Recent History and Developments
In 1999, Texas Children's Hospital launched the largest building project in Texas Medical Center History. The $345 million expansion project included a new 15-story inpatient addition to the existing West Tower; the development of the Clinical Care Center, a 17-floor outpatient center; and the renovation of the existing Feigin Center.
Texas Children's Hospital recently concluded the largest investment and program expansion ever by a single pediatric organization. Major projects included the development of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute (NRI), the opening of Texas Children's Pavilion for Women, the development of the Texas Children's Hospital West Campus, and the expansion of existing research facilities.
The NRI aims to increase the pace of discoveries by pioneering a multidisciplinary research approach to the complex challenge of understanding brain development and function. Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women brings together obstetricians, gynecologists, oncologists, surgeons, geneticists and nurses from Texas Children’s Hospital and its academic partner Baylor College of Medicine. Texas Children's Hospital West Campus is greater Houston's first suburban hospital designed exclusively for children.
The hospital was the site of the first fatal U.S. case of the 2009 swine flu outbreak, a child visiting from Mexico City.
The towers of the hospital were designed by the Houston firm FKP Architects.
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