Important Facts

• Medical City was founded in 1974 as a 367 bed hospital.
• Medical City Children's Hospital opened in 1996 - a hospital within a hospital offering world-class pediatric care.
• Medical City was awarded Magnet Recognition in December 2003 by the American Nurses Credentialing Center.  Of nearly 5,000 hospitals nationwide, Medical City was the 94th in the nation, the ninth in the state, and the first in North Texas to earn this recognition.  Re-designation was achieved in April 2008, which makes Medical City the first in North Texas to earn Magnet recognition twice.
• Medical City is undergoing a major $212 million expansion and renovation project that includes construction of a Critical Care Tower (opened 2006), a Pediatric Tower to house Medical City Children's Hospital (opening 2009).
• Medical City has two emergency areas, including a separate ER for pediatric patients.
• The Dallas Business Journal ranked Medical City first among "Best Places to Work" in 004 and second in the large company category in 2003.
• Medical City received the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility; this award honors employers nationally and locally for exemplary use of workplace flexibility to meet both business goals and employee needs.
• Medical City was listed in Texas Monthly as one of the "50 Best Companies to Work for in Texas" in 2006, ranking 15th in the state.
• Medical City earned the 2006 Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE); the state's highest honor for quality and organizational performance.
• The Dallas County Workforce System named Medical City the Outstanding Employer of 2002 and awarded them the Work Source Futures Excellence Award and the WorkSource Partner Award in 2003.  Medical City also received the 2003 Dallas Chamber Women's Covenant Award and was named the Top Employer in Dallas/Fort Worth for Family Friendly Workplace by Dallas Child Magazine.
• The ER at Medical City was the first nationally acclaimed Chest Pain Center in Dallas accredited by the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
• The Clinical Decision Unit, a unit of Medical City's Emergency Department, was recognized by the Health Care Advisory Board in Washington as Best Practice for Observation Medicine.
• Medical City Women's Services specialize in high-risk pregnancies and deliveries.
• Medical City also is active in many civic not-for-profit organizations, including service on the boards of the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, the American Heart Association, the Dallas/Fort Worth Hospital Council, the Dallas/Fort Worth Health Industry Council and the Associates Board of the Cox School of Business at SMU to name a few.
• Medical City was awarded Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) highest honors in 1991, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2004 and 2007.
• Medical City founded the Transplant Center in 1991.  The Heart Transplant Program, recognized by the Department of Health and Human Services as one of the top heart transplant programs in the country, is also one of the busiest and most successful programs in North Texas.  More than 350 hearts have been transplanted here since the program was founded.
• The Transplant Center was awarded 2002 top honors in the Client Choice Awards by the United Resource Networks, the largest transplant referral source in the United States, for their excellent care of transplant patients.
• Medical City, the only hospital in the Metroplex to offer adult and pediatric stem cell transplantation, is on of only a few hospitals nationwide to earn full accreditation in both adult and pediatric stem cell transplant services from the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).
• Medical City Children's Hospital has one of the top Craniofacial Programs in the world.  More than 15,000 procedures have been performed on children and adults from every states and 75 countries since the program was founded in 1985.
• Medical City Heart, a full-service cardiovascular program, was founded in 2000.  A Pediatric Congenital Heart Program was added in November 2003 and more than 100 procedures have been performed to date on critically ill newborns.
• Medical City was the first hospital in Southwest United States to perform open-heart bypass using robotic technology.
• Medical City hosted the first worldwide live internet broadcast of a beating heart surgery with opportunities for audience participation.
• A team of cardiac surgeons and cardiologists at Medical City were the first in the United States to perform trans-apical aortic valve replacement surgery using the Cribier-Edwards aortic bioprosthesis stented valve.
• Medical City Children's Hospital is a National Center for Coordinating Pediatric Nephrology Studies.
• Medical City Children's Hospital is the only non-university affiliated hospital for the Pediatric Oncology Group (studies on rare tumors).
• The medical research program at Medical City supports more than 260 research projects and includes studies funded by the National Institutes of Health and collaborative studies with major research institutions in the United States and abroad.  Medical City is one of only a handful of for-profit medical centers nationwide with an active research component.
• Medical City Children's Hospital has a specially trained 10-member Nurse Transport Team that has transported more than 8,000 critically ill children to the hospital using helicopter, fixed wing and ambulance.
• Medical City Imaging, an 11,000-square-foot, $21 million state-of-the-art outpatient imaging center, opened in Fall 2003.
• The Medical City Bariatric Program is a designated Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery.
• Medical City is an active member of the community.  Since 2000, the hospital has been a major sponsor for the American Heart Walk, American Diabetes Association, March of Dimes, Habitat for Humanity, Genesis Women's Shelter, ChildCareGroup, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the North Texas Food Bank.  Medical City and staff contributed in excess of $1 million to support these and many other charitable activities over the last seven years.