Dell Children’s: Pioneering Pediatric Care in Austin

Access to world-class pediatric care is life-changing for families facing serious medical conditions. Since 2007, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has invested over $61 million to make outstanding specialty care available close to home through Dell Children’s Medical Center.

Dell Children’s Medical Center is Austin’s first dedicated pediatric hospital and the region’s only pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center. It offers the largest range of pediatric specialty programs and procedures in Central Texas.

As the area continues to grow, Dell Children’s Medical Center has expanded to meet the rising need for advanced pediatric care by:

• Recruiting over 270 pediatric specialists who offer life-saving care in 39 areas like heart, brain, spine, and fetal care.
• Introducing a pediatric bone marrow transplant program in 2025, bringing one of the most complex forms of pediatric care to Central Texas.
• Establishing the region’s only Level 4 epilepsy center, providing patients with the highest level of diagnostic care and cutting-edge treatments.
• Opening a second campus in 2023, which in just one year treated over 15,500 emergency patients and performed more than 1,100 surgeries.
• Launching its outpatient specialty pavilion in 2021, providing access to advanced heart, brain, fetal, and cancer care in Central Texas.

Since its founding, Dell Children’s Medical Center has transformed the health and well-being of more than 1 million children and gained worldwide recognition, including these milestones:

• Earned a top-10 national ranking in pediatric heart care from U.S. News & World Report in 2025, climbing from unranked to top ten in less than 10 years.
• Ranked nationally in six additional specialties and named the No. 3 children’s hospital in Texas and the Southwest by U.S. News & World Report that same year.
• Completed 50 pediatric heart transplants in five years – including some of the world’s most cutting-edge procedures.
• Performed Central Texas’s first successful pediatric stem cell transplant in 2025, bringing advanced cancer care closer to home.

Together, these milestones reflect how far pediatric care in Central Texas has come — and how much closer world-class treatment is for families who need it most, with continued growth and innovation ahead.