In 2013, state legislators passed a bill that required the Department of Health and Human Services to rate the ability of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU) to care for critically ill newborns here in Texas.
After the hospitals apply for a certain level of care, ranging from more or less healthy premature babies in Level I to babies who need life support in Level IV, a team from the American Academy of Pediatrics or Texas Perinatal Services, a division of the nonprofit Texas EMS, Trauma & Acute Care Foundation, visits the hospitals and gives their rating recommendation rating to the state.
AAP site visitors look at a number of measures, from the amount of subspecialists on duty to the ability to perform operations quickly and effectively. Here is how the NICUs in North Texas’ four largest counties were rated. The statewide list is here.
If you want to learn more about the process of rating NICUs, read this.
Collin County
Level IV:
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano
Level III:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center McKinney
- Medical City Plano
Level II:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center Centennial
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Frisco
- Medical City McKinney
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen
Dallas County
Level IV:
- Children’s Medical Center of Dallas
- Medical City Dallas Hospital
Level III:
- Baylor University Medical Center
- Methodist Dallas Medical Center
- Methodist Richardson Medical Center
- Parkland Memorial Hospital
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas
- William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital
Level II:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Irving
- Methodist Charlton Medical Center
- City Hospital at White Rock
- Medical City Las Colinas
Level I:
- Dallas Regional Medical Center
Denton County
Level III:
- Medical City Lewisville
Level II:
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Denton
- Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Flower Mound
Tarrant County
Level IV:
- Cook Children’s Medical Center
Level III:
- Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center – Fort Worth
- John Peter Smith Hospital
- Medical City Alliance
- Medical City Arlington
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Grapevine
- Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth
Level II:
- Methodist Mansfield Medical Center
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Alliance
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth
- Texas Health Harris Methodist Hurst-Euless-Bedford
