Location: Southwest of downtown Houston

Type: Emergent Care,Hospital

Specialties: Pediatrics,Heart,Orthopaedic,Neurology,General Surgery

Comments: doors in 1919. As a private, adult teaching hospital affiliated with Weill Medical College of Cornell University, it offers the latest innovations in medical, surgical and diagnostic techniques. Methodist also maintains various joint programs with Baylor College of Medicine. The hospital, one of only a handful in Texas recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of America's Best Hospitals, is among the country's largest non-profit health care providers. Its medical staff, meanwhile, include dozens of physicians listed in The Best Doctors in America. Methodist is a recognized leader in the following specialties: Cardiology and Cardiovascular surgery (pioneered by famed heart surgeon Dr. Michael E. DeBakey) Cancer Diabetes and Endocrinology Geriatric Care Nephrology/Kidney Disease Neurology and Neurosurgery Obstetrics/Gynecology Ophthalmology Organ Transplants Orthopedics Otolaryngology Psychiatry Pulmonology Rheumatology Urology