El Paso Children's Hospital

El Paso Children's Hospital is the only not-for-profit Children's Hospital to service over 350 miles of the southwest region. Our programs not only help improve Children's health outcomes, but give physicians and providers the resources to care for the growing number of children in El Paso county who are 17 years old and under - 230,000 at last count. The Hospital provides pediatric inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services. We are certified by the Children's oncology group. This membership makes it possible for us to provide the same treatments as any of the most prestigious Children's hospitals in the nation. We are also one of only seven Texas hospitals with a level iv neonatal intensive care unit ("nicu") designation. This state designation recognizes and allows the Hospital to provide the highest level of nicu services to our patients. Through the Hospital's affiliation with Texas tech university health science center, the Hospital conducts pediatric research and education, and serves as a teaching Hospital for the Texas tech residency program. El Paso Children's Hospital also works in close partnership with the El Paso county Hospital district d/b/a university medical center of El Paso ("umc"). The two hospitals are co-located and on the same larger campus with Texas tech university health sciences center. El Paso Children's Hospital serves as a Hospital district management contractor of umc, playing a vital role in the healthcare safety net through the provision of pediatric specialty health care services that benefit the indigent, uninsured, and underinsured pediatric population in El Paso county on behalf of umc. The Hospital is committed to providing services to low-income individuals who are neither entitled to benefits under medicare nor eligible for assistance under medicaid. The Hospital has Texas medicaid healthcare partnership (tmhp) personnel located in the building to ensure that every eligible patient is enrolled in chip-texas which is specifically legislated to provide medicaid-like coverage to children even if their parents do not qualify. The large majority of children can be enrolled in some type of government program. As a result, only a very few cases remain in the traditional category of charity. Those patients remaining in a charity classification are provided free or reduced charges per written El Paso Children's Hospital policy. The Hospital's development approach was reevaluated in 2022 as people returned to their offices. It was a year of recovery for all of us. This meant reconnecting with physicians and other partners. The Hospital brought in six new, highly specialized providers. This was a big win for both the Hospital and our patients. The Hospital invested over ten million dollars in 2022 in capital investments for new equipment. Some of the key statistics for 2022 include: -759 employees -450 credential medical staff -4,357 admissions -average daily census of 66.6 -24,294 patient days -27,347 emergency department visits -5,068 operations and procedures (surgical and endoscopy) -60,010 outpatient visits