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Information
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Contact Texas Children's
Kangaroo Crew
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Transport of a patient to Texas
Children's Hospital on Kangaroo Crew must be requested by a
physician.
If your baby needs specialized care, be
sure to ask your physician about transport by Kangaroo Crew to Texas
Children's Hospital.
The Kangaroo Crew referral line is
operated 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
for more information call
832-824-5550. |
When your child needs special
care, trust Kangaroo Crew to bring him or her to Texas Children's
Hospital. Even before your child arrives at Texas Children's, our
highly skilled staff is hard at work to be sure a treatment plan is
formulated as
soon as your doctor calls.
Each Kangaroo Crew transport carries the highest level of
neonatology expertise available. A specially trained
neonatal/pediatric transport nurse and a specially trained
neonatal/pediatric transport respiratory therapist. If needed, a
neonatal nurse practitioner, or a neonatalogist will accompany the
team..
Kangaroo Crew is the only hospital-to-hospital pediatric transport service
that brings your child to Texas Children's Hospital, the largest
pediatric hospital in the country. Here you'll find:
- The country's largest
Newborn
Center and Level 3 nursery
- An exceptional Pediatric Intensive
Care Unit
- World-class expertise in pediatric
cardiology, congenital heart surgery and
more than 40 subspecialties
- Texas Children’s physicians are
faculty members at Baylor College of Medicine, one of the
nation’s leading institutions
At Texas Children's Hospital, we
know it can be difficult when your baby or child is hospitalized. To
support families, we offer the following:
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Lactation Program and Mother's Own
Milk Bank
- Ronald McDonald House on site
- Family Vision, a program which
allows real-time video observation of your child and interaction
with his or her health team, is available at select
referring hospitals
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