Texas Children’s expands its subspecialty, therapy services to Kingwood

February 17, 2015

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Quality is key, but convenience also plays a big part in the decision-making process when parents are looking for subspecialty and therapy services. That’s why Texas Children’s works hard to make such services convenient to families throughout the greater Houston area.

The organization’s most recent efforts focus on Kingwood, where Texas Children’s Specialty Care at Kingwood Glen opened January 5, and Texas Children’s Hospital Outpatient Therapy at Kingwood Glen and Texas Children’s Hospital Sports Medicine Therapy at Kingwood Glen opened in October.

Texas Children’s Specialty Care at Kingwood Glen offers medical services in cardiology, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery and pulmonary medicine. The specialty center also offers diagnostic services in cardiac echosonography, EKG/Holter/Event Monitors, pulmonary function testing, X-ray and ultrasound. Orthopedics, urology and point-of-care testing will be offered in the late spring or early summer.

Staffed by pediatric specialists from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, the 4,874-square-foot facility at the corner of Farm to Market Road 1960 and West Lake Houston Parkway in Humble has six exam rooms, an X-ray room, a casting room and a lab. The Specialty Care Center at Kingwood Glen joins four existing Health Centers in the greater Houston area. Those centers are strategically located in Clear Lake, Cy-Fair, Sugar Land and The Woodlands. Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus Outpatient Services also offers outpatient specialty services.

“The hospital is excited to have dedicated, physical space for pediatric specialty services in the northeast area of greater Houston,” said Diane Scardino, vice president of medical subspecialty practices and the Health Centers at Texas Children’s. “By providing a community-based location, it is our hope that children and families will have better access to the nationally recognized Texas Children’s Hospital subspecialty network.”

Texas Children’s Hospital Outpatient Therapy at Kingwood Glen and the Texas Children’s Hospital Sports Medicine Therapy at Kingwood Glen occupy a 12,666- square-foot space in the same strip mall as the specialty care center. Therapy services offered at the locations include physical, occupational and speech therapy as well as orthopedic and sports medicine therapy. Women’s health therapy services will soon be offered at the sports medicine location.

Staff at the therapy and specialty care locations work together to provide the most comprehensive care to Texas Children’s patients and join a network of community-based initiatives that serve the greater Houston area.

“We are thrilled to also bring dedicated therapy services to the community,” said Tabitha Rice, senior vice president for clinical support services. “Many of our patients require therapy multiple times per week, so having access to these services so close to home makes a significant difference for the families we serve.”

Jamie and Jeremy Platt use Texas Children’s network of subspecialty and therapy services often and are grateful they exist.

The couple takes their 2-year-old son, Logan, to Texas Children’s Health Center in Cy-Fair twice a week for physical therapy and once a week for speech, language, feeding and occupational therapy. They also visit the health center regularly for either an X-ray, a consult or a follow-up. Most recently, they came for an ultrasound.

“It is such a relief to be so close and have a health center right around the corner from our house,” Jamie Platt said. “There have been times where I’ve forgotten either medical equipment or a device or something that I need to bring in for Logan and I’ve been halfway there. I have time to turn around, go back home and get it, and come and still make our appointment right on time.”

In addition to convenience, Jeremy Platt said the health center offers superb care and that the staff at the center has helped Logan do things he and his wife never thought he could do, such as walk, talk and eat on his own.

“He loves doing what he’s doing here,” Jeremy said. “It’s like a kid getting to go to school.”