Scottish Rite for Children ranks No. 2 in the nation for pediatric orthopedic care according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 “Best Hospitals for Pediatric Orthopedics” rankings. This places Scottish Rite, yet again, at No. 1 for pediatric orthopedics in...
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Doctors Travel to Israel for International Pediatric Orthopedic Conference
Doctors from the hospital are attending the 38th annual European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (EPOS) meeting in Tel Aviv, Israel. EPOS is an international association comprised of over 500 surgeons from across the world. This four-day conference allows members to...
Get to Know our SRH Staff: Molly McGuire, Research
What is your role at the hospital? What do you do on a daily basis? My job involves working with teams of surgeon-researchers and coordinators all over the world to collect data about patients they treat for Perthes disease, a rare disease that impacts formation of...
#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: Overgrowth Related Syndromes
On this week's #SRHaccess Facebook LIVE, Director of the Center for Excellence in Hand Scott Oishi, M.D., joined us to discuss the hospital's expertise in caring for children diagnosed with overgrowth related syndromes. Below is a recap of the conversation. Watch the...
D CEO: Scottish Rite’s Frisco Facility is Open for Business
Read the original story on D CEO's website here. The Scottish Rite for Children Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center started accepting its first patients this week, and the entire building is a testament to movement and recovery. Color-coded floors, bands of shifting...
#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: Limb Lengthening – Intramedullary Lengthening
On this week’s Facebook live, Co-director of the Center for Excellence in Limb Lengthening David A. Podeszwa, M.D. joined us to discuss intramedullary lengthening – a form of treatment for our limb lengthening and reconstruction patients. Watch the Facebook live....
A Collaborative Research Program Advances Care for Children Diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy
At Scottish Rite Hospital, our team is dedicated to providing individualized, expert care to each child. The hospital’s Neurology department is focused on providing treatment to orthopedic patients who have related neuromuscular diseases and neurological disorders....
Scottish Rite Hospital Provides Multidisciplinary Care Through New NSP Clinic
At Scottish Rite Hospital, providing premier patient-centered care is at the forefront of our mission. Through the hospital’s six centers for excellence, our doctors and researchers collaborate to study the common to the complex of orthopedic conditions to find new...
Integrated Team Approach to Patient Care Shows Positive Results
At Scottish Rite Hospital, our experts are dedicated to caring for the whole child—mind, body, and spirit. The hospital includes six Centers for Excellence that each cultivate the mission of patient care, research, and education. Within those centers lies integrated...
Genetics Team Attends International Meeting in China
Staff from Scottish Rite Hospital travel near and far to participate in medical conferences to share their most recent research and learn from other experts in the field. Last week, members from our genetics research team were in Shenzhen and Guangzhou, China to...
D CEO: Scottish Rite Wins Texas Hospital Association Award for Reducing Surgical Site Infections
View original story on D CEO's website here. Dallas-based Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children won an award from the Texas Hospital Association for an initiative that reduced surgical site infection (SSI) rates among spinal fusion patients by 88 percent in 2016,...
Dallas Hospitals Collaborate for Annual Research Conference
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children is hosting the 2017 Clinical Research Conference: Building Clinical Research. This collaborative one-day meeting brings together research professionals from various institutions around the Dallas area, including Scottish Rite...
#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: What is a teaching hospital?
On this week’s Facebook live, Chief of Staff Emeritus Tony Herring, M.D. joined us to discuss what it means to be a teaching hospital and the history of our institution educating the doctors of the future. Below is the recap of the conversation. Watch this Facebook...
Improving Care with Patient Reported Outcome Measures
The goals for providers at Scottish Rite Hospital are to understand symptoms and concerns, develop the best action plan for treatment and to ensure that treatment is effective. We use standard questionnaires, called patient reported outcome measures (PROM), as tools...
A Wise Approach: Frisco Style
When Dr. Carol Wise looks at the thousands of specimen tubes that reside in the laboratory she oversees at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, she sees not only vials filled with important DNA samples, but also the patients and families behind them....
#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: The Future Frisco Campus
On this week’s Facebook live, Vice President of North Campus Jeremy Howell and Assistant Chief of Staff Philip L. Wilson, M.D. joined us to discuss the future Frisco campus. Below is a recap of the conversation. Watch this segment on Facebook. Construction update: The...
Hospital Staff Attend 33rd Annual Orthopaedic Trauma Association Meeting
Orthopedic staff from Scottish Rite Hospital are attending the 33rd annual Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Established in 1985, OTA now has over 2,000 members, including medical professionals in all areas of the world....
#SRHaccess Facebook LIVE Recap: MAGEC Rods
On this week’s Facebook live, Amy L. McIntosh, M.D. joined us to discuss MAGEC rods – an innovative treatment used for early onset scoliosis (EOS). Below is a recap of the conversation. What is a MAGEC rod? A MAGEC rod is a growing device technique used for patients...