, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today Texas Children's Hospital announced the establishment of the Maureen Hackett Endowed Chair for Reproductive Psychiatry with a $2 million gift from Houston philanthropists, Maureen and Jim Hackett. The endowed chair will benefit The Women's Place - Center for Reproductive Psychiatry at Texas Children's...
HOUSTON, March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Pavilion for Women today marks one year since it transitioned its labor and delivery services into the new $575-million facility, signaling the pediatric hospital's major expansion into obstetrics and gynecological care with a special focus on high-risk pregnancies and multiple births. Drawing from decades of OB/GYN experience, Texas Children's experts contributed to many first-year milestones including...
HOUSTON, Sept. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Leah Perkins, the final sextuplet and also the smallest, made a special homecoming late yesterday afternoon as she was discharged from Texas Children's Pavilion for Women after a 4 ½ month stay in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Parents Lauren and David Perkins took Leah home to join her five brothers and sisters. The hospital also announced that doctors delivered its first quintuplets of the year on Friday, Sept. 7 at Texas...
Hospital provides access to human milk as an alternative to formula for newborns needing supplemental feeding. HOUSTON, Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, one of the nation's premier facilities for women's, fetal and newborn health, is now offering pasteurized donor breast milk to breastfeeding mothers of healthy newborns who need supplementation during the important early days of the baby's life. For a variety of medical...
Multidisciplinary effort to save babies' hearts before birth brings families hope HOUSTON, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The team at Texas Children's Fetal Center, a national leader for treating fetal anomalies, has successfully completed two in-utero fetal cardiac interventions to treat hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a congenital heart defect that is one of the most complex heart defects to treat. The first center in the Southwest to create a program to treat this...
Experts to Provide Insights, First Images of Newborns HOUSTON, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The world's newest parents of sextuplets, Lauren and David Perkins, spoke publically today for the first time about the birth of their sextuplets ten days ago at Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, one of the nation's premier facilities for women's, fetal and newborn health. The couple was joined by hospital experts who provided additional medical background on the delivery and care...
HOUSTON, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Texas Children's Hospital announced the start of labor and delivery services and the arrival of its first baby, a healthy boy, at its landmark new facility, Texas Children's Pavilion for Women. The nationally-ranked children's hospital has now fully expanded into obstetrical and gynecological care with the completion of its 15-story, $575-million state-of-the-art hospital which is staffed, designed and equipped to be among the nation's...
